Giovanni's Nidoking

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £1,758, raw the card sits at £74.54 — 23,6× as much. Of 2.727 copies already graded, 6 % received a 10 and 28 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £266.26 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 115 auctions the median was £34.29, across 287 fixed-price sales £51.43. Fixed price therefore fetched about 50 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £24.30 and £54.96, with a median of £38.31. 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 £14.72. Offers well below £8.83 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 £62.20 (355), Japanese £23.38 (108). English fetches about 166 % 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.