How competitive is the Pencil Eraser niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

6 brands and 89 sellers compete in Pencil Eraser on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Pencil Eraser products take 48% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 98% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Pencil Eraser?

Pencil Eraser buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Advertised Vs Actual Product, Quality-Overall, Erasability, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.

What does it cost to enter the Pencil Eraser niche?

Pencil Eraser sells for £5.64 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £0.95–£13.98. The average incumbent carries 2,825 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Pencil Eraser

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($0.95–$13.98) — Pencil Eraser doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

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This niche Category average

Is Pencil Eraser profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Pencil Eraser is a £57K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (83K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 98% of demand. Demand peaks in Sep. Verdict: Skip it — 39/100.

Pencil Eraser: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -10.7% over the last 90 days and 12.3% of searches end in a purchase.

£57K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr13K

Search volume / yr-10.7%83K

Conversion rate12.3%

Avg price£5.64

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 98% of demand, so 2% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers6 · 89

Top-5 product click share48%

Open market2%

Avg brand age43 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.6★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 23 products

Top Pencil Eraser products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Tombow Mono Eraser Set - Zero Round Tip Eraser With Refills (Pack of 2) - White

Price: £6.05
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 3,767
Age: 13y ago

Tombow 4003198501119 2.3 mm Round Tip MONO Zero Refillable Eraser

Price: £4.09
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 8,107
Age: 14y ago

STAEDTLER 52650BK4DA - Mars Plastic Eraser (Pack of 4)

Price: £4.74
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 3,510
Age: 14y ago

5 x Staedtler Mars Plastic Pencil Eraser Rubbers School Office Drawing

Price: £5.40
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 928
Age: 12y ago

STAEDTLER 52650BK2DA - Mars Plastic Eraser (Pack of 2)

Price: £2.95
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 2,869
Age: 19y ago

Newest

by launch date

Faber-Castell 185610 - Precision Eraser Pen Includes Refill Eraser for Professionals and Hobby Artists

Price: £5.88
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 1,589
Age: 2y ago

UICCVOKK 6PCS Eraser Pencils for Artists Highlight Eraser Pencil Rubber Wooden Sketch Erasers Pen Erasers Pencil for Sketching Charcoal Sketch Drawings Pencils for Artists Revise Erasing

Price: £4.22
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 319
Age: 3y ago

Pasler Eraser Pencils 7802 - Perfection Eraser Drawing Pencil with Brush and a Sharpener Perfect for Sketches and Coloured illustrations (7802-4)

Price: £6.13
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 1,597
Age: 6y ago

Tombow Mono Zero Eraser Pen (1 Eraser Pen and 10 Refills 2.3mm Round Tip)

Price: £11.10
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 919
Age: 9y ago

Tombow Mono Zero Eraser Set Includes Round & Square Eraser Holders (4 Total) & Refills (Choose Color) - Silver

Price: £13.00
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 657
Age: 9y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 48% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

Tombow60%
STAEDTLER25%
Faber-Castell9%
UICCVOKK3%
Helix2%
Pasler2%
Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Pencil Eraser demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume83KCVR12.3%Products23Brands6Top 5 Brands98%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.6★Reviews2,825Avg BSR#34

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Top Pencil Eraser search terms shoppers use

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

tombow mono eraser19K/yr -15.0%8.8% conv.
eraser pencil15K/yr -18.9%5.1% conv.
staedtler eraser14K/yr +6.2%14.5% conv.
mono eraser7K/yr -7.8%5.0% conv.
pencil erasers for artists6K/yr -25.2%6.2% conv.
tombow eraser5K/yr -22.5%6.2% conv.
pencil rubbers4K/yr +16.3%3.1% conv.
tombow mono zero eraser4K/yr -1.4%8.7% conv.
mono zero eraser5K/yr -27.2%10.6% conv.
staedtler rubber3K/yr +42.2%13.0% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pencil Eraser

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

87% of reviews

Erasability38%

“erases very well”

Quality-Overall13%

“Best on the market”

Ease Of Use8%

“Easy to use”

Value For Money8%

“Great Value for Money”

Drawing Experience8%

“Brilliant for drawing”

What buyers complain about

56% of reviews

Advertised Vs Actual Product15%

“False advertising”

Quality-Overall7%

“Such poor quality and unusable”

Erasability7%

“These Chinese erasers do not work well”

Functionality-Overall6%

“Do not work at all”

Durability6%

“at times can break of easily”

Pencil Eraser return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.1%

Return rate

16%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Functionality-Overall

21%

2Size-Overall

14%

3Erasability

12%

4Quality-Overall

12%

5Value For Money

10%

Common Pencil Eraser questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Pencil Eraser 39/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £57K/yr across 23 tracked products. Search demand moved -10.7% over the last 90 days.