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Polo Shorts

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.2% of searches, so Polo Shorts 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
$25K/yr353K searches / yr
90-day growth
+58.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
15%top-5 click share · 29 brands · 84 sellers

Flapen Score

Polo Shorts against its category

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

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

Market

The Polo Shorts market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Polo Shorts 353K times last year and spent an estimated $25K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

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

Shoppers searched for this 353K 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 +58.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $25K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
353K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+58.4%
Conversion, latest week
0.2%
Market size, estimated
$25Ka year
Top search term
lacoste shorts for men65K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $41.96.

Listings sell for $41.96 on average, from $10.53 to $139.98. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 750 to 1K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $41.96 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$41.96inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$10.53–$139.98
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
750–1K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
6.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

59% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,667 within Active Shorts. It carries 4,217 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
59%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
12.3%
Average rank
#2,667in Active Shorts
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,217per listing
Listings tracked
152

04 · Newcomers

6 of last year's 38 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

38 products launched here in the last 12 months. 6 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
38
Successful launches
6Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Polo 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 15% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

29 rising

Sellers

84

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

15%

Top 20: 38%

Open market

15%

  • Brand 145%
  • Brand 221%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (23 brands, 15%)

Search terms

Top Polo Shorts search terms shoppers use

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

  • lacoste shorts for men65K/yr
  • polo shorts59K/yr
  • ralph lauren shorts for men29K/yr
  • lacoste shorts31K/yr
  • ralph lauren shorts18K/yr
  • polo ralph lauren shorts16K/yr
  • polo ralph lauren shorts for men14K/yr
  • polo shorts for men ralph lauren17K/yr
  • lacoste men shorts15K/yr
  • polo ralph lauren men shorts20K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Polo Shorts

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
27%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
6.5%of orders come back
“Runs large”
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 Polo Shorts questions

Answered from the same tracked data.