Venusaur VMAX

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £131.43, raw the card sits at £18.53 — 7,1× as much. Of 2.664 copies already graded, 64 % received a 10 and 29 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £104.32 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 46 auctions the median was £13.53, across 240 fixed-price sales £17.60. 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 £14.21 and £19.04, with a median of £15.82. 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 £10.92. Offers well below £6.55 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 £18.14 (36), English £17.45 (278), German £9.01 (19). Italian fetches about 101 % 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.