I understood you totally. But you are saying a few different things. In this last message that I have quoted... Both things you put in parenthesizes happen to be correct! Sorry  Also you are using the word hedged to in the wrong sense. I know what you mean to say. But there is also what I explained earlier...that a vendor could be one that hedges his items or a vendor that doe snot hedge. Either way that would in no way affect you the buyer and in no way would that affect the shipping price. If you read what you are saying in this message you are saying that an item is set to the dollar but the shipping is set to the btc. Well in fact both are set to the same thing and in this day and age...99.8% of vendors have their listings pegged to the dollar not the btc. You are using the word hedged. But hedging is different all together. So to go back to your original question, yes you are just missing that the shipping actually fluctuates. Just like the item price to the ever changing bit coin. So you are always going to pay the same price in dollars but obviously not in btc. So when the vendor had $90 shipping it was a mistake by the vendor...that is why he changed it. And yes you have just missed it. But your original question was can you hedge shipping because when you wrote that you assumed incorrectly that the shipping did not move but the item did. When in fact both do. As we set shipping and item price to the dollar. But your question was can shipping be hedged. Well that question is a no. As shipping is "included" for all practical reasons when a vendor is in fact on the hedge system But again that is just for him and not you. So basically you asked the wrong questions based on your thought process of the way shipping works as you thought that it did not fluctuate based in part on seeing a $90 shipping price..from not 1 vendor but a couple. But I believe I have it covered and I have your questions answered! Did I say it correctly?