Charmeleon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £29,066, raw the card sits at £94.38 — 308,0× as much. Of 987 copies already graded, 4 % received a 10 and 28 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £1,931 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 47 auctions the median was £37.94, across 88 fixed-price sales £66.50. Fixed price therefore fetched about 75 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £22.11 and £51.64, with a median of £37.14. 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 £15.81. Offers well below £9.48 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 £39.22 (109), German £15.31 (10). English fetches about 156 % 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.