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Builders Pencil

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Builders Pencil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 1,848 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −9 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£152K/yr110K searches / yr
90-day growth
-31.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 69 sellers

Flapen Score

Builders Pencil against its category

The dotted line is the DIY & Tools average. Past it, Builders Pencil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Builders Pencil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Builders Pencil 110K times last year and spent an estimated £152K. All 3 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 110K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -31.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £152K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
110K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-31.5%
Conversion, latest week
10.4%
Market size, estimated
£152Ka year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
pica pencil63K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.30.

Listings sell for £13.30 on average, from £5.71 to £31.93. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £13.30 that is £7K to £10K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.30under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.71–£31.93
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£7K–£10K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

65% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #77 within Measuring & Layout Tools. It carries 3,310 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
65%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
11.3%
Average rank
#77in Measuring & Layout Tools
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,310per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Builders Pencil products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£15K£30K£46K£61K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 falling

Sellers

69

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Pica85%
  • Nicpro8%
  • Tracer7%

Demand

Builders Pencil search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Builders Pencil search terms shoppers use

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

  • pica pencil63K/yr
  • pica40K/yr
  • pica pen4K/yr
  • pika pencil3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Builders Pencil

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
28%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
0.2%of orders come back
“They constantly break, pretty disappointing”
A buyer, on “Durability”28% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Builders Pencil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data