Not acceptable. Was this flaw there on ebay listing?

The damage is in the anti-glare coating.

Cheers,

Hi, yeah it was in the listing, but I got it for £35 so though it was worth taking a punt. Hopefully I can fix it, or clean it, or somehow reduce the appearance of it!

I got a NEC monitor with a Mitsubishi tube with exactly same kind of problem and I took the time and used bunch of elbow grease to just wash off the coating. You can also just peel off the entire plastic layer (which has the antiglare and antistatic layer deposited on top) too if there are actual scratches in it so it is definitely workable. The tube is going to be pretty good when you get the front sorted out.

When the coat is removed the screen is super shiny 🙁

Since it is a flat one, you can apply car window tint film and it will work pretty good. A friend did that to his monitors that had this sort of problem and they're usable in ambient light again 🤣

Thanks for all the tips guys. Lets hope it comes off easily. It's weird as when I asked the seller if it was on the inside or outside he said inside. But I'm guessing they didn't fully understand the question... maybe. I'll definitely look into the car window tint film though Tiido. Do you think it should actually have a slight tint to it then? I don't want to make the screen darker if I can help it.

When you remove the original layer, the tube sort of becomes a pale mirror with poor contrast, not unlike an old black and white TV. The antiglare layer actually is quite dark and you want to match the darkness with a new tint layer as contrast you get in ambient light conditions largely depends on it. Without the layer in a dark room the monitor will be absolutely awesome though.