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Colored Pens

Fail

Shoppers spend only $19K a year here, so Colored Pens is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 71 of 104 Arts & Crafts niches · −5 vs the category median of 52
Market size
$19K/yr48K searches / yr
90-day growth
+4.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
31%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 86 sellers

Flapen Score

Colored Pens against its category

The dotted line is the Arts & Crafts average. Past it, Colored Pens is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Colored Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Arab Emirates searched for Colored Pens 48K times last year and spent an estimated $19K. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

1.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 48K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Arab Emirates for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +4.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $19K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
48K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+4.2%
Conversion, latest week
1.4%
Market size, estimated
$19Ka year
Top search term
staedtler16K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $27.54.

Listings sell for $27.54 on average, from $3.88 to $72.62. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $27.54 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$27.54inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.88–$72.62
Amazon United Arab Emirates median price
$60.52across 3,090 niches
Units sold a year
2K–2K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$3K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United Arab Emirates median 1.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

31% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #316 within Arts & Crafts. It carries 7,553 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
31%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
7.8%
Average rank
#316in Arts & Crafts
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United Arab Emirates average 4.27 stars
Average reviews
7,553per listing
Listings tracked
61

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Colored Pens 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 31% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$572$1K$2K$2K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

22 rising

Sellers

86

Top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

31%

Top 20: 63%

Open market

20%

  • STAEDTLER52%
  • SKY-TOUCH9%
  • Faber-Castell8%
  • uni-ball4%
  • deli3%
  • BEIWO3%

Demand

Colored Pens search demand

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

1K600Spike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Colored Pens search terms shoppers use

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

  • staedtler16K/yr
  • color pens8K/yr
  • color pen6K/yr
  • colored pens8K/yr
  • staedtler pencil6K/yr
  • staedtler pen4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Colored Pens

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

29%of positive reviews mention “لون”
24%of negative reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
1.0%of orders come back
“Bad quality”
A buyer, on “الجودة الشاملة”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 Colored Pens questions

Answered from the same tracked data.