Is it worth grading Gengar VMAX (Alternate Art Secret)?

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Yes โ€” if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10.
RAW NOW$1023.24TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$2000.00243 completed sales
PSA 9 SOLD$850.00202 completed sales
IF IT GRADES 10+$952after $25 fee

A raw Gengar VMAX (Alternate Art Secret) from SWSH08: Fusion Strike currently sells for about $1023.24. Across 243 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $2000.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $951.76. But a PSA 9 has a median of $850.00 across 202 sales โ€” which works out to โˆ’$198.24 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$2000.00243 sales
CGC10P$2916.5010 sales
CGC10$1253.2226 sales
BGS10$500.001 sales
TAG10$3364.404 sales
ACE10$1521.665 sales
PSA9$850.00202 sales
GRADE9.5$1537.5010 sales
GRADE9$950.0048 sales
PSA8$695.0034 sales
GRADE8$833.0020 sales
GRADE7$674.508 sales
GRADE6$700.009 sales
GRADE5$649.995 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.