1,000 in. 5 out.
A killed deal teaches as much as a featured one. This is where the 1,000 listings of the edition went, and why. Names stay out of it: the point is the reason, not the business.
What went, and why.
587 listings were cut at the screen of this edition by rule: not an operating business (a franchise seat, a property, a startup, an equipment sale), language that says sold or under contract, a stated figure the trade cannot produce, or an owner's seat nobody else can hold. The ranking rounds then narrowed 413 survivors to 7 researched to the end. The round-by-round cut log, with the rules that fired and examples, is in Pro.
Checked to the end. Not published as one of the five.
Of these, 2 ended “do not offer”, 0 “proceed with conditions” and 0 “proceed”; 2 could not be identified with confidence and were capped by the identity gate.
The reasons, the rules that fired, the examples.
Pro opens the round-by-round cut log of every edition, the annex files in full, and the whole archive.