Mewtwo

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £192.00, raw the card sits at £3.75 — 51,2× as much. Of 4.836 copies already graded, 20 % received a 10 and 49 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £68.78 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 65 auctions the median was £5.54, across 150 fixed-price sales £3.17. Auctions therefore fetched about 75 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £1.96 and £4.97, with a median of £3.09. 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 £1.45. Offers well below £0.87 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: French £9.58 (15), German £8.37 (13), Italian £4.08 (75). French fetches about 170 % 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.