Rudy Bekker vs Acquire.com.

Let me be straight: Acquire.com is a good platform. A 4% flat closing fee is the market-low on quality marketplaces. Their SaaS focus attracts the right buyers. The interface is modern, escrow is Escrow.com (standard), and the team runs a legitimate operation.

If I were competing on price alone, this comparison wouldn't be worth writing. I'm not. I'm competing on speed, certainty, and directness.

Here's what a typical Acquire.com sale looks like: you create a listing. Buyers browse. Interested buyers (who paid $390+ for Premium, or more for Platinum tier access) reach out. You run due diligence across multiple interested parties, answering the same questions to different people. The serious buyer emerges, you negotiate, you sign an LOI, you go into a closing window. Total elapsed time: 45–90 days. Closing fee at the end: 4%.

Here's what a direct deal with me looks like: you submit your business on /sell. I look at it the same day. I send a written offer within 24 hours or tell you it's not a fit. If we agree, we sign and I wire within 48 hours. Total elapsed time: 3 days. Fee: 0%.

On a $500K sale, Acquire.com's 4% is $20,000. That's real money. More important: the 45–90 days of running the process yourself is real time you're not building the next thing.

Acquire.com is genuinely the right fit if you have time and want price discovery. Their buyer pool for quality SaaS is real, competitive buyer interest can push final price higher, and 4% is reasonable relative to what brokers charge.

It's also the right fit if you want to see multiple offers before you commit. Some founders sleep better knowing they tested the market. Acquire.com gives you that without paying broker fees.

If you want speed — you've decided to sell, you want cash in the bank, you don't want to run a process — a direct principal buyer gets there in a fraction of the time.