Pikachu ex — SV08: Surging Sparks #238/191

Pikachu ex

Keep raw This print's numbers don't clear the bar to recommend grading right now.
PSA 10 multiple
3.5×
raw price
PSA 9 outcome
+$49.00
still above break-even
Grading cost
$25.00
flat estimate · PSA bulk
$229.61▲1.6% · 7draw · reference avg · n=7

Market average as of 1 day ago

If you grade it

what each outcome pays after $25.00 cost — and where break-even sits on the line
Keep raw
$229.61
sell as-is · no cost, no risk
baseline
Break-even is here
PSA 9
$303.61
the "miss" outcome — 1.3× raw
+$49.00 after cost
PSA 10
$796.71
the clean outcome — 3.5× raw
+$542.10 after cost
Anything right of the dotted line is profit.

Even a PSA 9 clears cost on this card — the downside is covered. How we compute this → methodology

Premium stability

3.5× means a PSA 10 sells for 3.5 times the raw price — a verdict is a bet on that gap holding
PSA 10 ÷ raw PSA 9 ÷ raw break-even

7-day moving average — daily sale-to-sale noise is smoothed out so the underlying trend reads clean; hover to see that average at any real sale date. Dots after Jul 2, 2026 are that day's grade market average divided by the most recently known raw price — a market signal, not an individual confirmed transaction.

Exit market

when you're done grading — who's buying, what's asking
Exit asks · eBay now
PSA 104 livelowest $890.00
PSA 98 livelowest $270.00
Raw141 livelowest $105.00
all listings on the price page →
Trade flow · sales

Day-by-day trade flow isn't live yet — tracking begins in a follow-up pass.

Grade mix · recent sales

Recent-sales grade mix isn't live yet — tracking begins in a follow-up pass.

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The reasoning

Auto-detected candidate (Chase PSA 10 on measured population data — pTop 34%, EV +$194.19) — pending editorial review.

Full card-specific analysis renders here — written per card, never templated.

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