Only if the expected graded sale price beats the raw price by more than the full cost of grading, shipping and the extra selling fees. In practice that means cards worth roughly £30+ raw with a realistic shot at a 9 or 10. Run your numbers above — the verdict is instant.

Evollect uses authorised UK completed sales located in Great Britain, including eBay UK data when approved API access is available. Foreign, active and unknown-location listings are never counted as UK comps. Duplicate sales, seller concentration and suspicious price outliers are removed before the median is calculated. If a rare card has fewer than three trustworthy UK sales, the value is clearly labelled as a Cardmarket fallback (or TCGplayer only when Cardmarket has no value).

Look at the card under strong light and a loupe: centering (front and back), surface scratches, edge whitening, and corner sharpness. Pack-fresh modern cards still only gem at roughly 30–50% at PSA. If you can see any whitening with the naked eye, a 10 is essentially off the table.

As of 2026, ACE and TAG tend to have the lowest entry prices, CGC sits in the middle, and PSA commands the highest fees but usually the highest resale premium. A PSA 10 typically outsells a CGC 10 — so the "cheapest" grader isn't always the most profitable. Model both in the calculator.

No. Evollect is intentionally Pokémon-only so its catalogue identity, variants, grading assumptions and UK pricing safeguards can stay focused and understandable.