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Pastel Pencils

Fail

Demand is soft, at -17.2% this quarter, so Pastel Pencils is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 3,831 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −5 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£101K/yr116K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
53%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 89 sellers

Flapen Score

Pastel Pencils against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Pastel Pencils is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pastel Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pastel Pencils 116K times last year and spent an estimated £101K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 116K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £101K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
116K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.6%
Market size, estimated
£101Ka year
Peak month
February1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
pastel pencils67K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £23.94.

Listings sell for £23.94 on average, from £2.58 to £89.22. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £23.94 that is £2K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£23.94inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.58–£89.22
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£6K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #135 within Drawing. It carries 2,012 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.8%
Average rank
#135in Drawing
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,012per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
54 months

Products

Top Pastel Pencils 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 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 53% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£4K£8K£12K£16K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

89

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

53%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

12%

  • Faber-Castell38%
  • H & B15%
  • Koh-I-Noor14%
  • Derwent11%
  • KALOUR PDAS5%
  • KALOUR4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 12%)

Demand

Pastel Pencils search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Pastel Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • pastel pencils67K/yr
  • pastel pencils for artists12K/yr
  • soft pastel pencils7K/yr
  • oil pastel pencils8K/yr
  • faber castell pastel pencils6K/yr
  • derwent pastel pencils7K/yr
  • faber castell pitt pastel pencils5K/yr
  • pitt pastel pencils3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pastel Pencils

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Color”
21%of negative reviews mention “Sharpness”
0.5%of orders come back
“It doesn't even get close to being sharp”
A buyer, on “Sharpness”21% 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 Pastel Pencils 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