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Military Surplus

Maybe

The top 5 brands take only 40% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 0.3% of searches, so Military Surplus is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 28% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$211K/yr2.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
-24.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
32%top-5 click share · 44 brands · 112 sellers

Flapen Score

Military Surplus against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Military Surplus is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Military Surplus market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Military Surplus 2.4M times last year and spent an estimated $211K. The top 5 brands take 40% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -24.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $211K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-24.1%
Conversion, latest week
0.3%
Market size, estimated
$211Ka year
Peak month
December1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
military496K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $32.66.

Listings sell for $32.66 on average, from $5.71 to $89.62. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $32.66 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$32.66inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.71–$89.62
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$3K
Returns
2.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #348 within Airsoft. It carries 8,138 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.9%
Average rank
#348in Airsoft
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,138per listing
Listings tracked
63

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 53 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
53 months

Products

Top Military Surplus 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 32% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

44 falling

Sellers

112

Top-5 brand share

40%

Top 20: 78%

Top-5 click share

32%

Top 20: 64%

Open market

56%

  • Brand 112%
  • Brand 210%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Military Surplus search demand

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

60K40KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Military Surplus search terms shoppers use

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

  • military496K/yr
  • military surplus507K/yr
  • airsoft gear351K/yr
  • airsoft accessories217K/yr
  • army gear145K/yr
  • tactical accessories115K/yr
  • militar68K/yr
  • tactical accessories for men55K/yr
  • tactical equipment52K/yr
  • military accessories45K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Military Surplus

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.2%of orders come back
“Extremely small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”13% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Military Surplus questions

Answered from the same tracked data.