Community price on backpack.tf: 2.75–3.00 keys, last changed 2024-07-13 (2.1y ago). The live quote above, 2.41 keys, is 12% lower and last moved 6d ago. They are different measures: the quote is what traders and bots are asking and bidding on the classifieds right now, and it moves for thousands of items every day; the community price is a suggestion accepted by vote, which changes only when someone argues it should. A quote well away from the vote is usually a price that is about to be re-argued. Community prices from backpack.tf, read under an hour ago.
Steam Market asking price: $6.40 — the lowest of one listing for the Showstopper effect when we looked on 2026-09-05 01:42 UTC (15h ago). This is what a seller is asking, not what anything sold for. Steam pays out in Steam wallet funds, not cash, and Valve takes roughly 15% at the till — so asking prices there run well above the 2 keys, 26.22 ref shown above, which comes from the keys-and-metal market on backpack.tf. The two are different markets and are never blended. Steam lists the item as “Unusual Taunt: The Carlton”, with no effect in the name — the effect comes from the individual listing.
Price history
43 observations
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Showstopper Taunt: The Carlton sell price, 2025-09-25 to 2026-08-30: 43 observations, from 2.72 keys to 2.41 keys. Sampled evenly across the range.
Observed (UTC)
Sell
Buy
25 SEP 2025 · 03:29 UTC
2.72 keys
1.28 keys
28 SEP 2025 · 23:06 UTC
2.82 keys
2.04 keys
5 OCT 2025 · 22:21 UTC
3.01 keys
2.24 keys
11 OCT 2025 · 08:06 UTC
2.91 keys
1.91 keys
19 OCT 2025 · 22:55 UTC
2.72 keys
2.26 keys
29 OCT 2025 · 00:02 UTC
2.71 keys
2.01 keys
2 NOV 2025 · 10:12 UTC
2.59 keys
2.17 keys
16 NOV 2025 · 22:40 UTC
2.81 keys
1.20 keys
23 NOV 2025 · 10:43 UTC
2.96 keys
1.27 keys
1 DEC 2025 · 00:58 UTC
2.99 keys
2.05 keys
10 DEC 2025 · 16:54 UTC
2.66 keys
2.24 keys
15 DEC 2025 · 02:53 UTC
2.69 keys
2.27 keys
23 DEC 2025 · 05:10 UTC
2.75 keys
1.96 keys
29 JAN 2026 · 01:45 UTC
3.23 keys
1.88 keys
1 FEB 2026 · 23:44 UTC
3.04 keys
2.03 keys
19 FEB 2026 · 06:41 UTC
3.23 keys
1.98 keys
22 FEB 2026 · 18:41 UTC
3.06 keys
1.75 keys
1 MAR 2026 · 00:42 UTC
2.55 keys
1.76 keys
8 MAR 2026 · 22:42 UTC
2.47 keys
2.02 keys
15 MAR 2026 · 22:08 UTC
2.25 keys
1.70 keys
1 APR 2026 · 00:30 UTC
2.41 keys
2.09 keys
12 APR 2026 · 22:30 UTC
2.53 keys
1.95 keys
19 APR 2026 · 22:31 UTC
2.57 keys
2.18 keys
29 APR 2026 · 00:31 UTC
2.16 keys
1.87 keys
7 MAY 2026 · 16:33 UTC
2.10 keys
1.58 keys
10 MAY 2026 · 22:33 UTC
2.21 keys
1.91 keys
17 MAY 2026 · 22:32 UTC
2.19 keys
1.87 keys
1 JUN 2026 · 00:30 UTC
2.22 keys
1.91 keys
8 JUN 2026 · 00:31 UTC
2.19 keys
1.51 keys
15 JUN 2026 · 00:32 UTC
2.18 keys
1.65 keys
22 JUN 2026 · 02:12 UTC
2.24 keys
1.91 keys
29 JUN 2026 · 01:14 UTC
2.24 keys
1.96 keys
5 JUL 2026 · 21:12 UTC
2.16 keys
1.88 keys
24 JUL 2026 · 10:44 UTC
2.18 keys
1.90 keys
29 JUL 2026 · 02:45 UTC
2.29 keys
2.02 keys
7 AUG 2026 · 13:13 UTC
2.33 keys
2.06 keys
17 AUG 2026 · 15:10 UTC
2.32 keys
2.05 keys
28 AUG 2026 · 00:09 UTC
2.44 keys
2.12 keys
30 AUG 2026 · 06:09 UTC
2.44 keys
2.12 keys
30 AUG 2026 · 22:10 UTC
2.41 keys
2.10 keys
Price history in numbers
43 readings since 25 Sep 2025
Over the last 30 days the Showstopper Taunt: The Carlton's sell price ranged from 2.32 keys to 2.44 keys and is up 3.2% after 4 moves. Over a year it ranged from 2.10 keys to 3.23 keys (down 11.6%). Today's 2.41 keys sits in the lower third of its range: the lowest we have recorded is 2.10 keys (7 May 2026) and the highest 3.23 keys (29 Jan 2026). The price has moved 40 times since we began recording it — about once every 8 days.
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