Is it worth grading Gengar?

CN: Gem Pack 3 · 307

Yes — if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$179.99TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$460.0025 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$165.5019 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$255after $25 fee

A raw Gengar from CN: Gem Pack 3 currently sells for about $179.99. Across 25 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $460.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $255.01. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $165.50 across 19 sales — which works out to −$39.49 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$460.0025 sales
CGC10P$611.378 sales
CGC10$250.009 sales
BGS10$593.508 sales
TAG10$510.0014 sales
ACE10$246.315 sales
GRADE9.5$269.366 sales
GRADE9$165.5019 sales
GRADE8$198.258 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.