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Spool Gun

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.4% of searches, so Spool Gun 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
$76K/yr77K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 54 sellers

Flapen Score

Spool Gun against its category

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

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

Market

The Spool Gun market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Spool Gun 77K times last year and spent an estimated $76K. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

0.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 77K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $76K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
77K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.5%
Conversion, latest week
0.4%
Market size, estimated
$76Ka year
Peak month
January1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
spool gun19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $234.57.

Listings sell for $234.57 on average, from $44.99 to $817.63. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500 to 750 a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $234.57 that is $0 to $23K a year per listing.

Average price
$234.57above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$44.99–$817.63
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
500–750
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$23K
Returns
3.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #601 within Welding & Soldering. It carries 135 reviews at 3.87 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
8.0%
Average rank
#601in Welding & Soldering
Average rating
3.87 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
135per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 10 launches as successful.

10 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 46 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
10
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
46 months

Products

Top Spool Gun 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 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$4K$8K$11K$15K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)3 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

54

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

19%

  • YESWELDER29%
  • VEVOR15%
  • ARCCAPTAIN15%
  • TOOLIOM9%
  • Hasweld7%
  • Reboot5%

Demand

Spool Gun search demand

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

2K2KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Spool Gun search terms shoppers use

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

  • spool gun19K/yr
  • aluminum spool gun13K/yr
  • spool gun for aluminum welding12K/yr
  • yeswelder spool gun5K/yr
  • lincoln spool gun5K/yr
  • yes welder spool gun4K/yr
  • spool gun welder5K/yr
  • aluminum spool gun welder4K/yr
  • lincoln spool gun aluminum3K/yr
  • lincoln aluminum spool gun3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Spool Gun

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
24%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
3.7%of orders come back
“Less than a week in, stick, tig, and the plasma cutter stopped working”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”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 Spool Gun questions

Answered from the same tracked data.