Snorlax

What moves the price of this card

The Snorlax on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese VMAX Climax, and it trades at $1.29£0.96€1.15 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 $11.38£8.49€10.18, PSA 9 $16.63£12.40€14.88, CGC/BGS 9.5 $18£13.42€16.10, PSA 10 $62.45£46.57€55.86. PSA has graded 582 copies of it. 403 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Snorlax worth?

A PSA 10 Snorlax from Japanese VMAX Climax sells for $62.45. 85.6% 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 Snorlax from Japanese VMAX Climax worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $55.71 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2.46 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $46.74.

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 $62.45£46.57€55.86. 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.