Surfing Pikachu VMAX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £70.19, raw the card sits at £6.57 — 10,7× as much. Of 3.628 copies already graded, 49 % received a 10 and 42 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £47.57 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 30 auctions the median was £13.78, across 67 fixed-price sales £8.56. Auctions therefore fetched about 61 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £4.74 and £6.73, with a median of £5.53. 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 £3.95. Offers well below £2.37 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 £5.94 (11), English £5.60 (284). The difference is small — language barely matters here.

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.