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Tongue Tied Tim #48a 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition · Light Blue /99 · PSA 9
Light Blue /99
ScarcityNumbered to 99 · PSA has graded 3x more base copies
Print run 99, as stated by PSA’s parallel list. PSA has graded 12 of the base card and 4 of this parallel (all grades). Graded counts are not print runs.
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All grades · value and PSA population
TONGUE TIED TIM ACTIVEno PSA 9 listed on eBay right now
RAW (UNGRADED) — NOT A GRADED VALUE
$32
3 raw sales used for this value
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Price history · PSA 9
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
Straight from the Garbologist's clipboard:
- Nobody's actually sold this exact card and grade on record, so there's no live market to read — the price you see is a modeled estimate, not a realized sale.
- 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.
Tongue Tied Tim — across every card
Subject page →Every Tongue Tied Tim card we track — how the character is moving, not just this one grade.
🧬 Should I slab it?
Keep it rawAbout 1 in 3 copies of 2020 Sapphire Edition Lightblue cards get a 10, and a 9 is worth $49 — less than the $92 it costs to grade. Even a 10 ($72) would leave you about -$20 after costs, not more than raw.
Expected value if gradedunder $0 (the likely slab, $55, is $37 short of the $92 all-in cost)
Raw value today$32 (from 3 raw sales)
VerdictKeep it raw
Even a PSA 10 would not beat the raw value.
Chance of a PSA 10
36%
2020 Sapphire Edition Lightblue cards · 367 graded
PSA 10 value
$72
today · ~$72 by Feb 13, 2027
PSA 9 value
$49
today · ~$49 by Feb 13, 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 ~under $0.
Grade odds (2020 Sapphire Edition Lightblue cards, 367 PSA-graded): 10 · 36%, 9 · 55%, 8 · 6%, 7 or lower · 3%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 13, 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 (2020 Sapphire Edition Lightblue cards, 367 PSA-graded): 10 · 36%, 9 · 55%, 8 · 6%, 7 or lower · 3%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 13, 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.
