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Pencil Case

Maybe

The top 5 brands take only 32% of clicks. But prices span $2.67–$17.02, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Pencil Case is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 5% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +13 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£596K/yr6.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+18.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
24%top-5 click share · 52 brands · 114 sellers

Flapen Score

Pencil Case against its category

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

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pencil Case market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pencil Case 6.0M times last year and spent an estimated £596K. The top 5 brands take 32% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 6.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +18.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £596K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
6.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+18.4%
Conversion, latest week
1.5%
Market size, estimated
£596Ka year
Peak month
August5.7× the quietest month
Top search term
pencil case3.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.71.

Listings sell for £6.71 on average, from £2.67 to £17.02. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 125K to 150K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At £6.71 that is £7K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.71under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.67–£17.02
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
125K–150K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
£7K–£8K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #134 within Office Supplies. It carries 2,646 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
10.8%
Average rank
#134in Office Supplies
Average rating
4.48 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,646per listing
Listings tracked
78

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 17 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

17 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 28 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
17
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
28 months

Products

Top Pencil Case 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 24% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£12K£24K£36K£48K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

52 falling

Sellers

114

Est. top-5 brand share

32%

Top 20: 75%

Est. top-5 click share

24%

Top 20: 58%

Open market

64%

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Demand

Pencil Case search demand

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

600K400KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.7×

Search terms

Top Pencil Case search terms shoppers use

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

  • pencil case3.7M/yr
  • pencil case for girls415K/yr
  • pencil cases239K/yr
  • pencil case for boys222K/yr
  • cute pencil case136K/yr
  • large pencil case143K/yr
  • boys pencil case152K/yr
  • black pencil case164K/yr
  • small pencil case125K/yr
  • girls pencil case124K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pencil Case

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.8%of orders come back
“Smaller than expected”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”21% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Pencil Case 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