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Old South Hats

Fail

Buyers convert on only 1.1% of searches, so Old South Hats is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 8,414 of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · on the category median
Market size
$90K/yr248K searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
24%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 161 sellers

Flapen Score

Old South Hats against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Old South Hats is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Old South Hats market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Old South Hats 248K times last year and spent an estimated $90K. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 248K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $90K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
248K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.4%
Conversion, latest week
1.1%
Market size, estimated
$90Ka year
Peak month
December5.4× the quietest month
Top search term
sitka hat142K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $33.25.

Listings sell for $33.25 on average, from $15.67 to $57.90. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $33.25 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$33.25inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$15.67–$57.90
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$3K
Returns
2.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

78% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 17.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #9,160 within Baseball Caps. It carries 701 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
78%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
17.8%
Average rank
#9,160in Baseball Caps
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
701per listing
Listings tracked
76

04 · Newcomers

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

6 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
6
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Old South Hats 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 rising

Sellers

161

Top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

24%

Top 20: 62%

Open market

14%

  • Brand 169%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (15 brands, 14%)

Demand

Old South Hats search demand

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

20K15KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.4×

Search terms

Top Old South Hats search terms shoppers use

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

  • sitka hat142K/yr
  • southern hats15K/yr
  • sitka hats for men17K/yr
  • southern hats for men9K/yr
  • sitka hats15K/yr
  • old south hats12K/yr
  • southern hat7K/yr
  • sitka trucker hat8K/yr
  • american fetcher hat6K/yr
  • old south apparel9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Old South Hats

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
25%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.6%of orders come back
“Tight Fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”25% 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 Old South Hats questions

Answered from the same tracked data.