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Personalised Pencils

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.2% of orders. But shoppers spend only $13K a year here, so Personalised Pencils is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 23% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£13K/yr49K searches / yr
90-day growth
+70.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
42%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 23 sellers

Flapen Score

Personalised Pencils against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Personalised Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Personalised Pencils 49K times last year and spent an estimated £13K. The top 5 brands take 72% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug–Dec. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

3.0% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 49K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +70.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £13K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
49K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+70.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.0%
Market size, estimated
£13Ka year
Peak month
August4.2× the quietest month
Top search term
personalised pencils28K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.91.

Listings sell for £8.91 on average, from £4.94 to £24.54. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500 to 750 a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £8.91 that is £0 to £891 a year per listing.

Average price
£8.91under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.94–£24.54
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
500–750
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£891
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 23% ship with Prime. On an average day, 14.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #466 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 221 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
23%
Out of stock, average day
14.3%
Average rank
#466in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
221per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 8 launches as successful.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Personalised Pencils products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 42% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£531£1K£2K£2K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)2 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

20 rising

Sellers

23

Top-5 brand share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

42%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

24%

  • That's My Pencil26%
  • Primary Teaching Services Ltd17%
  • Hands Off17%
  • Vicloon6%
  • Dios Designs6%
  • Aolun4%

Demand

Personalised Pencils search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.2×

Search terms

Top Personalised Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • personalised pencils28K/yr
  • personalised pencil7K/yr
  • personalised colouring pencils7K/yr
  • personalised pencils with name4K/yr
  • personalised colouring pencils for children3K/yr
  • personalised pencils for children1K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Personalised Pencils

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall24%+1.11

Its not fancy art-store quality

Not good quality

Poor quality

Sharpness19%−0.08

the ones that did sharpen just kept breaking sadly these are the worst pencils Ive ever bought

when sharpen led breaks straight away

Color17%−0.01

Colours break quick

Also, the individual colours were not named and some were fufficu to define from other shades

Virtually no pigment

Advertised Vs Actual Product10%−0.10

Misinformation

Not as advertised

Hard Feel6%−0.03

I found these pencil crayons quite hard

Love

Quality-Overall24%+1.11

brilliant set of high quality pencils

Excellent quality

Very good quality and personalisation

Pen/Pencil Quality22%+0.30

Great pencils

Lovely Pencils

Great pencils, really pleased with them

Color15%−0.01

The colours are nice and vibrant, they go on smoothly, and theyve been great for colouring

Good quality and lovely colours

Good quality nice selection of colours

Value For Money14%+1.46

Excellent value for money

Good value

Worth the money

Ease Of Use4%+0.50

Easy to use

easy to hold

easy to store

Return

0.2% Return rate 33% Fixable by listing

Quality-Overall16%▁█▃▁▇▁

Its not fancy art-store quality

Not good quality

Poor quality

Color14%▁▁▅▁▇█

Colours break quick

Also, the individual colours were not named and some were fufficu to define from other shades

Virtually no pigment

Smell12%█▅▁▁▁▃

Not scented

Adhesion/Stickiness12%▁▁█▁▁▁
Gifting Purpose9%▁▁▄▁▁█

FAQ

Common Personalised Pencils questions

Answered from the same tracked data.