way ahead of you Tex, my string order from Musician's Friend already shipped
the thing is that I have gone to music stores for half a century. When you do enough business with a place that employees know your name when you walk in, it isn't unreasonable to expect that they would stock the consumable things that musicians go through so you can pick them up when you need them.
Why should I be ordering strings online?
especially since I have bought not one, but two classical guitars from that location. That's just the tip of the iceberg, too. Instruments, accessories, sheet music, strings, amps, pedals...lots of stuff
this is the first time in my life that the music store I frequented ever told me they wouldn't keep something in stock for me
so fuck them