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Gold Pan

Maybe

Products sell for $32.52 on average, inside the sweet spot. But demand is soft, at -7.1% this quarter, so Gold Pan is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Ranks 5,497 of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · −4 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$322K/yr216K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

Gold Pan against its category

The dotted line is the Patio, Lawn & Garden average. Past it, Gold Pan is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Gold Pan market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Gold Pan 216K times last year and spent an estimated $322K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 216K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $322K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
216K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.1%
Conversion, latest week
4.6%
Market size, estimated
$322Ka year
Peak month
July1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
gold pan160K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $32.52.

Listings sell for $32.52 on average, from $9.58 to $122.08. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $32.52 that is $8K to $16K a year per listing.

Average price
$32.52inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.58–$122.08
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
$8K–$16K
Returns
1.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

68% 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 #2,267 within Metal Detector Parts & Accessories. It carries 660 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#2,267in Metal Detector Parts & Accessories
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
660per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

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

3 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
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Gold Pan 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 16, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$16K$32K$48K$64K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

16

Est. top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

9%

  • SE27%
  • ASR Outdoor22%
  • Sluice Fox20%
  • DigNew10%
  • Garrett Metal Detectors6%
  • Estwing6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 9%)

Demand

Gold Pan search demand

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

5K3KPrime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Gold Pan search terms shoppers use

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

  • gold pan160K/yr
  • gold pans25K/yr
  • gold panning pan14K/yr
  • gold mining pan11K/yr
  • gold pans for gold mining7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Gold Pan

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.1%of orders come back
“size of bowls was a little small”
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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Gold Pan 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