Is it worth grading Pikachu ex - 277/217?

ME: Ascended Heroes · 277/217

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$366.26TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$1001.0028 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$361.0023 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$610after $25 fee

A raw Pikachu ex - 277/217 from ME: Ascended Heroes currently sells for about $366.26. Across 28 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $1001.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $609.74. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $361.00 across 23 sales — which works out to −$30.26 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$1001.0028 sales
CGC10P$1124.494 sales
CGC10$565.0010 sales
BGS10$2025.0013 sales
TAG10$1400.009 sales
ACE10$726.049 sales
GRADE9.5$650.0011 sales
GRADE9$361.0023 sales
GRADE8$340.008 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.