Is it worth grading Poliwhirl?

JP: Scarlet & Violet 151 · 176

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$16.99TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$91.1628 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$40.0410 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$49after $25 fee

A raw Poliwhirl from JP: Scarlet & Violet 151 currently sells for about $16.99. Across 28 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $91.16. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $49.17. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $40.04 across 10 sales — which works out to −$1.95 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$91.1628 sales
CGC10P$68.009 sales
CGC10$40.0011 sales
BGS10$70.005 sales
TAG10$142.508 sales
ACE10$48.978 sales
GRADE9.5$29.9910 sales
GRADE9$40.0410 sales
GRADE8$20.009 sales
GRADE6$10.003 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.