Well thank you for answering my question...and I figured that is what you meant...but you are wrong about something..... When the vendor hedges an item...that has NOTHING to do with the buyer..NOTHING.. That vendor has decided to pay 6% to lock in the price it is at the time you purchase it. And it is actually one of the WORST ....no it is THE WORST thing a vendor can do! In the past 12 months..there has been a 1 week period where the btc went from 13-14 to 10..but it was right back up... and that was the only time it might have made sense.... But even that 1 week it was not the right thing to do... The biggest problem is lets say the vendor is selling a gram of coke for $ 100. And the btc is worth $10. That means the gram cost 10 coins.. so you as a buyer make the purchase and the vendor gets 10 coins put in escrow...notice I said 10 coins...and not 100 dollars.. and after he marks it in transit...the 17 day auto finalize clock begins.. So he is hoping that you the buyer...finalizes that order (10 coins) while they are still worth $10 a piece...now if he hedged it...then it makes no difference when you finalize..as $100 goes into his account in escrow ..and no matter when the buyer finalizes...he will get $100. Now one of the bad things is...not only did he pay 6% for this option...if when the buyer finalizes...the btc went up to $13...it does not matter..he gets $100 or $10 per coin. So he does not see the upside (in this case the extra $30 or 30%)..and as we all know..in the last 12 months..all the btc has done is gone up...and again by the time you finalize who knows how long it is before that vendor converts it to cash... so the vendor paid 6% to lock in $100....not a good deal.. Now if the btc was to go down to $8 a coin his 10 coins would have been worth $80... so you take out the $6 he spent...and in this example it would have been good...but the problem with this example is this has not happened in over a year..and 90% of vendors do not understand that you don't get the upside...SR keeps that!! So if the hedge worked where you paid 6% to lock in a minimum of $10 a coin and you also got to keep whatever the plus side is then it would be a different story...still not a good deal...as it is hard to over come the 6%...but at least as a vendor you would lock in a min price you are going to get...with no max... but this is fantasy..so who cares..lets go back to how it is... A vendor that has an item hedged gets that amount he sold the item for...now back in the day...especially for non domestic vendors that could wait for 17+ days to get there money...they were willing to pay 6% because in that time the coin could go from $8 to $1.25!!!! But in this time and age it is a terrible option for vendors...and I believe it is "left over" and is a HUGE money maker for SR. Now it is the vendors responsibility to learn everything and do their homework...but I can also say it is not exactly explained in great detail anywhere and in fact has a "recommended" next to it when you get a vendor account for the settings...and A LOT of vendors have that box checked in their settings because it has a "recommended" next to it and they do not know what it even is or how it works... So that is the hedge system.....You can see that it has no bearing at all on buyers...