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Pastel Pencils

Maybe

An estimated 0.4% of orders come back. But the products selling today already average 4.6★, so Pastel Pencils is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 6% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +12 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$417K/yr351K searches / yr
90-day growth
+15.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
41%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 149 sellers

Flapen Score

Pastel Pencils against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Pastel Pencils is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pastel Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Pastel Pencils 351K times last year and spent an estimated $417K. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 351K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +15.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $417K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
351K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+15.7%
Conversion, latest week
4.0%
Market size, estimated
$417Ka year
Peak month
August2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
pastel pencils186K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $29.58.

Listings sell for $29.58 on average, from $3.95 to $96.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $29.58 that is $22K to $30K a year per listing.

Average price
$29.58inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.95–$96.83
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$22K–$30K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #224 within Drawing. It carries 4,135 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
5.1%
Average rank
#224in Drawing
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,135per listing
Listings tracked
34

04 · Newcomers

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

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 61 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
61 months

Products

Top Pastel Pencils products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 41% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

18 rising

Sellers

149

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

41%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

19%

  • Brand 133%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Pastel Pencils search demand

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

13K8KPrime Day '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Pastel Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • pastel pencils186K/yr
  • soft pastel pencils26K/yr
  • pastel pencils for artists23K/yr
  • ticonderoga pastel pencils19K/yr
  • pastel pencil11K/yr
  • chalk pastel pencils9K/yr
  • faber castell pastel pencils9K/yr
  • faber castell pitt pastel pencils8K/yr
  • pastel ticonderoga pencils5K/yr
  • ticonderoga pencils pastel8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pastel Pencils

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Color”
10%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Bad quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”10% 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 Pastel Pencils questions

Answered from the same tracked data.