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Period Shorts

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.8% of searches, so Period Shorts is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 37% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +3 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$103K/yr442K searches / yr
90-day growth
-3.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
28%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 25 sellers

Flapen Score

Period Shorts against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Period Shorts market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Period Shorts 442K times last year and spent an estimated $103K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 442K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -3.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $103K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
442K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-3.9%
Conversion, latest week
0.8%
Market size, estimated
$103Ka year
Peak month
June1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
period boxers81K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $28.20.

Listings sell for $28.20 on average, from $9.48 to $55.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $28.20 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$28.20inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.48–$55.39
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–$3K
Returns
3.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #3,210 within Lingerie. It carries 1,596 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.6%
Average rank
#3,210in Lingerie
Average rating
4.28 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,596per listing
Listings tracked
70

04 · Newcomers

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

5 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 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Period Shorts 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 28% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

25

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

28%

Top 20: 66%

Open market

10%

  • Brand 121%
  • Brand 221%
  • Brand 319%
  • Brand 418%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 10%)

Demand

Period Shorts search demand

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

12K8KPrime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Period Shorts search terms shoppers use

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

  • period boxers81K/yr
  • period boxers for women68K/yr
  • period shorts54K/yr
  • goat union period underwear35K/yr
  • period boy shorts26K/yr
  • period shorts for women29K/yr
  • period underwear boyshorts18K/yr
  • period sleep shorts14K/yr
  • period boyshorts for women18K/yr
  • period underwear boxers12K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Period Shorts

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

34%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
18%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
3.2%of orders come back
“run a little small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”18% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Period Shorts questions

Answered from the same tracked data.