The rules of the marketplace, without the theatre

MicroExits is a marketplace. We give sellers a place to list small internet businesses, give buyers a way to find and evaluate them, verify what can be verified, and provide the tooling — messaging, offers, escrow orchestration, dispute handling — that lets a deal close.

We are not a broker, we are not a party to the transaction, and we are not your agent, adviser, or fiduciary. The deal is between the buyer and the seller. We do not represent either side, negotiate on your behalf, or take ownership of anything being sold. When a deal closes, it is you and your counterparty who have contracted with each other — not you and us.

You need an account to make offers, message, or transact. Browsing and listing are open before you complete identity verification; funding escrow and receiving payouts are not. You are responsible for your account: keep your credentials safe, enable two-factor, and don't share access. Anything done through your account is treated as done by you.

Sellers must list accurately and may only list businesses they actually own and are entitled to sell. Listings go through review before they go live, and we can decline or remove a listing that breaks these terms.

When a listing shows a verified figure, it means the seller connected their own provider read-only and we pulled the number straight from the source. That is strong evidence — much stronger than a screenshot — but it is exactly that: evidence supplied by the seller's provider, not a warranty by us.

A verified figure is a point-in-time snapshot carrying the date it was pulled. It is not a live feed and it does not update itself — a business verified this quarter may be doing more or less by the time you buy. We do not guarantee that any figure is complete, current, or predictive. Buyers must do their own diligence and use the inspection window before confirming a deal. See how verification works for exactly where each check stops.

Every deal settles through a licensed third-party escrow provider that holds the funds for the whole transaction. MicroExits is not a money transmitter and never holds user funds. We orchestrate the flow inside our interface — line items, status, release, disputes — but custody of the money sits with the provider throughout, and their own terms govern the funds they hold.

Funding is by wire or ACH into the provider, never to us. After the assets are delivered, the buyer has an inspection window to confirm; if the buyer goes silent the funds auto-release at the end of it, and opening a dispute freezes that release. Nobody at MicroExits will ever ask you to wire funds anywhere other than the escrow provider — a request to do so is a fraud signal, and you should stop and report it.

• Sellers pay a success fee only on completed deals. It is deducted from escrow at payout, so you never pay out of pocket, and it is charged at the rate shown on the pricing page.
• Buyers pay no platform fee. Ever. There is no buyer subscription and no buyer-side success fee.
• The escrow provider's own fee is separate from our success fee. It is split between buyer and seller (50/50 by default, configurable per deal) and itemized transparently — it is not our revenue.
• Seller Pro is an optional subscription that lowers the success fee and adds seller tooling, at the price and rate shown on the pricing page. Crucially, the discounted rate is locked at the time you agree a deal, based on your subscription status then — you can't subscribe after agreeing a price to shave the fee, and you won't lose the discount if you cancel mid-deal.

A deal locks its fee terms — schedule version, rate, and escrow split — at the moment an offer is accepted, so later pricing changes never alter a deal already in flight.

You may not use MicroExits to find a counterparty and then take the deal off-platform to avoid the success fee. It undercuts the model that keeps the platform free for buyers and cheap for sellers, and it strips both sides of the escrow, audit trail, and dispute path that protect them.

To enforce this, contact details in messages are automatically masked until an offer is accepted, and we retain the original unmasked text of pre-acceptance messages so our trust & safety team can review circumvention attempts. This is stated plainly in our privacy page. Repeated attempts to move a deal off-platform can cost you your account.

Don't use the platform to:

• Post false, inflated, or fabricated metrics, or pass off analytics from a property you aren't selling.
• List or sell an asset you don't own or aren't entitled to transfer.
• Impersonate someone, evade identity verification, or launder funds.
• Attempt to defraud a counterparty, or move a deal off-platform to dodge fees or protections.
• Probe, scrape, or attack the platform's security.

If a deal goes wrong, opening a dispute inside the inspection window freezes the escrow release. Our team then reviews the deal timeline, transfer evidence, message history, and verification record in one view and decides to release, partially refund, or refund, with a written resolution note on the record.

This is a good-faith administrative process, not binding arbitration and not a court. It is how we apply the escrow provider's rules and our own to a contested deal. It does not replace, and does not take away, whatever legal rights you and your counterparty have against each other.

You can close your account at any time. We can suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms, poses a fraud or security risk, or is required to be closed by law. Where a deal or dispute is in flight, we may keep the account's access to that deal open long enough to resolve it. Immutable audit records tied to money movements survive termination, as described in the privacy page.

To be as clear as we can about the edges of what this platform does:

• We don't guarantee a listing's figures. Verification proves what a provider reported on a date. It does not certify that the number is complete or that it will hold.
• We don't value businesses. We show evidence and let the market price it. Nothing on the platform is an appraisal, a valuation, or investment advice.
• We don't guarantee a sale. Listing a business does not mean it will sell, at any price or at all.
• Verification is a point-in-time check that can go stale. A snapshot from last quarter is not a promise about this one. Read the as-of date and re-check before you rely on it.

The platform is provided as-is. Because we are not a party to your deal and do not warrant listings' figures, we are not liable for the outcome of a transaction between a buyer and a seller, including a counterparty's misrepresentation, a business that underperforms after sale, or a dispute's result. To the extent the law allows, our liability to you for anything arising out of using the platform is limited. This does not exclude any liability that cannot legally be excluded — the exact limits are one of the things a lawyer needs to set before launch.

If we change how the platform works, we will update this page and move the “last updated” date. Continuing to use MicroExits after a change means you accept the updated terms. For anything unclear, contact support through your account.