Is it worth grading Vaporeon Ex?

JP: Terastal Festival · 205

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$60.00TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$120.1041 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$74.1420 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$35after $25 fee

A raw Vaporeon Ex from JP: Terastal Festival currently sells for about $60.00. Across 41 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $120.10. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $35.10. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $74.14 across 20 sales — which works out to −$10.86 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$120.1041 sales
CGC10P$139.5012 sales
CGC10$97.0016 sales
BGS10$165.258 sales
TAG10$160.0011 sales
ACE10$94.5310 sales
GRADE9.5$76.009 sales
GRADE9$74.1420 sales
GRADE8$50.0011 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.