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Coloured Pens

Fail

Prices span $2.06–$9.25, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Coloured Pens is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 601 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −7 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£172K/yr523K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
59%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 206 sellers

Flapen Score

Coloured Pens against its category

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

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

Market

The Coloured Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Coloured Pens 523K times last year and spent an estimated £172K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep–Oct. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 523K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £172K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
523K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.3%
Conversion, latest week
6.6%
Market size, estimated
£172Ka year
Peak month
August2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
coloured pens158K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.95.

Listings sell for £4.95 on average, from £2.06 to £9.25. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £4.95 that is £7K to £10K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.95under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.06–£9.25
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
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.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 92% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #37 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 6,230 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
92%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#37in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,230per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

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

2 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 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Coloured 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 59% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£17K£34K£52K£69K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

206

Est. top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

11%

  • STAEDTLER45%
  • BIC27%
  • Zebra Pen5%
  • Paper Mate4%
  • Helix4%
  • YISAN3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 11%)

Demand

Coloured Pens search demand

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

30K20KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Coloured Pens search terms shoppers use

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

  • coloured pens158K/yr
  • pens multicolour76K/yr
  • staedtler42K/yr
  • staedtler pen43K/yr
  • staedtler pens31K/yr
  • colourful pens20K/yr
  • coloured biros16K/yr
  • bic coloured pens18K/yr
  • biro pens multicolour13K/yr
  • coloured pens for writing15K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Coloured Pens

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Color”
14%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.2%of orders come back
“Poor quality pens”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”14% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Coloured 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