Charizard ex

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £176.72, raw the card sits at £8.64 — 20,5× as much. Of 5.744 copies already graded, 16 % received a 10 and 59 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £42.93 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 11 auctions the median was £12.75, across 37 fixed-price sales £7.32. Auctions therefore fetched about 74 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £5.10 and £8.94, with a median of £6.53. 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 £3.99. Offers well below £2.39 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 £6.27 (31), German £5.94 (27). The difference is small — language barely matters here.

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.