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Handheld Shop Vac

Fail

The top 5 products take 80% of clicks, so Handheld Shop Vac is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 6,968 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −6 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$141K/yr63K searches / yr
90-day growth
+19.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
80%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 86 sellers

Flapen Score

Handheld Shop Vac against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Handheld Shop Vac is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Handheld Shop Vac market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Handheld Shop Vac 63K times last year and spent an estimated $141K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–Jul. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 63K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +19.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $141K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
63K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+19.0%
Conversion, latest week
4.1%
Market size, estimated
$141Ka year
Peak month
April2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
handheld shop vac20K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $54.78.

Listings sell for $54.78 on average, from $9.96 to $119.58. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $54.78 that is $5K to $14K a year per listing.

Average price
$54.78inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.96–$119.58
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$14K
Returns
3.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% 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 #32 within Power Tools. It carries 14,854 reviews at 4.42 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#32in Power Tools
Average rating
4.42 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
14,854per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 30 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top Handheld Shop Vac products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 30, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 80% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$21K$42K$64K$85K1001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 flat

Sellers

86

Est. top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • WORKSHOP Wet/Dry Vacs49%
  • CRAFTSMAN18%
  • DEWALT9%
  • Shop-Vac8%
  • S SMILEFIL5%
  • BLACK+DECKER5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 7%)

Demand

Handheld Shop Vac search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Handheld Shop Vac search terms shoppers use

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

  • handheld shop vac20K/yr
  • stinger wet dry vac19K/yr
  • hand held shop vac12K/yr
  • stinger vacuum7K/yr
  • stinger shop vac6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Handheld Shop Vac

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Suction”
14%of negative reviews mention “Suction”
3.5%of orders come back
“Poor suction power”
A buyer, on “Suction”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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Handheld Shop Vac questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data