Flareon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £504.31, raw the card sits at £5.08 — 99,3× as much. Of 286 copies already graded, 19 % received a 10 and 35 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £154.64 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 £5.10, across 55 fixed-price sales £3.61. Auctions therefore fetched about 42 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £2.99 and £5.10, with a median of £3.66. 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 £2.45. Offers well below £1.47 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 £3.72 (101), Japanese £3.67 (13). 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.