Light Jolteon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £720.34, raw the card sits at £65.74 — 11.0× as much. Of 800 copies already graded, 10 % received a 10 and 28 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £210.81 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 94 auctions the median was £34.17, across 249 fixed-price sales £40.71. Fixed price therefore fetched about 19 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £29.63 and £46.50, with a median of £38.84. 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 £21.82. Offers well below £13.09 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 £39.45 (40), English £36.09 (430), French £25.71 (12). Japanese fetches about 83 % 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.