Market & strategy
Why the same source keeps you mediocre
Every professional hand that touches a piece before you extracts margin. Switching dealers without switching the SOURCE changes nothing — you're drinking the same water with a different label. Liquidity deals come from tired stock rotating between dealers; discovery comes only from virgin ground: house clearances, intact estates, sellers who don't know. The comfort loop — receive photos, pay, receive piece — is mediocrity with a wire-transfer receipt.
The Method's take
The contaminated-source law: the closer you are to first contact with the object, the higher your margin ceiling. A dealer's 'new supplier' is often another dealer's exit stock — the same pieces, same pricing structure, slightly repackaged. Real margin lives in the statistically messy places: auctions with weak photography, local sales, direct estate contact. Fighting for access to virgin sources — not for better terms with the same intermediary — is the only structural edge that compounds.
The math
A piece priced at €8,000 from your regular source might have entered the chain at €1,200 from an estate three dealers ago — four margins extracted before you. Over twelve months, twenty purchases, that's €80,000–€136,000 in margin you funded but never captured. The annual pass is €3,800. The spread between 'comfortable supplier' and 'direct access discipline' pays for the tool in the first two finds — then it's pure alpha.
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