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Mechanical Pencil

Fail

Prices span $1.13–$15.80, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Mechanical Pencil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 399 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · on the category median
Market size
£405K/yr1.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
46%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 123 sellers

Flapen Score

Mechanical Pencil against its category

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

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mechanical Pencil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Mechanical Pencil 1.0M times last year and spent an estimated £405K. The top 5 brands take 81% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £405K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.8%
Conversion, latest week
5.8%
Market size, estimated
£405Ka year
Peak month
August1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
mechanical pencil571K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.81.

Listings sell for £6.81 on average, from £1.13 to £15.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £6.81 that is £9K to £10K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.81under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.13–£15.80
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£10K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% 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 #21 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 4,257 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.8%
Average rank
#21in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
4,257per listing
Listings tracked
32

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Mechanical 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 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 46% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£20K£40K£61K£81K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

123

Est. top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

46%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

15%

  • BIC31%
  • Nicpro21%
  • Four Candies12%
  • Zebra Pen10%
  • Faber-Castell7%
  • Paper Mate4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 15%)

Demand

Mechanical Pencil search demand

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

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

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Mechanical Pencil search terms shoppers use

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

  • mechanical pencil571K/yr
  • mechanical pencils118K/yr
  • mechanical pencil set83K/yr
  • propelling pencil43K/yr
  • pencils mechanical27K/yr
  • retractable pencils23K/yr
  • mechanical pencil 0.523K/yr
  • bic pencils17K/yr
  • mechanical pencil 0.719K/yr
  • bic mechanical pencil15K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mechanical Pencil

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
18%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
0.2%of orders come back
“Break easily unfortunately”
A buyer, on “Durability”18% 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 Mechanical 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