The adjacent tool class for GMC Marketplace is not a feed optimiser. It is the general business-for-sale market: Flippa-style listing sites, boutique brokers, and Facebook or Discord groups. Those channels can surface a store. They are not built around Merchant Center history, anonymous contract signing, or a payout that waits on buyer confirmation.

What the generic class is good at

• Reach: many categories of online business, not only GMC-aged ecommerce.
• Price discovery in a broad buyer pool.
• Sometimes a broker-led process — still usually a generic asset sale, not a Merchant Center handover playbook.

What they typically do not do (and we do)

• Show GMC-specific listing fields (age, feed countries, reinstated flag, Shopify Payments, ad metrics) that admin reviews before the listing is public.
• Keep negotiation on a recorded deal chat with an admin in the thread.
• Issue a per-deal Asset Purchase Agreement, signed in-platform as two anonymous counterparts, with payment blocked until both signatures exist.
• Hold settlement funds and pay the seller only after the buyer confirms store, domain, and advertising access moved.

This is not a claim that other marketplaces are fraudulent. It is a claim about fit: if the asset is a Merchant Center store, the deal needs GMC-aware diligence and a handover contract, not only a listing page.

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