Mewtwo #14

Raw vs graded

$24.33 is a raw (ungraded) Near Mint price. A graded slab is a different product with its own price. What published hobby guides say about each grade on a modern card:

• ●This pageRaw Near Mint$24.33

  Ungraded. TCGplayer’s Near Mint allows minor flaws (up to 3 slight imperfections and centering as far off as 70/30), so a raw Near Mint price is not the price of a card guaranteed to grade 10.

• ▲Usually above rawPSA 10

  Usually sells for more than a raw Near Mint copy. Hobby guides describe the gap as a multiple of the raw price but do not agree on its size, and say it changes with demand for the card and with how many 10s exist.

  PSA 10 on eBay ↗

• ≈Guides disagreePSA 9

  Sells for clearly less than a PSA 10. Hobby guides disagree on how a 9 compares with a raw Near Mint copy: some say moderately more, others about the same or less.

  PSA 9 on eBay ↗

• ≈May not add valuePSA 8 and lower

  Does not reliably add value on a modern card: one hobby guide says a PSA 8 or lower often sells for less than a raw Near Mint copy. No guide we checked compares a half grade such as 8.5 with a raw copy.

• Every graded copy, any company and any grade.

  All graded copies on eBay ↗

The eBay buttons in this panel are affiliate links: if you buy after clicking, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The PSA 10 and PSA 9 buttons ask eBay for those words in the listing title, and the third for the name of a grading company (PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC or Beckett). eBay’s matching is not exact and a search can come back empty, so read the grade on the label in the photos. The 12% below market figure does not apply to a slab.

The same grade does not sell for the same price from every company: hobby guides say PSA slabs usually sell for the most in Pokémon, with CGC somewhat lower. None of this includes the grading fee, which depends on the company and the service level: if a graded copy sells for less than the raw price plus the fee, grading that card was not a gain. This is what published guides say, not a measured price for this card: Pullnomics has no graded prices. Guides: how to verify a graded card and raw vs graded.