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Rod Bearings

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $57K a year here, so Rod Bearings is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 4,157 of 7,287 Automotive niches · −2 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$57K/yr67K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
24%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 98 sellers

Flapen Score

Rod Bearings against its category

The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Rod Bearings is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Rod Bearings market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Rod Bearings 67K times last year and spent an estimated $57K. The top 5 brands take 78% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 67K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $57K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
67K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.1%
Conversion, latest week
2.0%
Market size, estimated
$57Ka year
Peak month
April1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
rod bearings21K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $41.61.

Listings sell for $41.61 on average, from $5.46 to $127.29. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $41.61 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$41.61inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.46–$127.29
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1K–2K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
4.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

64% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #3,386 within Performance Parts & Accessories. It carries 40 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
64%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
1.1%
Average rank
#3,386in Performance Parts & Accessories
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
40per listing
Listings tracked
83

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 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
6
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Rod Bearings 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 24% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

98

Top-5 brand share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

24%

Top 20: 49%

Open market

19%

  • Brand 128%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 412%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Rod Bearings search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

2K1KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Rod Bearings search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • rod bearings21K/yr
  • main bearings9K/yr
  • rod bearing set8K/yr
  • connecting rod bearings9K/yr
  • connecting rod bearing set6K/yr
  • main bearing set6K/yr
  • rod bearing5K/yr
  • crankshaft bearings4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Rod Bearings

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

34%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
30%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
4.4%of orders come back
“Quality control is lacking”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”30% of negative reviews mention the same topic

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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Rod Bearings questions

Answered from the same tracked data.