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Smoking Gun

Maybe

An estimated 0.5% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -7.4% this quarter, so Smoking Gun is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 22% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +6 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$287K/yr146K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
55%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 34 sellers

Flapen Score

Smoking Gun against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Smoking Gun is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Smoking Gun market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Smoking Gun 146K times last year and spent an estimated $287K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 146K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $287K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
146K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.4%
Conversion, latest week
2.7%
Market size, estimated
$287Ka year
Peak month
December2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
smoke gun40K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $71.90.

Listings sell for $71.90 on average, from $19.65 to $208.20. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $71.90 that is $0 to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$71.90inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$19.65–$208.20
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$7K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 15.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,142 within Bar Tools & Drinkware. It carries 857 reviews at 4.35 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
15.4%
Average rank
#1,142in Bar Tools & Drinkware
Average rating
4.35 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
857per listing
Listings tracked
30

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 36 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Smoking Gun 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 55% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

23 falling

Sellers

34

Top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

55%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

31%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Smoking Gun search demand

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

7K5KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Smoking Gun search terms shoppers use

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

  • smoke gun40K/yr
  • smoking gun31K/yr
  • food smoker16K/yr
  • smoking gun food smoker14K/yr
  • smoke infuser10K/yr
  • smoker gun8K/yr
  • smoke gun for food7K/yr
  • kitchen smoker5K/yr
  • food smoker kit4K/yr
  • smoke infuser for food4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Smoking Gun

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Gifting Purpose”
26%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
0.5%of orders come back
“it barely worked”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”26% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Smoking Gun questions

Answered from the same tracked data.