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Belay Device

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Belay Device is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 5,499 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −5 vs the category median of 47
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.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

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.

6K4KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

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.

27%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
10%of negative reviews mention “Grip”
3.4%of orders come back
“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.”
A buyer, on “Grip”10% 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 Belay Device questions

Answered from the same tracked data.