Bulbasaur (Detective Pikachu Stamped)

What moves the price of this card

The Bulbasaur (Detective Pikachu Stamped) on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $20.51£15.44€18.06 in near mint condition. Only one printing of this card was produced, so there is no cheaper version to confuse it with.

Graded, it runs PSA 8 $27.50£20.70€24.22, PSA 9 $11.95£8.99€10.52, CGC/BGS 9.5 $13£9.78€11.45, PSA 10 $67.41£50.74€59.37. PSA has graded 190 copies of it. 148 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Bulbasaur (Detective Pikachu Stamped) worth?

A PSA 10 Bulbasaur (Detective Pikachu Stamped) from SM Promos sells for $67.41. 14.2% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.

Is Bulbasaur (Detective Pikachu Stamped) from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $23.76 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $19.24 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $95.47.

Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $67.41£50.74€59.37. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.