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Framing Square

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.8% of orders. But demand is soft, at -0.3% this quarter, so Framing Square is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 21% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$276K/yr231K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 79 sellers

Flapen Score

Framing Square against its category

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

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Framing Square market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Framing Square 231K times last year and spent an estimated $276K. The top 5 brands take 70% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

5.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 231K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $276K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
231K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.3%
Conversion, latest week
5.5%
Market size, estimated
$276Ka year
Peak month
November1.1× the quietest month
Top search term
framing square172K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $21.75.

Listings sell for $21.75 on average, from $5.86 to $50.01. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $21.75 that is $5K to $11K a year per listing.

Average price
$21.75inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.86–$50.01
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$11K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #64 within Measuring & Layout Tools. It carries 2,000 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
1.1%
Average rank
#64in Measuring & Layout Tools
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,000per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
42 months

Products

Top Framing Square 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 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$28K$55K$83K$111K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 flat

Sellers

79

Top-5 brand share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

23%

  • KLEIN TOOLS24%
  • POWERTEC16%
  • Swanson Tool Co., Inc12%
  • Johnson11%
  • ALLWIN7%
  • IRWIN7%

Demand

Framing Square search demand

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

5K3KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.1×

Search terms

Top Framing Square search terms shoppers use

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

  • framing square172K/yr
  • carpenter square 24 inch10K/yr
  • aluminum framing square6K/yr
  • large square8K/yr
  • large framing square8K/yr
  • large carpenter square4K/yr
  • framers square3K/yr
  • framing square set3K/yr
  • framing squares4K/yr
  • big square3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Framing Square

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
19%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.8%of orders come back
“I could see this was not a well made item”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”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 Framing Square questions

Answered from the same tracked data.