Drive Shaft
MaybeThe top 5 products take only 5% of clicks. But prices span $14.01–$1031.39, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Drive Shaft is a Maybe.
- Flapen Score
- 55 / 100Top 23% of 7,287 Automotive niches · +6 vs the category median of 4955
- Market size
- $1.0M/yr466K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -9.1%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 5%top-5 click share · 71 brands · 173 sellers
Flapen Score
Drive Shaft against its category
The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Drive Shaft is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Drive Shaft market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Drive Shaft 466K times last year and spent an estimated $1.0M. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.
01 · Demand
An estimated 1.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 466K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.0M a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 466K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -9.1%
- Conversion, latest week
- 1.0%
- Market size, estimated
- $1.0Ma year
- Peak month
- March1.2× the quietest month
- Top search term
- drive shaft149K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $214.27.
Listings sell for $214.27 on average, from $14.01 to $1031.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $214.27 that is $0 to $21K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $214.27above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $14.01–$1031.39
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 4K–5K
- Units per listing a year
- 0–100
- Revenue per listing a year
- $0–$21K
- Returns
- 7.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is low.
87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 86% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,534 within Transmission & Drive Train. It carries 34 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 87%
- Prime listings
- 86%
- Out of stock, average day
- 8.6%
- Average rank
- #1,534in Transmission & Drive Train
- Average rating
- 4.28 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 34per listing
- Listings tracked
- 602
04 · Newcomers
2 of last year's 68 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
68 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 68
- Successful launches
- 2Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 49 months
Products
Top Drive Shaft products & what they sell for
Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.
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Competition
Competition: brands, sellers & click share
The top 5 products take only 5% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.
Brands
71 falling
Sellers
173
Top-5 brand share
60%
Top 20: 87%
Top-5 click share
5%
Top 20: 15%
Open market
59%
- Brand 125%
- Brand 25%
- Brand 34%
- Brand 43%
- Brand 52%
- Brand 62%
Demand
Drive Shaft search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×
Search terms
Top Drive Shaft search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- drive shaft149K/yr
- driveshaft95K/yr
- front drive shaft53K/yr
- rear drive shaft41K/yr
- eje de transmisin delantero21K/yr
- front driveshaft21K/yr
- rear driveshaft20K/yr
- automotive replacement drive shaft assemblies11K/yr
- rear drive shaft assembly9K/yr
- driveshaft assembly7K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Drive Shaft
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“they broke within a few”
Every topic
Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.
Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.
17 topics
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FAQ
Common Drive Shaft questions
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