Swablu

What moves the price of this card

The Swablu on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese VSTAR Universe, and it trades at $13.80£10.29€12.34 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 $9.50£7.08€8.50, PSA 9 $15.35£11.45€13.73, CGC/BGS 9.5 $17£12.68€15.21, PSA 10 $42.52£31.71€38.04. PSA has graded 6,365 copies of it. 341 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Swablu worth?

A PSA 10 Swablu from Japanese VSTAR Universe sells for $42.52. 80.7% 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 Swablu from Japanese VSTAR Universe worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $37.16 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $11.80 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $74.63.

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 $42.52£31.71€38.04. 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.