Nothing unreasonable with what you're saying in my opinion, the display market as a whole have been notoriously awful with regards to QC.
To confirm your suspicions, I'd say that yes, you're very unlikely to get a bad one. Mine has virtually no backlight bleed, glow is noticeable on a completely black screen but is completely unnoticeable during daylight. Aside from the sleep issues and flickering that I've been reading about (but I've not personally experienced at all), the actual panel itself should be a good'un.
I have to agree with this there is a small amount of BLB in the corners, glow is noticeable but not really a problem on fully lit screen. No dead pixels (I've never had a dead pixel from any monitor honestly) and no sleep or flickering issues. The only thing I would mention is the noticeable buzz or hum mentioned in the TFT central review its only at low brightness levels (< 40) and since I don't use it that low its not an issue, if if it was an issue at higher levels I would RMA it (not sure why anyone would want it set that low, but still)
As far as I understand it all IPS monitors of this size use the same panel(?) so its not like there is much choice currently, correct me if I'm wrong but the only real difference is the electronics behind (Freesync/Gsync or non-Freesync/Gync) so its all much of a muchness at this size screen, I believe. If you're looking for a 100% perfect monitor I doubt you'll ever find one. I guess with most people it down to whats acceptable and whats not. I don't spend much time in darkened rooms looking at black screens so blb is not really an issue for me, however buzzing or dead pixels would be unacceptable.
Ordered on the 1st arrived yesterday, Setup on my ikea FREDDE desk only one minor problem, display port cable that came with monitor is 4" too short [insert sounds of gnashing teeth and screams of anguish]
So only connected with a longer HDMI cable I had had hanging around, untill new longer cable arrives.
Yeah I have to admit DP cable is short there isn't much slack between tower and monitor on mine, you'd think with a monitor this expensive they'd spend a quid or two extra on a longer cable in the box.
edit: really hard to get a decent picture with flash due to nature of curved screen:
http://imgur.com/LKL2s90
http://imgur.com/angw0dU
http://imgur.com/qaCGXTS
http://imgur.com/tEbIjOI
