Dragonite VSTAR

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £101.93, raw the card sits at £6.39 — 16.0× as much. Of 1.377 copies already graded, 54 % received a 10 and 33 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £74.66 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 60 auctions the median was £3.08, across 285 fixed-price sales £4.49. Fixed price therefore fetched about 46 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £3.44 and £5.09, with a median of £4.12. 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 £2.87. Offers well below £1.72 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: German £4.83 (22), English £4.48 (457). The difference is small — language barely matters here.

Last Sold 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.