Blastoise EX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £110.62, raw the card sits at £7.11 — 15,6× as much. Of 6.707 copies already graded, 28 % received a 10 and 43 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £50.60 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 150 auctions the median was £4.75, across 346 fixed-price sales £5.23. Fixed price therefore fetched about 10 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £3.65 and £6.03, with a median of £4.60. 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 £2.38. Offers well below £1.43 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 £4.71 (529), Italian £4.56 (14). 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.