acer xb270hu bad pixel grey

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There has been reports of that in Amazon reviews. My sample is fine, but yea, send it back and get another.

I was worried I would get one like yours. From what I can gather there are at least two sets of these monitors around. The apparently older set with a lot of them with stuff in the panel (like yours) and a newer set with better QA maybe? The old set was so bad that Amazon stopped selling them for quite a while. I had to order mine from B&H Photo - Video - Audio (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1132443-REG/acer_um_hb0aa_001_xb270hu_widescreen_lcd_monitor.html) as it was on sale at the time as well. I don't think that will help you but just be aware there seems to be multiple SKUs of these out there.
There has been reports of that in Amazon reviews. My sample is fine, but yea, send it back and get another.

I was worried I would get one like yours. From what I can gather there are at least two sets of these monitors around. The apparently older set with a lot of them with stuff in the panel (like yours) and a newer set with better QA maybe? The old set was so bad that Amazon stopped selling them for quite a while. I had to order mine from B&H Photo - Video - Audio (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1132443-REG/acer_um_hb0aa_001_xb270hu_widescreen_lcd_monitor.html) as it was on sale at the time as well. I don't think that will help you but just be aware there seems to be multiple SKUs of these out there.
 
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