It looks like there are more tech sellers than buyers in this alliance, and for some reason everyone is scrambling to have tech deals with middlemen go though. It makes much, much more sense if you have 1 buyer and 1 seller to instead look for another tech buyer, and grab another seller from these forums. If you have 2 buyers and 2 sellers, you don't need a middle man. (buyer 1 gives money to seller 1, seller 1 then sends tech to buyer 2. Buyer 2 gives money to seller 2, seller 2 sends tech to buyer 1. viola, no middle man)

Of course if we can manage to bring together even more buyers, the deal gets even better. Normally 1 tech deal uses up 2 aid slots (1 to send, and 1 to receive.) If you can get enough people in on the deal you can make it more beneficial to all. 3 buyers and 3 sellers can do a similar deal to above, except then each buyer is able to get 100 tech for 2 million using 3 aid slots. Or the best possible deal involves 4 buyers and 4 sellers, all able to use 4 aid slots, and all buyers getting 150 tech for 3 million.

Add a note here if any of you tech buyers wants to start doing some smart tech deals instead of throwing away 200K+ to middle men each time you make a deal