Sandaconda VMAX (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Sandaconda VMAX (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Chilling Reign, and it trades at $7.33£5.52€6.46 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 9 $18.16£13.67€15.99, CGC/BGS 9.5 $20£15.05€17.61, PSA 10 $35.35£26.61€31.13. PSA has graded 165 copies of it. 215 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Sandaconda VMAX (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Sandaconda VMAX (Secret) from Chilling Reign sells for $35.35. 71.2% 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 Sandaconda VMAX (Secret) from Chilling Reign worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $29.00 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $7.49 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $78.48.

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 $35.35£26.61€31.13. 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.