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Sluice Box

Maybe

The average product has only 217 reviews. But demand is soft, at -32.1% this quarter, so Sluice Box is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Ranks 5,174 of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · −3 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$503K/yr381K searches / yr
90-day growth
-32.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
28%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 31 sellers

Flapen Score

Sluice Box against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Sluice Box market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Sluice Box 381K times last year and spent an estimated $503K. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 381K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -32.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $503K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
381K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-32.1%
Conversion, latest week
1.2%
Market size, estimated
$503Ka year
Peak month
March1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
sluice box103K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $113.85.

Listings sell for $113.85 on average, from $11.87 to $614.56. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $113.85 that is $0 to $11K a year per listing.

Average price
$113.85above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$11.87–$614.56
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–$11K
Returns
2.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

93% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 73% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #254 within Metal Detectors. It carries 217 reviews at 4.29 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
73%
Out of stock, average day
10.3%
Average rank
#254in Metal Detectors
Average rating
4.29 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
217per listing
Listings tracked
56

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 13 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

13 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 63 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
13
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
63 months

Products

Top Sluice Box 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 28% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

22 rising

Sellers

31

Top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

28%

Top 20: 70%

Open market

28%

  • Brand 126%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 313%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Sluice Box search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Sluice Box search terms shoppers use

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

  • sluice box103K/yr
  • gold sluice box75K/yr
  • sluice box for gold mining61K/yr
  • gold sluice44K/yr
  • sluice26K/yr
  • gold sluice equipment9K/yr
  • mini sluice box7K/yr
  • sluice boxes for gold prospecting6K/yr
  • sluice fox6K/yr
  • sluice box for gold5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sluice Box

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
18%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.8%of orders come back
“Classifier is a bit small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”18% 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 Sluice Box questions

Answered from the same tracked data.