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Plumbing Solder

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Plumbing Solder 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
$131K/yr57K searches / yr
90-day growth
-30.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 81 sellers

Flapen Score

Plumbing Solder against its category

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

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

Market

The Plumbing Solder market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plumbing Solder 57K times last year and spent an estimated $131K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

10.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 57K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 10.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -30.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $131K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
57K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-30.3%
Conversion, latest week
10.1%
Market size, estimated
$131Ka year
Peak month
January1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
plumbing solder30K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $22.50.

Listings sell for $22.50 on average, from $5.54 to $46.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $22.50 that is $2K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$22.50inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.54–$46.92
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$6K
Returns
1.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #290 within Welding & Soldering. It carries 404 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.8%
Average rank
#290in Welding & Soldering
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
404per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 68 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
68 months

Products

Top Plumbing Solder 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 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$7K$13K$20K$26K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

81

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

2%

  • Oatey43%
  • AIM34%
  • Essmetuin13%
  • Dorman3%
  • ComStar3%
  • Keymarx1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Demand

Plumbing Solder search demand

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

2K1KPrime Day '25Spike '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Plumbing Solder search terms shoppers use

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

  • plumbing solder30K/yr
  • copper pipe solder13K/yr
  • solder for copper pipe6K/yr
  • solder plumbing3K/yr
  • oatey solder3K/yr
  • pipe solder3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plumbing Solder

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
19%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
1.6%of orders come back
“Did not work”
A buyer, on “Functionality-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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plumbing Solder questions

Answered from the same tracked data.