Charmeleon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £96.15, raw the card sits at £13.95 — 6.9× as much. Of 2.069 copies already graded, 59 % received a 10 and 38 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £68.65 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 64 auctions the median was £13.09, across 201 fixed-price sales £15.68. Fixed price therefore fetched about 20 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £12.23 and £16.93, with a median of £14.53. 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 £10.16. Offers well below £6.09 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: German £19.00 (16), English £14.17 (261). German fetches about 34 % 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.