Hop's Snorlax (GameStop) (Cosmos Holo)

What moves the price of this card

The Hop's Snorlax (GameStop) (Cosmos Holo) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Miscellaneous Cards & Products, and it trades at $26.74£20.13€23.55 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 7 $14.95£11.25€13.17, PSA 8 $24.89£18.73€21.92, PSA 9 $42.11£31.69€37.08, CGC/BGS 9.5 $45£33.87€39.63, PSA 10 $523.95£394.35€461.43. PSA has graded 1,004 copies of it. 129 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Hop's Snorlax (GameStop) (Cosmos Holo) worth?

A PSA 10 Hop's Snorlax (GameStop) (Cosmos Holo) from Miscellaneous Cards & Products sells for $523.95. 9.6% 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 Hop's Snorlax (GameStop) (Cosmos Holo) from Miscellaneous Cards & Products worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $82.99 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $27.93 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $44.93.

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 $523.95£394.35€461.43. 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.