Gyarados ex

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £89.86, raw the card sits at £8.21 — 10.9× as much. Of 6.518 copies already graded, 44 % received a 10 and 42 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £50.22 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 106 auctions the median was £7.40, across 479 fixed-price sales £9.12. Fixed price therefore fetched about 23 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £7.41 and £10.18, with a median of £8.70. 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 £6.41. Offers well below £3.85 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: Italian £11.37 (32), German £9.34 (60), French £8.64 (18). Italian fetches about 40 % 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.