Lt. Surge's Pikachu

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £378.27, raw the card sits at £6.56 — 57,6× as much. Of 1.837 copies already graded, 10 % received a 10 and 28 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £91.31 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 127 auctions the median was £4.02, across 316 fixed-price sales £4.42. 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 £2.93 and £5.96, with a median of £4.08. 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 £2.13. Offers well below £1.28 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: Japanese £6.79 (14), English £5.21 (567). Japanese fetches about 30 % 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.