Venusaur

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £6,081, raw the card sits at £208.45 — 29,2× as much. Of 1.420 copies already graded, 9 % received a 10 and 27 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £1,309 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 45 auctions the median was £73.01, across 82 fixed-price sales £148.37. Fixed price therefore fetched about 103 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £49.12 and £109.92, with a median of £73.26. 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 £29.00. Offers well below £17.40 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 £80.68 (104), German £37.34 (10). English fetches about 116 % 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.