Market & strategy
Why timing matters more than authenticity
A genuine piece bought at its record price defrauds you like a forgery — record conditions don't repeat, and you've just bought someone else's exit. The market is too efficient for charity: a genuine work offered cheap after peak fashion means you're holding manufactured liquidity for those who accumulated first. Timing dictates whether authenticity pays you or costs you.
The Method's take
The Method applies the timing-is-the-biggest-fake doctrine: records are EXIT signals for a category, never entry signals. A genuine work purchased after its fashion peak or record auction becomes dead capital — margin lives at purchase, never in hope. Discipline: buy the genuinely great piece cheap when nobody cares, or don't buy at all.
The math
Buying a genuine work at €50,000 after its €80,000 record — expecting the 'next record' — typically nets you five years of storage rent, insurance, and a distressed sale at €30,000–35,000 when fashion turns: a €20,000+ real loss on a certificate-perfect piece. The 24-hour pass costs €100; the annual pass €3,800. Mistiming one mid-tier buy pays for decades of method access.
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