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Mary Janes

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 5% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 0.2% of searches, so Mary Janes is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 4% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +16 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$715K/yr10.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
+17.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
5%top-5 click share · 154 brands · 242 sellers

Flapen Score

Mary Janes against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Mary Janes is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mary Janes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mary Janes 10.2M times last year and spent an estimated $715K. The top 5 brands take 33% of clicks. Demand peaks in May–Oct. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 10.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +17.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $715K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
10.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+17.3%
Conversion, latest week
0.2%
Market size, estimated
$715Ka year
Peak month
May2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
mary janes1.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $37.07.

Listings sell for $37.07 on average, from $8.51 to $149.07. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $37.07 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$37.07inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.51–$149.07
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
8.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

93% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #721 within Flats. It carries 1,120 reviews at 4.30 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.8%
Average rank
#721in Flats
Average rating
4.30 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,120per listing
Listings tracked
592

04 · Newcomers

62 of last year's 257 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

257 products launched here in the last 12 months. 62 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
257
Successful launches
62Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Mary Janes 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

154 rising

Sellers

242

Top-5 brand share

33%

Top 20: 63%

Top-5 click share

5%

Top 20: 17%

Open market

73%

  • Brand 17%
  • Brand 26%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%

Demand

Mary Janes search demand

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

250K150KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Mary Janes search terms shoppers use

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

  • mary janes1.4M/yr
  • mary jane flats998K/yr
  • mesh flats476K/yr
  • mary jane sneakers411K/yr
  • mary jane heels697K/yr
  • brown flats509K/yr
  • ballerina flats249K/yr
  • black ballet flats448K/yr
  • nude flats326K/yr
  • mary jane shoes449K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mary Janes

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

34%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
27%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
8.7%of orders come back
“Did not fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”27% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Mary Janes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.