In the interest of making progress on the Avalon 741 Group Buy I would like to make a suggestion. Instead of asking Canaan to change their payment policy, can the Group change it's payment currency to match Canaan's policy?
This could be done using a payment service that accepts Bitcoin to make international wire transfers in USD. There is a company called Bitwala that provides this type of service. They appear to hold an exchange rate for a short period of time which could reduce our risk/cost.
https://www.bitwala.com/btc-to-usd/The company is active on this forum (user name bitwala)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=944782.0I think at the least we should ask for a rate quote, what do you think?
(I have no experience or association with Bitwala)