I've got the same predicament with a shipping scale. After you pay forward and return shipping, then the price of the repair, you've shot the cost. Even if it's still under warranty, the shipping alone can kill it. Then in the end you're just left with what you should've had in the first place - a product that works like it should have all along. With the scale, I figure I got my money out of it and I've already ordered another one from a better company and it has a 30 year warranty. I even had this same problem again with a digital point and shoot camera and just bought another one and it's been lasting for years now with no problems. The way monitor prices are dropping like stones, I'd say get a new monitor. Check out New Egg. Good luck man!