NEC LCD Monitors

I recently bought a 17" NEC LCD monitor. It was one of the ones most recently reviewed here, and it is really a superb monitor, except for some dizzying trailing in games. As far as the review, I am a little annoyed at the reviewers 4 out of five gaming rating, because compared to my 19" NEC CRT, this one gives me the beginnings of motion sickness and, in reality, is not a real gaming monitor... BUT the real issue is NEC. THEY SUCK. I have a big fat dead pixel in the middle of my screen glowing bright blue, and it is incredible annoying when the screen is mostly black or dark. LUCKILY, I bought it from gateway and was saved from NEC by gateway's desire to back up their advertised friendly, helpful service. If you buy it from another merchant, BEWARE. Unless the merchant wants to go out of their way to ship you a new one (which I got gateway to do after some yelling and screaming) NEC's official and incredibly infuriating official statement is that unless SIX pixels are dead or dying, they will not allow a return or an exchange or any support. They actually started reading me some class B monitor specification section A or some crap that stated that the defective monitor was aceptible. NEC needs to learn that the quality of their products is judged by the consumer. If I had bought 50 of them and a few had these problems, I wouldnt care, but when I shell out 500 bucks for a monitor, there better not be any problems. They have got to have the worst return policies and standards on the planet, and I thinnk that their sales should suffer from it, but the only point I can make here is, DO NOT shell out your hard earned money for an NEC monitor unless you buy it from a brick and mortar or a big company like dell or gateway. It aint worth the 40 bucks to get it from the small people, folks, you might get screwed.