Hone
MaybeProducts sell for $36.98 on average, inside the sweet spot. But demand is soft, at -18.3% this quarter, so Hone is a Maybe.
- Flapen Score
- 54 / 100Top 26% of 7,287 Automotive niches · +5 vs the category median of 4954
- Market size
- $467K/yr585K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -18.3%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 45%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 65 sellers
Flapen Score
Hone against its category
The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Hone is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Hone market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hone 585K times last year and spent an estimated $467K. The top 5 brands take 69% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.
01 · Demand
An estimated 2.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 585K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $467K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 585K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -18.3%
- Conversion, latest week
- 2.2%
- Market size, estimated
- $467Ka year
- Peak month
- January1.6× the quietest month
- Top search term
- hone365K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $36.98.
Listings sell for $36.98 on average, from $9.53 to $178.55. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $36.98 that is $9K to $18K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $36.98inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $9.53–$178.55
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 8K–10K
- Units per listing a year
- 250–500
- Revenue per listing a year
- $9K–$18K
- Returns
- 2.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is low.
77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #45 within Brake Tools. It carries 309 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 77%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 2.7%
- Average rank
- #45in Brake Tools
- Average rating
- 4.39 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 309per listing
- Listings tracked
- 31
04 · Newcomers
2 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
8 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
- 8
- Successful launches
- 2Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 53 months
Products
Top Hone 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 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
21 flat
Sellers
65
Top-5 brand share
69%
Top 20: 99%
Top-5 click share
45%
Top 20: 89%
Open market
27%
- Brand 123%
- Brand 217%
- Brand 317%
- Brand 46%
- Brand 55%
- Brand 64%
Demand
Hone search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×
Search terms
Top Hone search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- hone365K/yr
- cylinder hone88K/yr
- cylinder hone tool27K/yr
- hones26K/yr
- honing tool20K/yr
- engine cylinder hone9K/yr
- engine hone10K/yr
- cylinder honing tool10K/yr
- small cylinder hone5K/yr
- cylinder bore tool5K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hone
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Not top-tier quality”
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
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