Vaporeon V

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £1,115, raw the card sits at £75.82 — 14.7× as much. Of 10.536 copies already graded, 13 % received a 10 and 52 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £224.50 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 112 auctions the median was £53.47, across 302 fixed-price sales £69.62. Fixed price therefore fetched about 30 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £51.44 and £71.79, with a median of £61.01. 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 £44.62. Offers well below £26.77 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 £84.29 (56), German £70.57 (13), English £67.27 (340). Italian fetches about 25 % 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.