Schoolboy (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Schoolboy (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Fusion Strike, and it trades at $3.77£2.84€3.32 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 $2.95£2.22€2.60, PSA 8 $12.51£9.42€11.02, PSA 9 $13.61£10.24€11.99, CGC/BGS 9.5 $15£11.29€13.21, PSA 10 $43.47£32.72€38.28. PSA has graded 194 copies of it. 229 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Schoolboy (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Schoolboy (Secret) from Fusion Strike sells for $43.47. 40.4% 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 Schoolboy (Secret) from Fusion Strike worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $25.11 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $3.95 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $78.83.

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 $43.47£32.72€38.28. 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.