GC shipping a guitar is slower than?

[cardinal]

All this reminds me that I bought what was pictured as a IIC+ combo. The GC store called a few hours later to say "Sorry, dunno where that picture came from, but it really looks like [describes a Mark IIB]." I pressed him to try to figure out what was going on, but after a few minutes it was obvious that whatever they were up to, they were not selling me a IIC+.