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Pens

Fail

Prices span $1.78–$13.57, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Pens is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 45% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£2.4M/yr5.7M searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 222 sellers

Flapen Score

Pens against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pens 5.7M times last year and spent an estimated £2.4M. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.7M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.7M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.4%
Conversion, latest week
8.5%
Market size, estimated
£2.4Ma year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
pens2.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.03.

Listings sell for £5.03 on average, from £1.78 to £13.57. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500K to 600K a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At £5.03 that is £101K to £126K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.03under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.78–£13.57
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
500K–600K
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
£101K–£126K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #5 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 7,528 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#5in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
7,528per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top 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 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£241K£482K£723K£964K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

222

Est. top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • Zebra Pen41%
  • BIC26%
  • G4GADGET11%
  • Paper Mate7%
  • Stylostik4%
  • UIXJODO4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 8%)

Demand

Pens search demand

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

175K125KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Pens search terms shoppers use

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

  • pens2.5M/yr
  • pen981K/yr
  • black pens489K/yr
  • pens black ink270K/yr
  • zebra pens266K/yr
  • biro pens158K/yr
  • ballpoint pens171K/yr
  • pens multipack70K/yr
  • black pen94K/yr
  • writing pens98K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pens

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Writing Experience”
16%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Mixed quality and some don't work well”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”16% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common 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