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Blue Pens

Fail

Prices span $1.47–$17.49, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Blue Pens is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 41% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£177K/yr253K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
48%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 176 sellers

Flapen Score

Blue Pens against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Blue Pens is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Blue Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Blue Pens 253K times last year and spent an estimated £177K. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 253K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £177K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
253K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.9%
Conversion, latest week
11.7%
Market size, estimated
£177Ka year
Peak month
August1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
blue pens83K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.00.

Listings sell for £6.00 on average, from £1.47 to £17.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £6.00 that is £8K to £9K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.00under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.47–£17.49
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£8K–£9K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

66% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #56 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 3,271 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
66%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#56in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,271per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

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

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 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
43 months

Products

Top Blue Pens 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 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 48% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£5K£11K£16K£21K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 rising

Sellers

176

Est. top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

19%

  • BIC41%
  • Zebra Pen12%
  • Paper Mate11%
  • G4GADGET9%
  • Eziglide5%
  • Cello4%

Demand

Blue Pens search demand

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

10K6KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Blue Pens search terms shoppers use

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

  • blue pens83K/yr
  • blue pen31K/yr
  • pens blue ink20K/yr
  • blue ink pens19K/yr
  • blue biro pens15K/yr
  • blue bic pens10K/yr
  • bic blue pens9K/yr
  • blue ballpoint pens10K/yr
  • bic pens blue10K/yr
  • blue pens ballpoint10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Blue Pens

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
13%of negative reviews mention “Writing Experience”
0.2%of orders come back
“Most of the pens were not writing clearly”
A buyer, on “Writing Experience”13% 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 Blue Pens 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