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7018 Welding Rod 1/8

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.8% of orders. But demand is soft, at -17.0% this quarter, so 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 39% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +2 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$320K/yr85K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

7018 Welding Rod 1/8 against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 85K times last year and spent an estimated $320K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

6.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 85K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 6.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $320K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
85K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.0%
Conversion, latest week
6.9%
Market size, estimated
$320Ka year
Peak month
April1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
7018 welding rod 1/832K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $53.97.

Listings sell for $53.97 on average, from $10.15 to $181.86. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $53.97 that is $5K to $13K a year per listing.

Average price
$53.97inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$10.15–$181.86
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$13K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 76% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #27 within Welding & Soldering. It carries 533 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
76%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#27in Welding & Soldering
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
533per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 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 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$32K$64K$96K$128K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

16

Top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

10%

  • ARCCAPTAIN35%
  • YESWELDER18%
  • METAL MARLIN17%
  • WISUNO8%
  • Hy-weld8%
  • HYW Products4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 10%)

Demand

7018 Welding Rod 1/8 search demand

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

2K1KSpike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 search terms shoppers use

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

  • 7018 welding rod 1/832K/yr
  • welding rods 701818K/yr
  • 7018 welding rod19K/yr
  • 70184K/yr
  • e7018 welding rod 1/83K/yr
  • e7018 welding rod4K/yr
  • 7018 welding rods3K/yr
  • 1/8 7018 welding rod2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about 7018 Welding Rod 1/8

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.8%of orders come back
“rods of poor quality would not buy again”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”20% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common 7018 Welding Rod 1/8 questions

Answered from the same tracked data.