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Pen Holder

Fail

Prices span $0.99–$16.30, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Pen Holder is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 431 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£118K/yr483K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
47%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 64 sellers

Flapen Score

Pen Holder against its category

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

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

Market

The Pen Holder market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pen Holder 483K times last year and spent an estimated £118K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Sep. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 483K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £118K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
483K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.3%
Market size, estimated
£118Ka year
Peak month
September2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
pen pot163K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.41.

Listings sell for £7.41 on average, from £0.99 to £16.30. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £7.41 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.41under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.99–£16.30
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

59% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #71 within Office Supplies. It carries 1,780 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
59%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
9.5%
Average rank
#71in Office Supplies
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,780per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 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 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
32 months

Products

Top Pen Holder 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 47% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£12K£24K£35K£47K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

64

Est. top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 99%

Est. top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 87%

Open market

33%

  • Amazon Basics30%
  • Osco16%
  • Q-Connect8%
  • MYHOGOOD5%
  • WUWEOT5%
  • minimaliving4%

Demand

Pen Holder search demand

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

25K15KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Pen Holder search terms shoppers use

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

  • pen pot163K/yr
  • pencil pot61K/yr
  • pencil pots38K/yr
  • pen pots44K/yr
  • pen pots for desk51K/yr
  • pen storage44K/yr
  • pen stand16K/yr
  • rotating pen holder11K/yr
  • pencil holders13K/yr
  • pencil organiser11K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pen Holder

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
26%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Huge,”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”26% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Pen Holder 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