trying hard not to bite. just need 1 tv left to buy if its 150+tax at walmart freeship i guess i will snag one to give away. *unless i see another tcl 43" for 229 (looks pretty good)
Thanks for the update
You might want to think again if you are willing to chance this. Here's my story at the moment:
I ordered one a couple days ago or so from Walmart. I hadn't opened the boxed one I received from Newegg on Nov. 11 because I didn't have the system yet to drive it. Indicated on the Walmart one I just ordered is ETA of Monday 12/17. I waived on delivery in favor of pickup because the one I got from them around 2 weeks ago had a dented box and I wouldn't open it, just brought it back. I'd used Chase Pay to pay for it online and after standing in line 1/2 hour on a Saturday they refused to refund me but gave me full value on a gift card. I didn't argue, what good would that do me?
But I decided next time I could pick up a monitor in a B&M store I would do that in favor of delivery. Who knows what happens to your precious monitor when handled by people who may not care? It's worth it to me to spend an hour or two and drive 10-30 miles to lessen the chance that my merchandise has suffered rough treatment.
The Avera 40EQX20 40" 4K display (same display) I received from Newegg, delivered to my porch, looked just fine, was obviously NITB but after setting it up a couple days ago and getting a computer signal into it I was disappointed to find it has a major defect. I could watch movies on it or play games and probably never notice but for computing it's a serious deal breaker. It looks as if someone had dragged a finger nail over it making a streak about 2.25" long, not so much as 1/2 way from the center toward one corner. When looking at text documents, etc., with a white background that streak is super obvious. Newegg will RMA it and pick up shipping charges and either refund me or provide a replacement, my call. I haven't made up my mind. Meantime, I'm waiting for Walmart and hope that I get an OK display from them.
Also, another perplexing and vexing issue materialized a day or so after noticing that streak. Poking around the menus trying to find out how to turn off the to-me annoying voice announcements that happen much of the time when in the menus or even turning the thing on or off, I did something (don't know what) that has caused the display to get into a state that I have not been able to change: it is on a certain TV station, I hear the sound but there's no TV picture, just changing screens every ~5 seconds or so (I'm guessing), changing from bright red to yellow to white, etc. etc. etc. Maybe it's a display test evaluation utility, I've seen ones that do that sort of thing. You can spot dead pixels with those.
Nothing I do changes this on behavior, including the sound. The menus, I can't access. I can't change inputs, I can't turn it off! Hitting mute does not stop the sound, the system is totally unresponsive to all button pushes on the remote now. The only way to stop it is pull the plug and when I plug it back in (even hours later) it's as if I'd never pulled the plug... it goes on and on. I called Avera twice today and left messages but they have not returned my call. I suppose I'll send them an email:
service@averadigital.com
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