Thank you for the response.
The only 3 gear bikes that they had there were higher end bikes outside my price range. The Phat bikes all were coaster/gearless. Now that you tell me that you've never heard of them and that I cannot find anything about them online makes me question their quality.
I'm not opposed to getting a different style of bike. I just want comfort and whenever I search comfort bike it comes to beach cruisers so that's why I was drawn to them. These bikes say they're comfort bikes but it looks like you would have to hunch to hold the handlebars and that was what I was trying to avoid with the cruisers, but maybe I'm wrong from just viewing the pictures.
There are two things that I worry about with getting it online though:
-Not being able to test it out first.
-Cost of shipping/assembly by a LBS. (I wouldn't trust putting it together myself.)
Do bike shops look down on people that don't buy bikes from them and choose to get one online? Will they charge me more to assemble because I didn't buy their product?