Tapu Bulu GX

What moves the price of this card

The Tapu Bulu GX on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $2.90£2.18€2.55 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 $13.25£9.97€11.67, PSA 8 $22.50£16.93€19.82, PSA 9 $28.57£21.50€25.16, CGC/BGS 9.5 $31£23.33€27.30, PSA 10 $42.63£32.09€37.54. PSA has graded 73 copies of it. 217 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Tapu Bulu GX worth?

A PSA 10 Tapu Bulu GX from SM Promos sells for $42.63. 11.0% 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 Tapu Bulu GX from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $24.08 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $77.91.

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 $42.63£32.09€37.54. 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.