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pegboard

Everything captured about this concept, with the source of each figure, the places the sources disagree, and what to check next.

Interest proxy

~ 348,894

cumulative downloads, cumulative

Downloads, likes or favourites. Evidence that people looked, never that anyone bought.

thingiverse · n=39

Published floor

≥ 6,500

published monthly purchase floor, past month

A lower bound the marketplace itself published. The true figure is at least this.

amazon-keepa · n=20 · 2026-09-19

Provider estimate

~ 6,422

estimated lifetime sales, title-matched listings only, lifetime

A third-party model's guess at how much a listing has sold. Not a measurement.

etsy-everbee · n=45

Target buyer

Who is paying, and how much, on each channel that carries this concept.

  • On Amazon the median pegboard product sells at $45.99, across 19 of 20 captured products.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=19) @2026-09-19

  • On Etsy the median physical pegboard listing asks $117.13, across 49 physical listings.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=49)

  • 1 of 50 Etsy listings sell the FILE rather than the object — a second buyer, with a different cost base.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=50)

Observed need

What people did — downloaded, reviewed, bought — separated by which of those it was.

  • 39 indexed designs for pegboard have been downloaded 348,894 times in total. That is interest, not purchases.

    thingiverse:v_concept_panel (n=39)

  • Etsy buyers have left 1,012 reviews on pegboard listings — people who bought, not people who browsed.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=49)

Supporting demand

Search and purchase evidence, each labelled with the kind of figure it is.

  • Amazon publishes a purchase floor on 20 of 20 captured pegboard products, summing to at least 6,500 units bought in the past month.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

Competing solutions

Who already answers this need, and how crowded the answer is.

  • The median captured pegboard product holds Amazon sales rank 9,177 in its category — a position, not a volume.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • The median pegboard product has 1 offer — single-seller listings, so these are brands rather than a resold commodity.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • 50 Etsy listings were captured for pegboard, of which 45 name it in their own title.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=50)

Possible differentiation

Where a printed version could win, read off the price evidence rather than assumed.

  • Etsy buyers pay 2.55× the Amazon price for pegboard — $117.13 against $45.99. Whatever justifies that premium is what a printed version has to offer; matching Amazon on price is not a strategy a printer can win.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=49)amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=19) @2026-09-19

Conflicting evidence

Where two sources disagree. Stated, never resolved into an average.

  • 348,894 downloads against an estimated 6,422 lifetime Etsy sales. People who want pegboard are largely printing it themselves — the free file is the competitor, and the download figure is not a demand forecast.

    thingiverse:v_concept_panel (n=39)etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=45)

  • Amazon's pegboard products are selling 15.5% less than 90 days ago on average, across 20 products. Whatever else the evidence says, this concept is contracting on Amazon right now.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

Unknowns

What this brief does not know. Absence is a finding, not a blank.

  • No search-volume rows match pegboard. Demand here is inferred from marketplace activity, not from what anyone searched for.

  • No figure here is a measured conversion rate, a margin, or a unit cost. Nothing captured tells us what one costs to produce, or what share of the people who look at pegboard go on to buy.

  • Trademark, patent and design-right exposure for pegboard has not been checked by anything in this system.

Next validation step

  1. Read the top title-matched Etsy listings for pegboard and name what the $117.13 buyer is paying for that the $45.99 buyer is not — material, personalisation, size, or fit. That single answer decides whether this is a product or a race to the bottom.
  2. Settle the conflicting evidence above before costing anything. A brief with unresolved conflicts is a reason to look harder, not a reason to buy filament.
  3. Run pegboard through the fleet planner at $45.99 and again at the Etsy median. The channel that survives its own price is the channel to model.

This brief is assembled from captured rows only. There is no blended score for pegboard, deliberately: the sections disagree, and a single number could only hide that.