Dragonite

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £603.93, raw the card sits at £5.27 — 114,6× as much. Of 3.178 copies already graded, 31 % received a 10 and 47 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £240.96 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 30 auctions the median was £4.09, across 144 fixed-price sales £3.47. Auctions therefore fetched about 18 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £2.20 and £4.42, with a median of £3.20. 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 £1.83. Offers well below £1.10 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 £5.25 (448), German £4.70 (11), Italian £2.72 (63). English fetches about 93 % 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.