kire717
6/5/2018: I bought this monitor through Amazon Warehousedeals so take this review with a grain of salt. The description of the item was that it would come repackaged and that that was the only difference - it did and thats fine and what I expected, sure Ill take different packing to save $45. Upon unboxing it, I immediately noticed that the back of the monitor had some noticeable scuffing and cosmetic damage. This was NOT listed in the warehouse deal description. Okay, not great but I can deal with it. I ran some test youtube videos with a range of colors and the monitor looked pretty good. Good colors, looked sleek with the small bezel, etc. Im no monitor expert but it looked as it should as far as I could tell. What I could not deal with and the reason that this gets two stars instead of me simply not reviewing it is that this monitor had a noticeable group of magenta pixels that appeared whenever the screen went black. Im glad that I ran test videos on it when I took it out of the box or I may not have noticed this until it was too late. These magenta pixels were a cluster about the size of my thumb and they were very bright and were definitely noticeable whenever that area of the screen was black. I wasnt even staring closely to inspect each region of the screen, as I had been doing, before I noticed them. While not as bad a problem as a non-functioning monitor or a monitor with completely dead pixels, this still would have been super distracting and annoying and it speaks to the quality of the monitor regardless of how I received it (used vs new). Im assuming this monitor is less than 30 days old and was returned by someone before me or something so this was not thrilling. Im hesitant to buy another at this point. If I do, I will update this review but for now Im not sure.