Charizard GX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £78.27, raw the card sits at £8.28 — 9.5× as much. Of 20.073 copies already graded, 61 % received a 10 and 32 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £59.11 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 418 auctions the median was £15.21, across 591 fixed-price sales £9.54. Auctions therefore fetched about 59 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £6.37 and £9.45, with a median of £7.52. 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 £4.37. Offers well below £2.62 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: German £9.54 (14), English £8.26 (739), French £5.09 (16). German fetches about 87 % 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.