What Buyers Actually Reported

Every verdict on this site is checked against what buyers wrote, not against what a manufacturer claims. These pages hold the raw counts: 17,314 Amazon “Customers say” topic summaries across 4,486 products, each with a mention count, a positive and negative split, and verbatim quotes. One page per failure mode.

The failure modes, by how often buyers raise them

Aggregated across every marker type in the catalogue. 111,241 reports in total.
AttributeReportsNegativeNegative rate
Drying time 39,040 21,876 56%
Durability 30,654 14,864 48%
Bleed resistance 12,911 7,556 59%
Value for money 8,001 2,506 31%
Color variety 7,399 1,971 27%
Washability 6,049 1,659 27%
Drying out 3,898 2,919 75%
Ink flow 3,289 1,655 50%

The nine attribute pages


Why this is the differentiator

A competing listicle asserts that a marker bleeds. This site can say how many buyers reported it, out of how many, on which products, and quote them. That is the whole difference, and it is why these pages sit one click from the homepage instead of being buried. How we review sets out the method.