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Mens High Waisted Pants

Fail

An estimated 14.3% of orders come back, so Mens High Waisted Pants is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 33% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +4 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$49K/yr584K searches / yr
90-day growth
+12.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
17%top-5 click share · 32 brands · 46 sellers

Flapen Score

Mens High Waisted Pants against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Mens High Waisted Pants is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mens High Waisted Pants market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mens High Waisted Pants 584K times last year and spent an estimated $49K. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 584K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +12.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $49K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
584K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+12.0%
Conversion, latest week
0.3%
Market size, estimated
$49Ka year
Top search term
pleated pants men80K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $29.87.

Listings sell for $29.87 on average, from $18.55 to $93.75. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $29.87 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$29.87inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$18.55–$93.75
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–$3K
Returns
14.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #219 within Pants. It carries 3,310 reviews at 4.16 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
2.2%
Average rank
#219in Pants
Average rating
4.16 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,310per listing
Listings tracked
135

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 37 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

37 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
37
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Mens High Waisted Pants 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 17% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

32 rising

Sellers

46

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 94%

Top-5 click share

17%

Top 20: 44%

Open market

33%

  • Brand 121%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Mens High Waisted Pants search demand

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

15K10KBlack Friday '25NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Mens High Waisted Pants search terms shoppers use

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

  • pleated pants men80K/yr
  • mens pleated dress pants68K/yr
  • mens pleated pants58K/yr
  • mens high waisted pants69K/yr
  • pleated trousers men42K/yr
  • gurkha pants men42K/yr
  • mens high waisted trousers26K/yr
  • high waisted pants men34K/yr
  • mens pleated trousers21K/yr
  • pleated dress pants men25K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mens High Waisted Pants

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
14.3%of orders come back
“Fit is loose”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”21% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Mens High Waisted Pants questions

Answered from the same tracked data.