Wow that's a lot of travelling for a cage.

When I got my first hamster heaven we went to our local pets at home and I noticed that there was loads of parts missing too and it was the last one left so we went to another store about 3 miles away and they had a few hamster heavens with the parts all bagged up. Much nicer and more helpful staff than our local pets at home too. Only drawback was I saw my little chinese girl all on her own and she had a bit of a funny nose so I thought no one would buy her so next day we went back and got her.

Can't wait to see yours all set up.