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Water Heater Drain Valve

Fail

Demand is soft, at -31.9% this quarter, so Water Heater Drain Valve is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 6,968 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −6 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$55K/yr46K searches / yr
90-day growth
-31.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
59%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

Water Heater Drain Valve against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Water Heater Drain Valve is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Water Heater Drain Valve market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Water Heater Drain Valve 46K times last year and spent an estimated $55K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 46K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -31.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $55K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
46K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-31.9%
Conversion, latest week
4.6%
Market size, estimated
$55Ka year
Top search term
water heater drain valve31K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $26.06.

Listings sell for $26.06 on average, from $11.04 to $39.65. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $26.06 that is $3K to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$26.06inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$11.04–$39.65
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$7K
Returns
2.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #7,096 within Plumbing. It carries 271 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.3%
Average rank
#7,096in Plumbing
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
271per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 4 of last year's 5 launches as successful.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 4 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Water Heater Drain Valve 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 59% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$3K$5K$8K$11K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

16

Top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Rheem20%
  • House Mods16%
  • Sediment Buster14%
  • WHK13%
  • HQMPC11%
  • ZGTools10%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 16%)

Demand

Water Heater Drain Valve search demand

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

8K6KSpike '26FebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 11.2× · 6 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Water Heater Drain Valve search terms shoppers use

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

  • water heater drain valve31K/yr
  • hot water heater drain valve6K/yr
  • water heater valve5K/yr
  • water heater drain5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Water Heater Drain Valve

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Advertised Vs Actual Product”
11%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
2.7%of orders come back
“The quality is not very strong”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”11% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Water Heater Drain Valve questions

Answered from the same tracked data.