Vulpix

What moves the price of this card

The Vulpix on this page is the 1st Edition printing from Base Set (Shadowless), and it trades at $43.39£32.81€39.26 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 1 $85£64.26€76.91, PSA 5 $43.16£32.63€39.05, PSA 6 $41.74£31.56€37.77, PSA 7 $50.80£38.41€45.96, PSA 8 $57.81£43.71€52.31, PSA 9 $140.76£106.42€127.36, CGC/BGS 9.5 $155£117.19€140.25, PSA 10 $940£710.69€850.52. PSA has graded 4,542 copies of it. 2,253 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Vulpix worth?

A PSA 10 Vulpix from Base Set (Shadowless) sells for $940. 22.8% 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 Vulpix from Base Set (Shadowless) worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $287.37 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $33 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $154.38.

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 $940£710.69€850.52. 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.