Is it worth grading Gengar?

JP: Dark Phantasma · 74

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$32.10TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$120.0062 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$52.5826 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$63after $25 fee

A raw Gengar from JP: Dark Phantasma currently sells for about $32.10. Across 62 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $120.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $62.90. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $52.58 across 26 sales — which works out to −$4.52 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$120.0062 sales
CGC10P$102.0021 sales
CGC10$66.5016 sales
BGS10$125.5011 sales
TAG10$121.2510 sales
ACE10$90.4912 sales
GRADE9.5$56.009 sales
GRADE9$52.5826 sales
GRADE8$42.0411 sales
GRADE7$24.2410 sales
GRADE6$22.006 sales
GRADE5$28.493 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.