I have to admit, my pink-edged monitor is bumming me out.  I'm a textbook example of "buyer beware," or at least "buyer, pay more attention when you have money burning a hole in your pocket."

Based on the price, I'm pretty sure the seller knew it, too.  Oh, how I long for a time when libel laws were lax, and men regularly challenged each other to duels.  I'm not really angry, but sometimes I'd like to take my gut feelings about people and emblazon them in 90-point blinking font on my web page, or hire a skywriter.  But alas, we must be civil.

I'll probably end up selling the thing on Craigslist, at an even deeper discount, and with pictures demonstrating the exact problem.  The only religious vestige of my youth is my Catholic guilt, so I can't bring myself to be the guy who smugly lures nerds with shiny Apples, accepts their stacks of cash, then screams, "no givesies backsies!"

The funny thing is, almost every monitor with IPS technology has a handful complaints on the web about uneven colors.  Obviously, complainers drown out satisfied customers, and my friends rave about IPS, but there definitely seems to be a quality control issue--perhaps at LG Philips, who manufactures every panel I've considered (including the Apple).

But, there's a silly advantage to buying new, called a warranty.  Sure, I can't send it back to have them coat the ugly plastic bezel in pretty anodized aluminum, but I can send it back if it gives me the throbbing eye ache I'm nursing right now.