Charizard

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £1,613, raw the card sits at £68.03 — 23,7× as much. Of 59.143 copies already graded, 2 % received a 10 and 45 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £132.07 on average, before fees and shipping. So submitting only pays off if the card truly hits a 10 — at any lower grade little remains after fees. The grade distribution comes from the PSA Population Report; people pre-sort before submitting, so your own hit rate may differ.

Across 542 auctions the median was £64.07, across 827 fixed-price sales £70.82. Fixed price therefore fetched about 11 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £36.79 and £68.03, with a median of £48.89. 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 £25.62. Offers well below £15.37 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: Italian £64.47 (135), German £61.49 (67), English £55.93 (2101). Italian fetches about 176 % 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.