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Maybe

Shoppers spend $8.5M a year here. But the average product has 8,657 reviews to catch up to, so Lock is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 10% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$8.5M/yr9.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
36%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 185 sellers

Flapen Score

Lock against its category

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

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lock market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lock 9.0M times last year and spent an estimated $8.5M. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

8.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 9.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $8.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
9.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.7%
Conversion, latest week
8.2%
Market size, estimated
$8.5Ma year
Peak month
August1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
lock2.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.47.

Listings sell for $11.47 on average, from $5.53 to $35.04. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 800K units or more a year. The average listing sells 15,000 to 20,000 of them. At $11.47 that is $172K to $229K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.47under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.53–$35.04
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
800K or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
15,000–20,000
Revenue per listing a year
$172K–$229K
Returns
2.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% 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 Padlocks & Hasps. It carries 8,657 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#18in Padlocks & Hasps
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,657per listing
Listings tracked
54

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 49 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
49 months

Products

Top Lock 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 only 36% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$256K$512K$768K$1.0M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 falling

Sellers

185

Top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

36%

Top 20: 75%

Open market

8%

  • Master Lock37%
  • Puroma36%
  • Amazon Basics9%
  • ZHEGE5%
  • Fayleeko3%
  • SEPOX2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (11 brands, 8%)

Demand

Lock search demand

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

300K200KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Lock search terms shoppers use

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

  • lock2.1M/yr
  • locker lock1.3M/yr
  • combination lock948K/yr
  • padlock629K/yr
  • master lock564K/yr
  • locks493K/yr
  • locks with keys304K/yr
  • padlock with key302K/yr
  • gym lock324K/yr
  • combo lock232K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lock

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Locking Mechanism”
25%of negative reviews mention “Locking Mechanism”
2.2%of orders come back
“Defective Lock”
A buyer, on “Locking Mechanism”25% 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 Lock questions

Answered from the same tracked data.