Impostor Professor Oak's Invention

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £287.77, raw the card sits at £7.64 — 37,7× as much. Mathematically, submitting returns £287.77 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.

Across 21 auctions the median was £2.20, across 50 fixed-price sales £4.43. Fixed price therefore fetched about 101 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £2.24 and £5.27, with a median of £3.63. 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 £1.54. Offers well below £0.92 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 £4.01 (76), Japanese £2.29 (13). English fetches about 75 % 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.