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Flux Pen

Fail

Prices span $6.03–$15.85, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Flux Pen is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 6,173 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −4 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$162K/yr102K searches / yr
90-day growth
+17.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 12 sellers

Flapen Score

Flux Pen against its category

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

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Flux Pen market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Flux Pen 102K times last year and spent an estimated $162K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

17.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 102K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 17.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +17.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $162K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
102K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+17.4%
Conversion, latest week
17.3%
Market size, estimated
$162Ka year
Peak month
May2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
flux pen72K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.19.

Listings sell for $9.19 on average, from $6.03 to $15.85. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $9.19 that is $7K to $9K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.19under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.03–$15.85
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$7K–$9K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

64% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #51 within Welding & Soldering. It carries 2,451 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
64%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.0%
Average rank
#51in Welding & Soldering
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,451per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 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 64 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
64 months

Products

Top Flux Pen 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 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$16K$32K$49K$65K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

12

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Outus32%
  • QUIMTECH25%
  • Essmetuin14%
  • Chip Quik11%
  • BEEYUIHF6%
  • SRA Soldering Products4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 9%)

Demand

Flux Pen search demand

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

6K4KSpike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Flux Pen search terms shoppers use

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

  • flux pen72K/yr
  • solder flux pen15K/yr
  • soldering flux pen7K/yr
  • no clean flux pen5K/yr
  • rosin flux pen4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Flux Pen

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.7%of orders come back
“does leave a sticky residue that I don't want to leave on the board”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”14% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Flux Pen questions

Answered from the same tracked data.