this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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You can do due diligence as a buyer forever but if the seller lies or doesn't disclose... Problems like these happen. Lawsuits are potentially incoming to figure that one out.
This is why any good merge and acquisition contract have stipulations that update the price of the transaction 6 months or a year after purchase.
Then you sue them to cover the differential
Commercial litigation is expensive AF and unpredictable. Ideally, good DD should prevent it.
But yeah, once you are fucked, get you a team of legal whores lol
So the lifetime subscription offer was not in the subscription list anymore at the time of purchase?