Originally Posted by right-track

Couldn't. It'd been used since Christmas day and it wouldn't have took a genius to work that out. So I acted a bit thick and told them it had a slight blurry section at the bottom of the screen, which I put down to the screen warming up, or sumfink.
And that it just got worse everytime we open and closed the laptop.
The guy who fancied himself as a bit of a smartarse informed me that the "blurry section" can only have been a hairline crack and that opening and closing the laptop "compounded the defect".

Really? I said.
Oh yes, most probably. He replied.

And he went and got me a new one.