It was a deal, a used 27 inch Sceptre monitor for only $88. It replaced my 19 inch Dell which was working fine but I'm finding it hard to read the teeny tiny lettering thrown up by my ancient version of Word and Excel. I ordered the monitor thru Amazon. They told me if I signed up for Amazon Prime, I would get a $100 gift card that could be applied to the monitor immediately. That dropped $188 down to $88. What else Amazon Prime might do for me or cost me is unclear.
The monitor showed up a few days later. I plugged it in and it works fine. No dead pixels. It's bright, so bright I thought I might turn brightness down a notch. That does not work. The monitor has 5 black on black buttons hidden on the back of the screen to control those things we used to have knobs on side of our TV sets to adjust. Brightness is set to 80 and the setting is grayed out, meaning you can look but not touch. PITA And the stand is flimsy. The entire screen rocks gently back a forth every time you touch it.
Anyhow the bigger screen is nice. My eyes are not what they used to be. I can read everything now without squinting. Nice.
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