[Silly]

It's different because the fixed-price transaction NEVER has the possibility of becoming an auction. The Buy-It-Now item might be purchased at the set price, but it has the possibility of becoming an auction, too.

This is NOT brain surgery, folks.

[dpwiener]

It's different because the fixed-price transaction NEVER has the possibility of becoming an auction. The Buy-It-Now item might be purchased at the set price, but it has the possibility of becoming an auction, too.

Not if you set the Buy-It-Now price right above the Starting-Bid price. For example, if the Starting-Bid price is $60 and the Buy-It-Now price is $60.01, anyone who wants to bid is just going to buy it at $60.01. Yeah, in theory someone could bid exactly $60 and force it into an actual auction which would either end several days later at $60 or cause the item to be bid up above the $60.01 level. But for all intents and purposes the above scenario represents a fixed price offering.