Shortwave Radio
FailBuyers convert on only 0.7% of searches, so Shortwave Radio is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 49 / 100Top 25% of 8,347 Electronics niches · +6 vs the category median of 4349
- Market size
- $572K/yr692K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -23.5%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 39%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 49 sellers
Flapen Score
Shortwave Radio against its category
The dotted line is the Electronics average. Past it, Shortwave Radio is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Shortwave Radio market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Shortwave Radio 692K times last year and spent an estimated $572K. The top 5 brands take 67% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 692K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -23.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $572K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 692K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -23.5%
- Conversion, latest week
- 0.7%
- Market size, estimated
- $572Ka year
- Peak month
- October1.5× the quietest month
- Top search term
- shortwave radio215K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $114.81.
Listings sell for $114.81 on average, from $9.90 to $477.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $114.81 that is $11K to $29K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $114.81above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $9.90–$477.49
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 4K–5K
- Units per listing a year
- 100–250
- Revenue per listing a year
- $11K–$29K
- Returns
- 3.9%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, 4.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #62 within Portable Audio & Video. It carries 1,433 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 78%
- Prime listings
- 95%
- Out of stock, average day
- 4.6%
- Average rank
- #62in Portable Audio & Video
- Average rating
- 4.28 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 1,433per listing
- Listings tracked
- 37
04 · Newcomers
5 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
8 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 51 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 8
- Successful launches
- 5Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 51 months
Products
Top Shortwave Radio 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 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.
Brands
20 falling
Sellers
49
Top-5 brand share
67%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
39%
Top 20: 78%
Open market
28%
- Brand 134%
- Brand 210%
- Brand 39%
- Brand 48%
- Brand 57%
- Brand 65%
Demand
Shortwave Radio search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×
Search terms
Top Shortwave Radio search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- shortwave radio215K/yr
- portable shortwave radios56K/yr
- shortwave radio receiver67K/yr
- short wave radio57K/yr
- short wave radios all world band49K/yr
- shortwave radios with best reception28K/yr
- tecsun26K/yr
- sw radio25K/yr
- tecsun pl-33018K/yr
- grundig radio23K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shortwave Radio
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Absolute Garbage”
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.
15 topics
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