Tyranitar V

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £107.75, raw the card sits at £8.94 — 12,1× as much. Of 1.123 copies already graded, 55 % received a 10 and 35 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £73.34 on average, before fees and shipping. Rule of thumb: submit when the value at a realistic grade is at least double the raw value — which is the case here. Centering decides it: an off-centre card will not get a 10. The grade distribution comes from the PSA Population Report; people pre-sort before submitting, so your own hit rate may differ.

Across 37 auctions the median was £5.87, across 93 fixed-price sales £9.09. Fixed price therefore fetched about 55 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £7.00 and £9.59, with a median of £7.96. Selling fast lands you nearer the lower end; with patience, good photos and a complete title the upper end is achievable.

The cheapest genuine sales were around £4.86. Offers well below £2.91 are typically fakes, mislabelled cards or a different variant — ask for photos of all four borders and a close-up of the surface.

From real sales: Italian £9.09 (14), English £7.79 (154). Italian fetches about 17 % more.

lastsold uses only real sales — eBay plus auction houses like Goldin & Fanatics — recent sales count more (recency weighting), outliers and fakes are removed. It's not an estimate but actual sold prices, separated by condition, language and grading.