Did you try messaging the vendor and tell them about the ludicrous price for their shipping? I believe 99.8% of vendors list there prices in dollars....he must be the .02 that has them in btc...as that shipping price is ridiculous.. On a side note...the question you asked originally ...would make zero difference. The hedge option is just for the vendor and has NOTHING to do with the buyer. When you are a vendor, and you hedge an item, you are paying SR 6% to guarantee that whenever the buyer finalizes...the price you get for the coins..is the exact same as when the item was bought. That means up or down you get the price the btc was valued at in SR at the time the buyer paid for the item. This is something that could be useful if you are a vendor that has items that could take more then 5 days for the buyer to finalize...or in some weeks. And they don't want to gamble/take the risk of coins going way down in that time. Also you can't choose to hedge single items. Either all your items are hedged or none. The problem is that over the past 13 months...the btc has only gone up... And when you hedge you don't get the upside. So if your item sells for $50 then you get $50 whenever the buyer finalizes. Now lets say at the time you sold the item the btc was valued at $50 per coin. So the buyer paid 1 coin. Well in your account you only see $50. Not the 1 btc. So if the btc is valued at $100 at the time the buyer finalizes in 2 weeks...well you will get in your account the amount of btc that equals $50....in this case you would get .5 btc......Minus of course the 6% juice you paid. I think there are a lot of vendors that don't understand this..but there seems to be a even more buyers that do not understand. So even if the buyer had the item hedged it would not change what YOU paid as you know exactly what you are going to pay before you put in your pin # to buy the item. And of course the shipping is included in that final price. It is not separate. So if I am selling a pill for $30.00 each and the btc is worth $30 at the time of the sale and it is hedged, I of course will get $30 for that pill when the buyer finalizes. In fact in our accounts there is a tab for BTC and for dollars when our items are in escrow...if you are a vendor that does not use the hedge system, like myself, then that is always $0. So what I see is the number of btc I have in escrow, the number of btc i have in my account that are mine, and then I see the value of the coins I have in my account minus what is still in escrow. I would have to take a calculator out to figure what the escrow account is valued at. If I was to use the hedge system, I would not see the btc in escrow as that would be zero. And in the hedge box I would see a US dollar value. And that dollar value stays the exact same regardless of what the btc is doing...so the amount in my account of the btc's I have is always going up and down...but if I were to use the hedge system, the value of my escrow account waiting for the items to be finalized would never be changing. So either way it does not affect the buyer what so ever. Now there is a way the hedge option could affect you....if you were to put an order in with an un-hedged order..and that vendor refunded you..he would be refunding you the actual amount of btc you paid. Not the dollar amount you paid. If it is a hedged item, you will get a refund the dollar amount you paid....not the btc amount. I think that is what confuses people. I have had people place an order on Saturday at 5pm my time..so there is no way for me to ship it until Monday. So when they bought the item btc was worth $50 each. Now on Monday it is 10am and I still have not shipped it...but now btc has gone up to $60 a coin, so they have messaged me to please cancel the order so they can re order at the new price of the btc. It is bullshit but I understand so I will cancel the order...but I will not let them reorder. Because if it go's the other way, I would never cancel the order. The real truth is that every single buyer on here only gets btc because they have to use it to make a purchase. So they should get the btc, make the purchase and care less what the btc value is. But of course greed is natural and if people can make a few bucks they will. And that is what it usually means..... few bucks.