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Fish Tape

Maybe

Shoppers spend $2.1M a year here. But demand is soft, at +1.3% this quarter, so Fish Tape is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 27% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$2.1M/yr735K searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 74 sellers

Flapen Score

Fish Tape against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Fish Tape market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Fish Tape 735K times last year and spent an estimated $2.1M. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

6.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 735K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 6.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $2.1M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
735K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.3%
Conversion, latest week
6.6%
Market size, estimated
$2.1Ma year
Peak month
November1.1× the quietest month
Top search term
fish tape250K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $42.71.

Listings sell for $42.71 on average, from $9.65 to $184.38. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At $42.71 that is $85K to $107K a year per listing.

Average price
$42.71inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.65–$184.38
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
$85K–$107K
Returns
4.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

64% 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 #18 within Tools & Hardware. It carries 1,483 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
64%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#18in Tools & Hardware
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,483per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

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

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Fish Tape 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 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$208K$417K$625K$833K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

74

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 97%

Open market

14%

  • KLEIN TOOLS54%
  • DZDSBB12%
  • Southwire8%
  • RamPro5%
  • islewire4%
  • FTIHTRY4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 14%)

Demand

Fish Tape search demand

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

18K13KPrime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.1×

Search terms

Top Fish Tape search terms shoppers use

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

  • fish tape250K/yr
  • fish tape wire puller77K/yr
  • wire puller67K/yr
  • wire fishing tools54K/yr
  • electrical fish tape44K/yr
  • fiberglass fish tape39K/yr
  • wire snake27K/yr
  • wire fish tape17K/yr
  • milwaukee fish tape20K/yr
  • klein fish tape18K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fish Tape

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
19%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
4.3%of orders come back
“Break easily”
A buyer, on “Durability”19% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Fish Tape questions

Answered from the same tracked data.