Sell graded Pokémon cards: PSA slabs priced on the call

1. Read us the label

   Have the slab in your hand when you call and read us what is on the label. PSA says its label carries the card’s grade and its certification number, and you can look that number up yourself on PSA’s Cert Verification page, or scan the PSA label or QR code in the PSA App (PSA’s own pages, 16 October 2026). If the record that comes back describes a different card or grade from the one in your hand, mention it when you call.

2. Hear the price before you hang up

   We work the number out while you are still on the line, so you can set it against every other route on this page before you decide anything.

3. Shipping is on us, or we meet you near Los Angeles

   If the number suits you, we handle the shipping and we pay for it. Sellers in the Los Angeles area can meet us in person instead, which keeps a valuable slab out of the mail altogether; where to meet is agreed on the call.

4. Filmed, and paid the way you pick

   Every offer is filmed, so the slab, its label and the state of its case are on record. Payment is cash, Zelle, Cash App or any other way you would rather receive it.

5. If the slab is not what was described

   A slab that turns out different from what you read us, with another grade or another card on the label, gets a re-quote, and if you turn it down we pay to send it back.

Graded slabs have their own section on what we buy, and what protects you when you ship cards to a buyer covers a slab the same way it covers a binder.

Across the 1,326 cards on our 25 Pokémon pages that PriceCharting prices both ungraded and in a PSA 10, the PSA 10 sells for a median 30 times the same card raw. The spread around that is wide: a tenth of the cards carry a premium under 6x, and a tenth carry more than 119x.

• 30xmedian PSA 10 price over the raw card
• 6x–119xthe middle 80% of cards
• 18%a Grade 9 as a share of the PSA 10, median
• 5.5%of cards where a PSA 10 is worth less than raw plus PSA’s $59.99 fee

How many times the raw price a PSA 10 sells for, card by card

• under 5x105 7.9%
• 5x to 10x145 11%
• 10x to 25x340 26%
• 25x to 50x338 25%
• 50x to 100x231 17%
• 100x or more167 13%

One point on the label is where most of that premium goes. PriceCharting’s Grade 9 is a PSA or BGS 9, and on these cards it sells for a median 18% of the PSA 10 price, between 7% and 42% for eight cards in ten, so a 9 typically gives up about 82% of what the same card brings in a 10.

The widest gaps, one card per Pokémon

Ranked by how many dollars a PSA 10 adds over the raw card, with the multiple of the raw price under each PSA 10 figure. Each name opens that Pokémon’s page, where the full grade ladder for the card sits.

Prices from PriceCharting, pulled 8 September to 16 October 2026. These are PriceCharting’s records of what collectors paid one another, not what we pay: a buyer’s offer sits below a collector’s price, and ours is given on the call. PriceCharting also lists 10s from other graders, and they are left out here: its BGS 10, for one, sits at 1.30x the PSA 10, to within 1.2%, on 1,209 of the 1,367 ladders that carry both, which makes it a formula rather than a record of sales.

The cards in the table belong to the Rayquaza, Mew, Mewtwo, Lugia, Charizard, Snorlax, Umbreon and Pikachu pages, and every one of our Pokémon card values from raw to PSA 10 pages carries the same ladder for each card it lists.

Grading costs money and months before it pays anything back. On 16 October 2026, PSA’s pricing page showed its Value services as temporarily paused, which left Standard as the cheapest tier: $59.99 a card, for cards worth up to $1,000, with an estimated 90 to 100 business days that PSA calls estimates only and not guaranteed. A card worth more goes in a dearer tier, from $79.99 for Priority to $599 for Premier, and PSA lists Premium tiers from $999 for cards worth more than $10,000.

Set that fee against the prices above and the answer turns on the grade you would get: a PSA 10 clears raw plus $59.99 on 1,253 of the 1,326 cards, a Grade 9 on only 586. On the other 73 (5.5%), even the top grade would lose money, and a Grade 9 falls short of raw plus the fee on 56% of the 1,326. Both shares leave out the shipping to PSA and back and assume the cheapest open tier, so both are a floor: a card worth over $1,000 pays a dearer tier.

Grading earns its cost on a card that is genuinely close to flawless and whose PSA 10 sits far above its raw price, which is the shape of the cards in the table. For anything else, selling it raw skips a fee that may never come back. If you are not sure which you have, call us before shipping anything to PSA: we price the raw card on the call, which settles one side of the sum, and how selling a whole collection works covers the binder it came out of.

Which route pays more depends on the card, the grade and how much of the selling you want to do yourself, so here is each one with its catch.

• eBay. A wide audience of collectors, and for a slab that sells often, an eBay sale will usually leave you with more than a buyer like us pays, even after its fee. On 16 October 2026, eBay’s selling fees for trading cards were 13.25% of the sale up to $7,500 and 2.35% on any part above it, plus $0.30 or $0.40 an order; on a PSA 10 at the $510 median of our data that comes to about $68, before the shipping and tax that eBay counts in the total. The listing, the photographs, the wait, the packing and the buyer are yours to handle.
• PSA Partner Offers. PSA’s own selling route: cash offers from buyers in its partner network, with PSA handling the sale and no fees on the offer itself, though the original grading and shipping fees still apply. It reaches newly graded cards at the Grades Ready stage, with 24 hours to accept there, and cards stored in the PSA Vault, which can also go to eBay consignment; it is open to a U.S.-based collector 18 and older, and an offer comes only when a partner has asked for that card (PSA, 16 October 2026). It makes sense when you are grading with PSA anyway and the offer beats what eBay would leave you.
• A GameStop counter. At a participating GameStop store, PSA slabs with the Lighthouse label, graded 8, 9 or 10, trade for cash or in-store credit, up to $1,500 a card; the price draws in part on Card Ladder data, and the offer is final (GameStop’s graded-cards page, 16 October 2026). It suits a PSA 8 to 10 slab under that ceiling with a store nearby, but 30% of the PSA 10 prices in our data sit above it.
• A card show. Many dealers under one roof means a slab can be carried from table to table and offered to each, and competition between them is what lifts the price on a card several of them want. The cost is the trip, the time and the haggling, and a card few dealers are hunting for may draw no strong offer at all.
• Us. One call ends with a price for the slab before it is packed; then the shipping is ours, the offer is filmed, and you are paid in cash, Zelle, Cash App or your own choice, or we meet in person around Los Angeles. A buyer pays less than a collector, so we will not claim to beat a well-run eBay sale on a slab that sells every week; we suit the seller who would rather have a number on the phone than list it, wait and deal with a buyer.

A quote from us on the call commits you to nothing, so it can be the first figure you collect rather than the last. Selling more than slabs? There are pages on selling bulk Pokémon cards and on selling Pokémon cards in Los Angeles, and our home page sets out every way we buy.