The buyout price is supposed to be a fixed price. If a person offers the buyout price, then the auction immediately ends and the user gets whatever is auctioned at the cost of the buyout price - that's what mspiggy95 was explaining. A buyout price is meant to be a risk-reward sort of incentive - that is - if you offer the buyout price you automatically get what is offered but at the same time, said person may overpay what the maximum bid would have been otherwise. Meanwhile, those who bid less than the buyout price have a chance at getting what is offered a lot cheaper but risk losing the chance at getting what they want.
Either way, it's not really fair to the user who bid the buyout price first to continue the auction. For the future, maybe not set a buyout price or indicate a preferred range of prices you'd accept for whatever you sell.
Either way, it's not really fair to the user who bid the buyout price first to continue the auction. For the future, maybe not set a buyout price or indicate a preferred range of prices you'd accept for whatever you sell.
