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Padded Socks

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $56K a year here, so Padded Socks is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Top 46% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +1 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$56K/yr191K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 35 brands · 39 sellers

Flapen Score

Padded Socks against its category

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

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Padded Socks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Padded Socks 191K times last year and spent an estimated $56K. The top 5 brands take 52% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 191K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $56K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
191K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.9%
Conversion, latest week
1.9%
Market size, estimated
$56Ka year
Peak month
July1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
anti blister socks women48K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.18.

Listings sell for $15.18 on average, from $9.54 to $24.96. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $15.18 that is $0 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.18inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.54–$24.96
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–$2K
Returns
1.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #628 within Athletic Socks. It carries 10,779 reviews at 4.64 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
0.1%
Average rank
#628in Athletic Socks
Average rating
4.64 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
10,779per listing
Listings tracked
60

04 · Newcomers

11 of last year's 11 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

11 products launched here in the last 12 months. 11 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 46 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
11
Successful launches
11Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
46 months

Products

Top Padded Socks 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 37% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

35 rising

Sellers

39

Top-5 brand share

52%

Top 20: 89%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 68%

Open market

42%

  • Brand 114%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Padded Socks search demand

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

7K5KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Padded Socks search terms shoppers use

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

  • anti blister socks women48K/yr
  • socks like bombas but cheaper45K/yr
  • quick dry socks women9K/yr
  • cushion socks women padded11K/yr
  • bombas dupe10K/yr
  • athletic performance socks for women7K/yr
  • antiblister socks for women6K/yr
  • bombas dupes8K/yr
  • blister free socks women4K/yr
  • no blister socks women5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Padded Socks

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.7%of orders come back
“Size down”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”16% 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 Padded Socks questions

Answered from the same tracked data.