Is it worth grading Rayquaza VMAX?

JP: VMAX Climax · 252

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$134.95TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$342.7922 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$149.9911 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$183after $25 fee

A raw Rayquaza VMAX from JP: VMAX Climax currently sells for about $134.95. Across 22 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $342.79. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $182.84. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $149.99 across 11 sales — which works out to −$9.96 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$342.7922 sales
CGC10P$369.7410 sales
CGC10$203.898 sales
TAG10$235.995 sales
GRADE9.5$181.258 sales
GRADE9$149.9911 sales
GRADE8$84.998 sales
GRADE7$57.103 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.