Alakazam just went up 115.2% in 30 days.
Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #9. From $12.00 to $25.83 raw.
145 sales in the last 90 days, and the 30-day median is running 115% ahead of the 90-day. Real demand, not one lucky listing.
A Destined Rivals half booster box runs about $293.
Open it and you get roughly $140 of cards on average. That's 48% of what you paid.
Buying the full set as singles would cost around $2,036 - so the maths depends entirely on what you actually want.
Politoed just went up 61.9% in 30 days.
Skyridge #H23, PSA 10. From $5,250 to $8,500.
9 of 13 sales in the window moved with it. Raw the same card is about $401 - the slab is doing 24x the work.
Slowbro-EX, Evolutions #26. Raw it's $3.05. In PSA 10 it's $120.
And 46.2% of submissions come back a 10 - better odds than most vintage.
Still not worth grading. The $71 fee eats it: about -$8 on average across every grade.
A big multiple on a cheap card is still a cheap card.
Moltres just went up 95.0% in 30 days.
Majestic Dawn #10. From $20.00 to $39.00 raw.
41 sales in the window. And a PSA 10 of the same card is worth about $24,600 - only 16 of 303 graded copies have ever hit a 10.
What was the first card that made you think "wait, this might actually be worth something"?
Not the most valuable one you own now. The one that started it.
Would you rather own a PSA 9 with perfect centering, or a PSA 10 that's visibly off?
One grades better. The other looks better in the binder.
Which one goes in your collection?
Centering is the one grade factor you can measure before you pay a grading fee.
Photograph the card, tap the four corners, and you get the border ratios plus the best PSA grade centering alone would allow.
Measure a card: https://t.co/SvEYBs8xdF
Four different Skyridge cards are on the gainers board right now.
Machamp #H15, raw: +127.4%
Politoed #H23, PSA 10: +61.9%
Kabutops #150, PSA 10: +58.0%
Kabutops #H13, PSA 10: +56.9%
One 2003 set, four separate cards, all moving on completed sales in the same window.