# One item, two price systems — The Steam Dossier

> Price-ceiling register: 419 CS2 item categories above Valve's ~$1,800 listing cap, with cross-marketplace corroboration and evidential grading.

Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins
Language: en
Publisher: PhishDestroy
Author: PhishDestroy Team

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## Reading

- [Published page](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins)
- [Complete Markdown](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins.html.md)
- [Complete plain-text version](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins/llms-full.txt)
- [Investigation index](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/llms.txt)

## Sections

- [The measurable dollar floor](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#value)
- [Why this is a floor, not an estimate](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#value)
- [What the limit leaves out](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [Sticker | Titan (Holo) | Katowice 2014](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [Sticker | Reason Gaming (Holo) | Katowice 2014](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box (Field-Tested)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [★ Butterfly Knife | Fade (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [EMS Katowice 2014 Legends](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [AK-47 | Wild Lotus (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [StatTrak™ M4A4 | Howl (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [AWP | Gungnir (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [AWP | Dragon Lore (Factory New)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [★ Sport Gloves | Superconductor (Minimal Wear)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#selected)
- [Steam's cap sends price discovery outside Steam](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#hidden-economy)
- [Steam caps the listing](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#hidden-economy)
- [Dragon Lore: $10,940.85](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#hidden-economy)
- [Price and transfer split](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#hidden-economy)
- [The ceiling also catches Dota 2](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#dota)
- [Heroic Brutal Crescent](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#dota)
- [Dark Artistry Cape](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#dota)
- [Corrupted Powered Star](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#dota)
- [The finding does not depend on the exact cap](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#sensitivity)
- [How few of these actually exist for sale](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#scarcity)
- [AWP | Dragon Lore](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#scarcity)
- [M4A4 | Howl](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#scarcity)
- [AK-47 | Wild Lotus](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#scarcity)
- [AWP | Gungnir](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#scarcity)
- [The dearer the item, the further from any observable venue](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#ladder)
- [All 419 observed categories](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#register)
- [Check the calculation](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)
- [Valve’s own ceiling and terms](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)
- [Where the prices come from](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)
- [What we could not obtain](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)
- [The earlier CSFloat register](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)
- [Valve's specific enforcement statement](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)
- [Interpretation boundary](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins#method)

## Evidence and downloads

- [Open the dataset ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-above-the-ceiling.json)
- [Inspect the dated Skinport rows ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/skinport-floor-over-cap.json)
- [Open the float dataset ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-float-scarcity.json)
- [Open the provenance manifest ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-manifest.json)
- [that snapshot remains here ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/csfloat-catalogue.json)