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Desoldering Gun

Fail

Demand is soft, at -15.7% this quarter, so Desoldering Gun is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 4,568 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · on the category median
Market size
$792K/yr205K searches / yr
90-day growth
-15.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 73 sellers

Flapen Score

Desoldering Gun against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Desoldering Gun market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Desoldering Gun 205K times last year and spent an estimated $792K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 205K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -15.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $792K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
205K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-15.7%
Conversion, latest week
4.3%
Market size, estimated
$792Ka year
Peak month
January1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
desoldering gun110K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $89.72.

Listings sell for $89.72 on average, from $15.81 to $270.19. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $89.72 that is $22K to $45K a year per listing.

Average price
$89.72inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$15.81–$270.19
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$22K–$45K
Returns
2.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

79% 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 #197 within Welding & Soldering. It carries 701 reviews at 4.31 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#197in Welding & Soldering
Average rating
4.31 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
701per listing
Listings tracked
19

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 50 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
50 months

Products

Top Desoldering Gun 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 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$79K$158K$238K$317K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

73

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • YIHUA39%
  • Hakko32%
  • WEP11%
  • zycllycx5%
  • Cilehall4%
  • VIRALLOY2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 7%)

Demand

Desoldering Gun search demand

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

6K4KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Desoldering Gun search terms shoppers use

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

  • desoldering gun110K/yr
  • desoldering station32K/yr
  • desoldering iron21K/yr
  • hakko fr-30113K/yr
  • hakko desoldering gun15K/yr
  • desolder gun6K/yr
  • hakko desoldering3K/yr
  • hakko fr3013K/yr
  • desoldering pump electric2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Desoldering Gun

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Heating”
2.7%of orders come back
“And its heating power was not enough”
A buyer, on “Heating”16% 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 Desoldering Gun questions

Answered from the same tracked data.