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Ballast

Fail

The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks, so Ballast is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 7,617 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −8 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$532K/yr248K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 54 sellers

Flapen Score

Ballast against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Ballast is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Ballast market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Ballast 248K times last year and spent an estimated $532K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 248K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $532K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
248K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.6%
Conversion, latest week
4.5%
Market size, estimated
$532Ka year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
ballast45K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $48.10.

Listings sell for $48.10 on average, from $14.83 to $198.67. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $48.10 that is $36K to $48K a year per listing.

Average price
$48.10inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$14.83–$198.67
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$36K–$48K
Returns
3.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

82% 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 #8 within Ballasts. It carries 884 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
82%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#8in Ballasts
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
884per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Ballast products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$80K$160K$239K$319K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

54

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Robertson Worldwide72%
  • PHILIPS13%
  • eLegolight5%
  • OHLECTRIC3%
  • DXNQ2%
  • Troniz2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Ballast search demand

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

6K4KBlack Friday '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Ballast search terms shoppers use

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

  • ballast45K/yr
  • headlight ballast43K/yr
  • ballast for fluorescent light 2 lamp t823K/yr
  • hid ballast28K/yr
  • fluorescent light ballast14K/yr
  • t8 ballast9K/yr
  • ballast for fluorescent light 4 lamp t87K/yr
  • ballast for fluorescent light8K/yr
  • light ballast9K/yr
  • ballist5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Ballast

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
25%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
3.8%of orders come back
“Ballast did not work”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”25% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Ballast questions

Answered from the same tracked data.