I'm thinking of organizing a group buy. I'v been in contact with the manufacture. The only hard thing about escrow when doing group buys is that the manufactures need payment in full, so escrow is hard to do unless the person organizing the group buy is made of $100k +
i can't argue with that but a lot of people here are willing to pay upfront (just check out the scam accusation section as proof lol)
so i guess it wouldn't mean that the organiser would have to pay the full thing upfront or even just going something like paypal