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Small Vice Grips

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Small Vice Grips is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 7,340 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$60K/yr72K searches / yr
90-day growth
+6.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Small Vice Grips against its category

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

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Small Vice Grips market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Small Vice Grips 72K times last year and spent an estimated $60K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

7.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 72K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 7.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +6.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $60K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
72K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+6.7%
Conversion, latest week
7.6%
Market size, estimated
$60Ka year
Top search term
small vice grips19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $10.92.

Listings sell for $10.92 on average, from $6.49 to $22.23. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $10.92 that is $3K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$10.92under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.49–$22.23
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$5K
Returns
1.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

62% 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 #62 within Cutters. It carries 1,072 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
62%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#62in Cutters
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,072per listing
Listings tracked
13

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 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 65 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
65 months

Products

Top Small Vice Grips 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 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$3K$6K$9K$12K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

55

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

1%

  • WORKPRO47%
  • IRWIN24%
  • KLEIN TOOLS12%
  • GRIP GRAND RAPIDS INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS7%
  • uvbws6%
  • Hoteche2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Small Vice Grips search demand

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

2K1KNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.1× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Small Vice Grips search terms shoppers use

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

  • small vice grips19K/yr
  • mini vice grips18K/yr
  • mini vise grips10K/yr
  • small vise grips10K/yr
  • mini locking pliers8K/yr
  • small locking pliers5K/yr
  • small vice grips mini3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Small Vice Grips

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
42%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.3%of orders come back
“They are slightly shorter”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”42% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Small Vice Grips questions

Answered from the same tracked data.