Flying Pikachu VMAX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £76.58, raw the card sits at £4.68 — 16.4× as much. Of 14.942 copies already graded, 72 % received a 10 and 23 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £62.73 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 24 auctions the median was £5.34, across 99 fixed-price sales £7.28. Fixed price therefore fetched about 36 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £5.10 and £6.95, with a median of £5.71. 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 £4.37. Offers well below £2.62 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 £6.98 (26), English £5.31 (314). German fetches about 31 % 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.