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Wire Cutters

Maybe

Shoppers spend $2.6M a year here. But the average product has 4,245 reviews to catch up to, so Wire Cutters is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 4% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +15 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$2.6M/yr2.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+5.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 118 sellers

Flapen Score

Wire Cutters against its category

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

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Wire Cutters market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Wire Cutters 2.0M times last year and spent an estimated $2.6M. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

10.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 2.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 10.6% 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 $2.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+5.5%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
$2.6Ma year
Peak month
November1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
wire cutters799K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.51.

Listings sell for $12.51 on average, from $4.17 to $30.65. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At $12.51 that is $75K to $100K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.51under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.17–$30.65
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
$75K–$100K
Returns
1.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

70% 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 #11 within Cutters. It carries 4,245 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
70%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#11in Cutters
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,245per listing
Listings tracked
33

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 53 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Wire Cutters 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 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$132K$265K$397K$529K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

22 flat

Sellers

118

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

33%

  • BOENFU20%
  • WORKPRO16%
  • BOOSDEN15%
  • KLEIN TOOLS7%
  • IRWIN4%
  • IGAN4%

Demand

Wire Cutters search demand

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

45K35KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Wire Cutters search terms shoppers use

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

  • wire cutters799K/yr
  • wire cutter204K/yr
  • wire cutters heavy duty156K/yr
  • side cutters128K/yr
  • diagonal cutters108K/yr
  • dykes56K/yr
  • cutting pliers59K/yr
  • pinzas para cortar alambre47K/yr
  • heavy duty wire cutters47K/yr
  • wire cutters for crafting59K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Wire Cutters

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.4%of orders come back
“Lack of quality control”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”20% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Wire Cutters questions

Answered from the same tracked data.