If you want to stay with the lfs then you are willing to live with the trade off. Local fish store is limited selection and online is unlimited selection. Kenny is going to post his September soon to be sold out shipment in a few hours. The selection is huge and those fish do not arrive anywhere dead. Unless the Fed Ex bozo runs a forklift blade though the like Fort Knox packaging that Kenny provides. So you pay for shipping. So you pay for limited selection potentially disease ridden second rate fish. For me I would pay the cost of shipping. It is more expensive to ship one fish than it is to ship 3 fish for the same cost. Shipping costs can be controlled by the size of the order. Some online sellers ship free with orders larger than 500 beans.