Friends in Sinnoh

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £64.40, raw the card sits at £6.15 — 10.5× as much. Of 2.648 copies already graded, 56 % received a 10 and 34 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £43.15 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 95 auctions the median was £5.46, across 261 fixed-price sales £8.02. Fixed price therefore fetched about 47 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £5.88 and £8.90, with a median of £7.03. 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 £4.76. Offers well below £2.86 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 £10.54 (18), English £8.01 (507). German fetches about 32 % more.

Last Sold 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.