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Cutting Wax

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Cutting Wax is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 6,589 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$114K/yr37K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 29 sellers

Flapen Score

Cutting Wax against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Cutting Wax is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cutting Wax market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cutting Wax 37K times last year and spent an estimated $114K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

17.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 37K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 17.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $114K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
37K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.5%
Conversion, latest week
17.1%
Market size, estimated
$114Ka year
Top search term
anchor lube10K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $17.99.

Listings sell for $17.99 on average, from $7.59 to $54.19. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $17.99 that is $13K to $18K a year per listing.

Average price
$17.99inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.59–$54.19
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$13K–$18K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

73% 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 #54 within Lubricants. It carries 678 reviews at 4.72 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#54in Lubricants
Average rating
4.72 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
678per listing
Listings tracked
11

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 89 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
89 months

Products

Top Cutting Wax 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 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$11K$23K$34K$45K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

29

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Anchorlube77%
  • Lubri-Cut10%
  • Relton4%
  • JD Commercial3%
  • CUT-EASE3%
  • Dreyoo2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Cutting Wax search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

800600Mar '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Cutting Wax search terms shoppers use

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

  • anchor lube10K/yr
  • anchorlube9K/yr
  • cutting wax4K/yr
  • cutting paste4K/yr
  • cutting paste for drilling metal3K/yr
  • anchorlube cutting fluid2K/yr
  • anchor lube cutting fluid2K/yr
  • anchor lube cutting paste2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cutting Wax

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

28%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Advertised Vs Actual Product”
0.4%of orders come back
“I know hard to believe it is actually the thing it says it is”
A buyer, on “Advertised Vs Actual Product”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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cutting Wax questions

Answered from the same tracked data.