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Colourful Pens

Fail

Prices span $2.81–$8.01, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Colourful Pens is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 652 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£60K/yr178K searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 39 sellers

Flapen Score

Colourful Pens against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Colourful Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Colourful Pens 178K times last year and spent an estimated £60K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 178K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £60K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
178K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.1%
Conversion, latest week
6.8%
Market size, estimated
£60Ka year
Peak month
August1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
pink pens68K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.93.

Listings sell for £4.93 on average, from £2.81 to £8.01. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £4.93 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.93under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.81–£8.01
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

60% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #126 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 1,110 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
60%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.4%
Average rank
#126in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,110per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

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

3 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 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Colourful 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 70% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£6K£12K£18K£24K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

39

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

13%

  • BIC37%
  • Zebra Pen21%
  • Eziglide15%
  • Schneider6%
  • Four Candies4%
  • Newell Brands4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 13%)

Demand

Colourful Pens search demand

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

7K5KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Colourful Pens search terms shoppers use

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

  • pink pens68K/yr
  • pink pen45K/yr
  • pink pens black ink10K/yr
  • pink bic pens8K/yr
  • pink ink pen7K/yr
  • pink biro6K/yr
  • pink ink pens8K/yr
  • bic pink pens5K/yr
  • pink biro pens5K/yr
  • pink gel pens4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Colourful Pens

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Writing Experience”
25%of negative reviews mention “Leak-Proof”
0.2%of orders come back
“leaked”
A buyer, on “Leak-Proof”25% 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 Colourful 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