[codegeek]

If selling, you can get away with bad buyers as long as the deal is mostly cash upfront. However, I would highly advise against buying from a seller you cannot trust. Imagine they already showed you during the deal process when they have an incentive to be nicer. Once you wire the money, you are in for a lot more surprises. I would never buy from a seller who gave me bad vibes. Regardless of how good the deal sounds.

Source: I have bought 3 smaller projects (one for 500k so i guess not indie but still small) and in all 3 cases, the sellers were incredible genuine and truly cared about their company/product. Just because of how trustworthy and helpful they were, I closed the deals quickly after fair negotiations.

I declined 1 deal where the product was a great fit to my exiting business and it would have been a great transition but the seller was too arrogant and I just couldn't trust him. I backed out after exchanging a couple of messages with him.

[johng]

I can see that. We were the sellers and the deals were all cash, after the handoff with the money in escrow prior and a binding arbitration clause if there were disagreements on the hand off. We had zero issues though.