Team Rocket's Zapdos (Gamestop Exclusive)

What moves the price of this card

The Team Rocket's Zapdos (Gamestop Exclusive) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Miscellaneous Cards & Products, and it trades at $15.66£11.79€13.79 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 $16£12.04€14.09, PSA 8 $20£15.05€17.61, PSA 9 $27.98£21.06€24.64, CGC/BGS 9.5 $31£23.33€27.30, PSA 10 $104.03£78.30€91.62. PSA has graded 1,848 copies of it. 106 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Team Rocket's Zapdos (Gamestop Exclusive) worth?

A PSA 10 Team Rocket's Zapdos (Gamestop Exclusive) from Miscellaneous Cards & Products sells for $104.03. 61.1% 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 Team Rocket's Zapdos (Gamestop Exclusive) from Miscellaneous Cards & Products worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $73.91 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $19.31 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $45.39.

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 $104.03£78.30€91.62. 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.