I rarely buy live stock on line. Number one unless its a WYSIWYG you really dont know if yor getting a good specimen thats healthy. It is very stressful on fish to be shipped and to a lesser extent corals. I used to recieve 300-500 fish weekly at Under The Sea and its was common to have 5-10% losses when the box was opened up to move them to QT tanks. Most will give you a refund or send another one at additional shipping but thats no cosulation to you or your wallet!

Like previously posted...my first and second choice is a LFS, even if I have to special order it through them. The added benefit is it keeps them in buisness so that they can be there for you when you need them the most as opposed to paying FedEx over nite shipping when you have an emergency or wait 4-7 days for on line retailers to ship a package to you. Both have there place, both offer a degree of service the other doesnt.