Dark Charizard

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £21,816, raw the card sits at £855.99 — 25.5× as much. Of 12.251 copies already graded, 5 % received a 10 and 29 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £3,377 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 289 auctions the median was £840.76, across 268 fixed-price sales £731.24. Auctions therefore fetched about 15 % more — worth it mainly for sought-after cards with several bidders.

Half of all sales fell between £284.42 and £596.81, with a median of £461.67. 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 £161.07. Offers well below £96.64 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 £611.24 (203), German £253.43 (24). English fetches about 141 % 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.