It's annoying to see that authors are selling more and more of their work products to third parties WITHOUT checking the background of the new owner first. I refused buying attempts of a few of my plugins which were in the scope of 100k and more because i had a bad feeling with the deal. Before such a deal hurts my reputation as a developer and as a personal Individuum i better refuse it.

It must be greed, a lack of rationality or both to sell to a plugin which is used on 300.000 websites to someone else who definitely has bad intends.

I have no sympathy for such a deal and the participating parties and wish that plugin owners do more background investigations before they think about selling their product.

Might be a good idea to write a publicly available handout for wordpress plugin owners with some tips how to successfully transfer the ownership of a plugin and what to consider before selling a plugin.

It should be in the intend of all of us to prevent such shitty deals.