Espeon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £1,042, raw the card sits at £12.95 — 80.5× as much. Of 1.855 copies already graded, 6 % received a 10 and 36 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £127.63 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 56 auctions the median was £7.78, across 253 fixed-price sales £10.79. Fixed price therefore fetched about 39 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £7.46 and £12.61, with a median of £10.02. 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 £4.80. Offers well below £2.88 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 £15.41 (74), English £11.09 (442), German £8.17 (19). Italian fetches about 89 % 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.