Dark Charmeleon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £1,431, raw the card sits at £7.31 — 195,7× as much. Of 2.322 copies already graded, 5 % received a 10 and 20 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £366.25 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 230 auctions the median was £4.03, across 611 fixed-price sales £5.20. Fixed price therefore fetched about 29 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £3.28 and £9.18, with a median of £4.69. 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 £2.17. Offers well below £1.30 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 £8.52 (56), Japanese £4.74 (44), English £3.47 (894). German fetches about 146 % 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.