Gengar

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £328.18, raw the card sits at £1.48 — 221,8× as much. Of 1.268 copies already graded, 43 % received a 10 and 34 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £198.27 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 61 auctions the median was £2.87, across 125 fixed-price sales £1.73. Auctions therefore fetched about 66 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £0.99 and £1.77, with a median of £1.45. 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 £0.79. Offers well below £0.47 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: French £2.55 (21), English £1.45 (300), German £1.10 (86). French fetches about 133 % 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.