Zapdos

What moves the price of this card

The Zapdos on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $13.87£10.44€12.21 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 $10.11£7.61€8.90, PSA 8 $25.04£18.85€22.05, PSA 9 $72.91£54.88€64.21, CGC/BGS 9.5 $80£60.21€70.45, PSA 10 $654.92£492.92€576.77. PSA has graded 176 copies of it. 113 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Zapdos worth?

A PSA 10 Zapdos from SM Promos sells for $654.92. 9.1% 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 Zapdos from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $98.01 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $9.20 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $11.18.

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 $654.92£492.92€576.77. 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.