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Sliding Shorts

Fail

Demand is soft, at -27.1% this quarter, so Sliding Shorts 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
$165K/yr359K searches / yr
90-day growth
-27.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
30%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 50 sellers

Flapen Score

Sliding Shorts against its category

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

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

Market

The Sliding Shorts market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Sliding Shorts 359K times last year and spent an estimated $165K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–May. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 359K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -27.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $165K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
359K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-27.1%
Conversion, latest week
2.4%
Market size, estimated
$165Ka year
Peak month
March5.9× the quietest month
Top search term
sliding shorts57K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $19.30.

Listings sell for $19.30 on average, from $9.09 to $54.22. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $19.30 that is $2K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$19.30inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.09–$54.22
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$5K
Returns
5.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #552 within Baseball. It carries 1,243 reviews at 4.62 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.0%
Average rank
#552in Baseball
Average rating
4.62 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,243per listing
Listings tracked
64

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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Sliding Shorts products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 25, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 30% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$5K$10K$15K$20K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

50

Est. top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

30%

Top 20: 66%

Open market

10%

  • Youper53%
  • COOLOMG13%
  • KOOPOW11%
  • Franklin Sports5%
  • Marucci4%
  • Under Armour4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (10 brands, 10%)

Demand

Sliding Shorts search demand

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

15K10KHoliday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.9×

Search terms

Top Sliding Shorts search terms shoppers use

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

  • sliding shorts57K/yr
  • baseball sliding shorts58K/yr
  • sliding shorts baseball youth32K/yr
  • youth sliding shorts29K/yr
  • sliding shorts baseball adult19K/yr
  • mens sliding shorts baseball16K/yr
  • baseball sliding pants15K/yr
  • youth sliding shorts with cup14K/yr
  • boys sliding shorts13K/yr
  • mens baseball sliding shorts14K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sliding Shorts

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
5.5%of orders come back
“they are way too big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”22% 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 Sliding Shorts questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data