Rillaboom VMAX

What moves the price of this card

The Rillaboom VMAX on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese Shiny Star V, and it trades at $3.18£2.38€2.77 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 $11.50£8.62€10.03, PSA 9 $13£9.74€11.34, CGC/BGS 9.5 $14£10.49€12.22, PSA 10 $35.01£26.24€30.55. PSA has graded 457 copies of it. 143 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Rillaboom VMAX worth?

A PSA 10 Rillaboom VMAX from Japanese Shiny Star V sells for $35.01. 93.9% 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 Rillaboom VMAX from Japanese Shiny Star V worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $33.62 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $3.15 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $69.52.

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 $35.01£26.24€30.55. 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.