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Channel Locks Plier

Maybe

Shoppers spend $3.5M a year here. But the products selling today already average 4.6★, so Channel Locks Plier is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
64
64 / 100
Top 3% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +16 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$3.5M/yr1.7M searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 230 sellers

Flapen Score

Channel Locks Plier against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Channel Locks Plier is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

64Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Channel Locks Plier market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Channel Locks Plier 1.7M times last year and spent an estimated $3.5M. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Flapen scores it 64 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

6.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 1.7M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 6.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +2.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $3.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.7M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.9%
Conversion, latest week
6.2%
Market size, estimated
$3.5Ma year
Peak month
November1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
channel locks plier495K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $34.91.

Listings sell for $34.91 on average, from $7.01 to $285.14. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At $34.91 that is $52K to $70K a year per listing.

Average price
$34.91inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.01–$285.14
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
$52K–$70K
Returns
1.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

62% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #39 within Pliers. It carries 2,786 reviews at 4.60 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
62%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
0.6%
Average rank
#39in Pliers
Average rating
4.60 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,786per listing
Listings tracked
52

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 5 of last year's 7 launches as successful.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 5 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 60 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
60 months

Products

Top Channel Locks Plier 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 only 34% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$106K$213K$319K$426K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

21 rising

Sellers

230

Top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 71%

Open market

27%

  • Channellock28%
  • CRAFTSMAN15%
  • IRWIN11%
  • WORKPRO8%
  • Amazon Basics6%
  • KLEIN TOOLS5%

Demand

Channel Locks Plier search demand

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

40K30KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Channel Locks Plier search terms shoppers use

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

  • channel locks plier495K/yr
  • channel locks179K/yr
  • channel locks plier set154K/yr
  • irwin tools99K/yr
  • adjustable pliers65K/yr
  • water pump pliers67K/yr
  • channel lock60K/yr
  • channellock pliers79K/yr
  • chanel locks43K/yr
  • irwin61K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Channel Locks Plier

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.1%of orders come back
“Disappointing quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”21% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Channel Locks Plier questions

Answered from the same tracked data.