Flareon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £419.56, raw the card sits at £6.11 — 68,6× as much. Of 690 copies already graded, 17 % received a 10 and 51 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £96.39 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 19 auctions the median was £5.48, across 106 fixed-price sales £6.62. Fixed price therefore fetched about 21 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £4.40 and £7.31, with a median of £5.94. 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 £3.55. Offers well below £2.13 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 £7.25 (55), English £5.94 (179). Italian fetches about 22 % 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.