Our aim is to hold sufficient product inventory to ship your entire order to you quickly. On the other hand, even though our warehouse is climate-controlled, we aim to limit quantities to anticipated demand levels so products do not sit there very long. We time these things carefully so you receive the freshest products.
On rare occasions we do not accurately predict customer demand and sell out of our warehouse stock for a few days. In these cases, we usually allow additional orders of these products to take place while the manufacturer is sending us a new shipment (please note that the sold-out products are typically listed as "on backorder").
When a product is backordered that means it is currently out of stock in our warehouse. However, every few days we receive new product shipments from manufacturing. That means your order is likely to be delayed only 1-4 days.
If there are longer delays (very rare), we are able to ship partial orders. That means we can ship the in-stock items you ordered right away and then ship your backordered items when they are in-stock with us again. In either case, our goal is to get all your items delivered to you quickly.