Lt. Surge's Raichu

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £886.18, raw the card sits at £14.76 — 60,0× as much. Of 482 copies already graded, 10 % received a 10 and 35 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £181.45 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 57 auctions the median was £11.25, across 199 fixed-price sales £14.62. Fixed price therefore fetched about 30 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £10.37 and £17.81, with a median of £13.82. 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 £7.45. Offers well below £4.47 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 £17.40 (15), English £14.75 (351). Japanese fetches about 18 % 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.