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Plate Compactor

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $2.4M a year here. But products sell for $487.31 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Plate Compactor 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
$2.4M/yr379K searches / yr
90-day growth
+22.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 27 sellers

Flapen Score

Plate Compactor against its category

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

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

Market

The Plate Compactor market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plate Compactor 379K times last year and spent an estimated $2.4M. The top 5 brands take 71% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 379K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +22.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $2.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
379K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+22.8%
Conversion, latest week
1.3%
Market size, estimated
$2.4Ma year
Peak month
May2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
plate compactor156K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $487.31.

Listings sell for $487.31 on average, from $39.84 to $1244.45. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $487.31 that is $49K to $122K a year per listing.

Average price
$487.31above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$39.84–$1244.45
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$49K–$122K
Returns
1.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 77% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #63 within Power Tools. It carries 155 reviews at 4.09 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
77%
Out of stock, average day
1.0%
Average rank
#63in Power Tools
Average rating
4.09 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
155per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 7 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Plate Compactor 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 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$242K$483K$725K$967K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 falling

Sellers

27

Est. top-5 brand share

71%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 97%

Open market

24%

  • VEVOR40%
  • WEN9%
  • SuperHandy7%
  • EVOLUTION7%
  • BILT HARD7%
  • Stark USA6%

Demand

Plate Compactor search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Plate Compactor search terms shoppers use

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

  • plate compactor156K/yr
  • compactor59K/yr
  • compactadora de tierra27K/yr
  • soil compactor18K/yr
  • plate compactor gas10K/yr
  • dirt compactor13K/yr
  • aplanadora de tierra11K/yr
  • vevor plate compactor8K/yr
  • compactor machine14K/yr
  • ground compactor8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plate Compactor

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Compactness”
24%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
1.8%of orders come back
“Broke after three uses”
A buyer, on “Durability”24% 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 Plate Compactor 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