Flying Pikachu VMAX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £87.70, raw the card sits at £6.31 — 13.9× as much. Of 14.914 copies already graded, 72 % received a 10 and 23 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £70.77 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 22 auctions the median was £6.32, across 58 fixed-price sales £8.45. Fixed price therefore fetched about 34 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £5.12 and £6.85, with a median of £5.72. 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 £4.56. Offers well below £2.73 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 £9.32 (17), English £5.52 (281). German fetches about 69 % 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.