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SHEL GAME ACTIVE🟢 lowest on eBay: $206.98 all-in
🛒 1 listing on eBay now PSA 10 SLAB
RAW (UNGRADED) — NOT A GRADED VALUE
$4
6 raw sales used for this value
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Price history · PSA 10
On-the-record sales go back as far as PSA reports them — late 2017 for GPK — plus eBay-tracked and raw sales as they land.
🗑️ The Garbologist says…
Too Thin To Call
The Garbologist popped the lid on this card.
- Only 1 recorded sale on the books — not enough for a trend without kidding ourselves. The last one changed hands at $132 on 2025-02-02.
- With this little to go on, the honest answer is we can't call a direction — one auction would swing the whole read.
Automated analysis generated from this card’s real recorded sales and PSA population data — no opinions, no predictions guaranteed. Entertainment and research only, not financial advice.
Shel Game — across every card
Subject page →Every Shel Game card we track — how the character is moving, not just this one grade.
🧬 Should I slab it?
Only if you're confident it's a 10About 1 in 2 copies of 1988 GPK cards get a 10, and a 9 is worth $30 — less than the $92 it costs to grade.
Expected value if gradedunder $0 (the likely slab, $84, is $8 short of the $92 all-in cost)
Raw value today$4 (from 6 raw sales)
VerdictOnly if you're confident it's a 10
Break-even: you need about a 54% chance of a PSA 10 (all 1988 GPK cards: 44%).
Chance of a PSA 10
44%
all 1988 GPK cards · 10,066 graded
PSA 10 value
$157
today · ~$157 by Feb 12, 2027
PSA 9 value
$30
today · ~$30 by Feb 12, 2027
All-in cost
$92
PSA fee $60 + shipping both ways $32
How these numbers work
All-in cost $92: PSA Standard tier fee $60 per card, insured shipping to PSA ~$12, PSA insured return shipping ~$20. Sending it to your PSA Vault instead skips return shipping (vault intake and storage are free): ~$72 all-in, so a graded copy would net ~$12.
Grade odds (all 1988 GPK cards, 10,066 PSA-graded): 10 · 44%, 9 · 38%, 8 · 9%, 7 or lower · 8%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 12, 2027): today's values (the set has no clear 3-month trend).
Expected value if graded = each grade's chance × its value, minus the all-in cost. A guide, not a guarantee — centering and corners on your copy decide the grade.
Grade odds (all 1988 GPK cards, 10,066 PSA-graded): 10 · 44%, 9 · 38%, 8 · 9%, 7 or lower · 8%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 12, 2027): today's values (the set has no clear 3-month trend).
Expected value if graded = each grade's chance × its value, minus the all-in cost. A guide, not a guarantee — centering and corners on your copy decide the grade.
Shel Game #581a Die-Cut 1988 Garbage Pail Kids value by grade
| Grade | Value | Sales | PSA pop |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $157 | 1 | 3 |
| PSA 9 | $30 est. | 0 | 3 |
| PSA 8 | $21 est. | 0 | 1 |
| PSA 5 | $11 est. | 0 | 1 |
| PSA 4 | $10 est. | 0 | 1 |
Every grade of this card on one page. Est. = no sale at that grade yet. Tap a grade above to switch the whole page to it.
