- Flapen Score
- 42 / 100Ranks 5,499 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −5 vs the category median of 4742
- Market size
- $415K/yr197K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +1.8%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 49%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 51 sellers
Flapen Score
Belay Device against its category
The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Belay Device is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Belay Device market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Belay Device 197K times last year and spent an estimated $415K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 197K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $415K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 197K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +1.8%
- Conversion, latest week
- 2.6%
- Market size, estimated
- $415Ka year
- Peak month
- November1.5× the quietest month
- Top search term
- belay device54K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $79.87.
Listings sell for $79.87 on average, from $11.71 to $133.29. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $79.87 that is $8K to $20K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $79.87inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $11.71–$133.29
- 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
- $8K–$20K
- Returns
- 3.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is low.
87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #15 within Climbing. It carries 834 reviews at 4.73 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 87%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 1.5%
- Average rank
- #15in Climbing
- Average rating
- 4.73 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 834per listing
- Listings tracked
- 31
04 · Newcomers
0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 63 months on average, so the names here are established.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 1
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 63 months
Products
Top Belay Device 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 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
7 rising
Sellers
51
Top-5 brand share
98%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
49%
Top 20: 90%
Open market
1%
- Brand 164%
- Brand 226%
- Brand 35%
- Brand 42%
- Brand 51%
- Brand 61%
- Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)
Demand
Belay Device search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×
Search terms
Top Belay Device search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- belay device54K/yr
- grigri46K/yr
- petzl grigri16K/yr
- gri gri14K/yr
- grigri belay device16K/yr
- atc belay device13K/yr
- belay8K/yr
- gri gri petzl4K/yr
- climbing belay & rappel equipment5K/yr
- petzl reverso3K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Belay Device
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“The only downsides I've noticed are the rope slips a bit when taking the slack out of the rope. during the shuffle of sliding your brake hand back up the rope.”
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
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