Garbodor

What moves the price of this card

The Garbodor on this page is the Holofoil printing from XY - BREAKpoint, and it trades at $1.44£1.08€1.27 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 7 $8£6.02€7.05, PSA 8 $10.50£7.90€9.25, PSA 9 $18.82£14.16€16.57, CGC/BGS 9.5 $21£15.81€18.49, PSA 10 $38.29£28.82€33.72. PSA has graded 44 copies of it. 215 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Garbodor worth?

A PSA 10 Garbodor from XY - BREAKpoint sells for $38.29. 9.7% 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 Garbodor from XY - BREAKpoint worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $16.16 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $1.12 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $84.95.

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 $38.29£28.82€33.72. 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.