out of range

Slight writer's block today, not really sure where to start and while staring at the screen was reminded that this is in fact the third monitor we have had for this computer. In 6 months.
The first one developed this strange thing of being 'out of range'. huh? It was right there, 4 inches from the computer. We brought it back and got the second one.
The second one, slowly and gradually took longer and longer to flicker into life. Which gave lots of time to read the little stickers on it - f engine it says and Ultra Fast Response Time.
The final straw with 2 was the day it took 19 long minutes to come on. Yes I timed it, as I've said too much free time. We brought it back and got good old number 3 here.
But not without a bit of a discussion in the shop. The 19 year old Customer Sales Assistant told us it would have to be sent off for repair, 2 to 6 weeks.
In the meantime we could buy another monitor and when 2 came back we could return the 'spare' for a refund. Well the moral of the story is 19 year old Customer Sales Assistants can be intimidated into giving you the last display monitor, finally a benefit of getting old(er).
3 is looking good so far.