Claiming they did a "Bait and switch" is also silly because as the manufacturer they can revise the product as much as they want. Less than 2% of the consumer market would even care and the only ones who notice this stuff are people like us. If Samsung decided to cut production costs by using a comparable panel to the one they originally placed in the monitor then that is their right as the producer of the product. Get over it.
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Excuse me all over the place....do you have shares?
Any reasonable person would expect that the product that is sent to website reviews{and receives worldwide praise as the best 22}, should be the product they can buy.
If they switch to an inferior panel, then it's known as "bait and switch"......so let's see how the A panel fares against the other 22's.
I'd also add that even if the A panel was of similar quality, the public perception may still be negative, ie, they might "assume" a lesser grade panel was used......end of the day, no sale.
IMO, the manufacturer should decide on the panel supplier and subsequently supply that panel to review and to customers.
Samsung would have known that it's new high spec 22 would be interesting/popular, so why use their own souped up panel if they can't meet the expected demand?