Gyarados V

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £140.60, raw the card sits at £17.91 — 7.8× as much. Of 1.005 copies already graded, 54 % received a 10 and 33 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £92.72 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 35 auctions the median was £10.60, across 137 fixed-price sales £14.60. Fixed price therefore fetched about 38 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £10.97 and £15.38, with a median of £13.27. 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 £8.35. Offers well below £5.01 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 £13.43 (211), German £12.32 (16). 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.