Yeah, I believe so. I just picked up the VW226H (the 21.5" model) myself. Mostly to use as my primary PC monitor (using my big HDTV right now, but it’s way too uncomfortable for some games), but it’ll definitely work for bringing to tournaments.
Geez, and I just paid $170 ($150 after MIR) for my 21.5" model. Oh well, I actually don’t think I wanted anything bigger considering space and such, but still.
you will see a link to ebay at the top that shows a dollar sign on a coin and notice it says 8% cashback, click on that.
in the ebay page search for the the asus monitor.
in the list you will see one for $181.99 with free shipping, and click that one and you will see it’s zipzoomfly at their ebay account.
click on buy it now, and on the next screen it will show a little price tag type thing with the amount of cashback you will get (just under $15).
proceed to purchase.
you can do all this now w/out actually purchasing it to see the process and see what i’m talking about. also, you have to be signed up for the cashback process, which it will give you steps to as well, and signed up to paypal, because thats how you get teh cash back.
sometimes it’s instant cashback, sometimes you have to wait 60 days for it, there really is no way to guarantee one way or the other.
as of now it’s only 8% cashback, but like I said, starting august 10th, they are doubling the cashback so it should be 16% next week.
EDIT:
oh and the $20 MIR is also listed on the ebay auction as well.
has anybody actually tested this monitor and have hard numbers? I wouldn’t trust this monitor to be lagless because if there’s anything I’ve learned from looking at monitor reviews is lag isn’t on the top of manufacturers’ priorities and it’s a crap shoot. the most infamous example of this was some samsung 22" monitor where it was found to be lagless and many pc gamers that wanted LCDs thought it was the answer to their prayers but what people found out later was that samsung had two different companies providing the displays for that model and one was lagless and one lagged horribly and there was no way to know prior to purchasing which monitor you got.
the bing cashback today wasnt 16%, it was only 10%… and so it was 188.99 + 15.01 CA tax (fucking CA), came out to $197.
With $20 rebate, and $18.20 cashback, comes out to about $159 for the monitor total. Not to terrible. Thanks again. For those of you not in CA, this would be an even sweeter deal as it normally goes for about $190.
yeah, i’m having trouble even getting the cashback atm. I search ‘asus monitor ebay’, the little cashback sign is up there, I click on it and get sent to an ebay search listing without the little cahsback symbols.