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Wool

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.7% of searches, so Wool is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 4,037 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · on the category median
Market size
$311K/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
31%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 26 sellers

Flapen Score

Wool against its category

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

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Wool market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Wool 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated $311K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M 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 -10.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $311K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.2%
Conversion, latest week
0.7%
Market size, estimated
$311Ka year
Peak month
November2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
merino wool shirts for men150K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $40.80.

Listings sell for $40.80 on average, from $14.14 to $59.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $40.80 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$40.80inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$14.14–$59.39
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
5.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

99% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #419 within Clothing. It carries 1,802 reviews at 4.34 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
99%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#419in Clothing
Average rating
4.34 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,802per listing
Listings tracked
69

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 15 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

15 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 46 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
15
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
46 months

Products

Top Wool 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 31% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

26

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

31%

Top 20: 62%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 177%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 51%
  • Brand 61%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 6%)

Demand

Wool search demand

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

45K35KPrime Day '24Spike '24Black Friday '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Wool search terms shoppers use

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

  • merino wool shirts for men150K/yr
  • wool282K/yr
  • unbound merino82K/yr
  • woolx womens merino wool51K/yr
  • merino wool t shirts for men56K/yr
  • merino wool shirt50K/yr
  • merino tech53K/yr
  • merino tech women55K/yr
  • icebreaker merino73K/yr
  • merino wool t shirt22K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Wool

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Warmth”
10%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
5.4%of orders come back
“Too big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”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.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Wool questions

Answered from the same tracked data.