Ultra Ball

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £37.07, raw the card sits at £11.18 — 3,3× as much. Of 1.290 copies already graded, 39 % received a 10 and 46 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £23.17 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 71 auctions the median was £9.22, across 184 fixed-price sales £14.53. Fixed price therefore fetched about 58 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £10.46 and £15.95, with a median of £13.32. 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 £7.41. Offers well below £4.45 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: German £12.75 (13), English £10.85 (306). German fetches about 18 % 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.