Market Research: Buying local vs. online. Please help!

[BlueAbyss]

Originally Posted by lastlight

What type of tank are you running btw?

Right now, a 10 gallon with 5 gallon sump. I used the Solana as an example, since I've found some but I really don't want to have something that large (expensive, heavy, fragile!) shipped to me. So I'm stuck with the tanks Wally world sells. When I put perishability first, I was thinking of livestock rather than dry goods (lots of dry goods aren't overly fragile, but livestock has about 48 hours or so to get to you before it's done).

As far as the difference between buying local and buying online, since I live a looooong ways from the closest LFS, personally there's no contest. I either have to go to the city and buy stuff (which limits me to what is in stock at the time... often, not much ) or order online. Specially livestock, unless I just want a Nemo and some xenia (pretty much all they had in the last store I was in).