Vaporeon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £285.40, raw the card sits at £5.93 — 48,2× as much. Of 1.122 copies already graded, 15 % received a 10 and 51 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £62.19 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 25 auctions the median was £2.98, across 154 fixed-price sales £5.75. Fixed price therefore fetched about 93 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £4.25 and £6.36, with a median of £5.32. 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 £2.98. Offers well below £1.79 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: English £5.59 (269), Italian £5.56 (58). The difference is small — language barely matters here.

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.