The question is about negative issues that can relatively often occur when ordering from any online shop. Understand some are better than others.
For the first time after many years of keeping SPS I decided to finally try it. There are only 3 online shops in my area as in a maximum of 12hrs in transit. So since they all boast the same quality and care, I just went with the seller that had pieces I wanted.
I ordered a total of 18 frags half first, then the other 9 two weeks later.
I cut all plugs off and dipped the 1" pieces. The first 9 are doing fine. Yesterday the second batch arrived , one milli was RTNing and basically was DOA. I cut it, but it's basically done for.
One piece wysiwyg was shown top down online but 50% of the underside had been STNinig at the shop. So I did surgery to salvage the top, seems probably ok. The vendor did include 2 extra "gift " acros I guess he figured 2 might not make it. How does this compare to overall online experiences? I'm not quite disappointed, yet I'm not super happy either. I guess that feeling is mostly from the corals not being nearly as vibrant as the pics plus the work I had to do to try and save a couple upon arrival.
For the first time after many years of keeping SPS I decided to finally try it. There are only 3 online shops in my area as in a maximum of 12hrs in transit. So since they all boast the same quality and care, I just went with the seller that had pieces I wanted.
I ordered a total of 18 frags half first, then the other 9 two weeks later.
I cut all plugs off and dipped the 1" pieces. The first 9 are doing fine. Yesterday the second batch arrived , one milli was RTNing and basically was DOA. I cut it, but it's basically done for.
One piece wysiwyg was shown top down online but 50% of the underside had been STNinig at the shop. So I did surgery to salvage the top, seems probably ok. The vendor did include 2 extra "gift " acros I guess he figured 2 might not make it. How does this compare to overall online experiences? I'm not quite disappointed, yet I'm not super happy either. I guess that feeling is mostly from the corals not being nearly as vibrant as the pics plus the work I had to do to try and save a couple upon arrival.