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[Disruptive_Dave]

That's not a sale. That's a question with absolutely zero investment or action asked of the participant.

Take an actual payment. Even if it's for vaporware (that you can eventually deliver on and that's properly messaged).

[squeaky-clean → Disruptive_Dave]

It's implied when they said sell it that you would take the actual payment.