Espeon GX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £247.96, raw the card sits at £23.70 — 10,5× as much. Of 2.825 copies already graded, 27 % received a 10 and 44 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £104.94 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 75 auctions the median was £15.20, across 211 fixed-price sales £21.98. Fixed price therefore fetched about 45 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £14.17 and £22.35, with a median of £17.87. 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 £9.22. Offers well below £5.53 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 £21.31 (47), English £18.52 (258), German £15.14 (11). Italian fetches about 41 % 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.