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Shop Vac

Maybe

Shoppers spend $26.0M a year here. But the average product has 6,035 reviews to catch up to, so Shop Vac 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
$26.0M/yr7.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
+11.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 121 sellers

Flapen Score

Shop Vac against its category

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

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

Market

The Shop Vac market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Shop Vac 7.6M times last year and spent an estimated $26.0M. The top 5 brands take 65% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

3.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 7.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +11.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $26.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
7.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+11.8%
Conversion, latest week
3.7%
Market size, estimated
$26.0Ma year
Peak month
July1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
shop vac3.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $92.56.

Listings sell for $92.56 on average, from $36.86 to $212.03. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At $92.56 that is $370K to $463K a year per listing.

Average price
$92.56inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$36.86–$212.03
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
$370K–$463K
Returns
4.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

98% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #33 within Power Tools. It carries 6,035 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
98%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.1%
Average rank
#33in Power Tools
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,035per listing
Listings tracked
48

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 35 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
35 months

Products

Top Shop Vac 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 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$780K$1.6M$2.3M$3.1M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 rising

Sellers

121

Top-5 brand share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 75%

Open market

25%

  • CRAFTSMAN16%
  • Vacmaster15%
  • DEWALT12%
  • STANLEY11%
  • Amazon Basics11%
  • Shop-Vac10%

Demand

Shop Vac search demand

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

250K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Shop Vac search terms shoppers use

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

  • shop vac3.1M/yr
  • shop vacuum wet and dry1.3M/yr
  • wet dry vacuum cleaner818K/yr
  • wet dry vacuum345K/yr
  • wet vac261K/yr
  • wet vacuum162K/yr
  • shop vacuum248K/yr
  • shopvac197K/yr
  • wet dry vac251K/yr
  • water vacuum92K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shop Vac

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Ease Of Cleaning”
9%of negative reviews mention “Suction”
4.3%of orders come back
“Doesn't suction”
A buyer, on “Suction”9% 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 Shop Vac questions

Answered from the same tracked data.