Dark Charmeleon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £826.18, raw the card sits at £24.91 — 33.2× as much. Of 4.925 copies already graded, 6 % received a 10 and 32 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £145.07 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 176 auctions the median was £15.26, across 210 fixed-price sales £17.87. Fixed price therefore fetched about 17 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £10.97 and £20.25, with a median of £14.59. 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 £7.98. Offers well below £4.79 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 £19.00 (288), German £10.99 (32). English fetches about 73 % 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.