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8mm Hex Socket

Fail

Shoppers spend only $62K a year here, so 8mm Hex Socket is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 7,340 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$62K/yr40K searches / yr
90-day growth
+16.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
72%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 34 sellers

Flapen Score

8mm Hex Socket against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, 8mm Hex Socket is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The 8mm Hex Socket market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for 8mm Hex Socket 40K times last year and spent an estimated $62K. The top 5 brands take 84% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

12.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 40K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 12.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +16.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $62K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
40K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+16.1%
Conversion, latest week
12.5%
Market size, estimated
$62Ka year
Top search term
8mm hex socket18K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.20.

Listings sell for $12.20 on average, from $5.62 to $42.52. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $12.20 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.20under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.62–$42.52
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
2.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #48 within Sockets & Socket Sets. It carries 3,201 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.8%
Average rank
#48in Sockets & Socket Sets
Average rating
4.69 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,201per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
62 months

Products

Top 8mm Hex Socket 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 72% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$6K$12K$19K$25K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

34

Top-5 brand share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • TEKTON41%
  • Capri Tools16%
  • BLACKROBOT11%
  • LEXIVON8%
  • ELEAD8%
  • JEUCLEL7%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 9%)

Demand

8mm Hex Socket search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

1K600May '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26Jun '26Jun '26Jul '26Jul '26Jul '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top 8mm Hex Socket search terms shoppers use

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

  • 8mm hex socket18K/yr
  • 8mm allen socket12K/yr
  • 8mm hex bit7K/yr
  • 8mm hex4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about 8mm Hex Socket

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
30%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
2.6%of orders come back
“Medium quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”30% 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 8mm Hex Socket questions

Answered from the same tracked data.