[JumpCrisscross]

> escrow would be better than the current situation?

Print shops won’t accept escrow, so you’d still need a guarantor. They’re screwed if escrow is revoked or payment never comes. You also won’t use escrow for a €5,000 donation on account of cost: to the agent, for the contract and in the added search cost for a sponsor.

[hgsgm]

Techfest pays anyway. That's the point. Escrow protects techfest from sponsor reneging, and protects sponsor from techfrst embezzlement.