Weepinbell (Poke Ball Pattern)

What moves the price of this card

The Weepinbell (Poke Ball Pattern) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese Pokemon Card 151, and it trades at $0.34£0.25€0.30 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 9 $15.53£11.64€13.55, CGC/BGS 9.5 $32.47£24.33€28.33, PSA 10 $46.56£34.89€40.63. PSA has graded 589 copies of it. 69 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Weepinbell (Poke Ball Pattern) worth?

A PSA 10 Weepinbell (Poke Ball Pattern) from Japanese Pokemon Card 151 sells for $46.56. 86.2% 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 Weepinbell (Poke Ball Pattern) from Japanese Pokemon Card 151 worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $41.98 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $15.61 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $73.62.

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 $46.56£34.89€40.63. 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.