Piplup

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £534.02, raw the card sits at £53.35 — 10,0× as much. Of 6.440 copies already graded, 23 % received a 10 and 53 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £170.17 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 119 auctions the median was £37.75, across 309 fixed-price sales £48.48. Fixed price therefore fetched about 28 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £36.45 and £52.37, with a median of £43.49. 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 £29.15. Offers well below £17.49 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: English £49.07 (483), Italian £36.10 (25), German £30.70 (33). English fetches about 92 % 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.