Been saying it for past year unfortunately, LG and quality control is shockingly bad. My CX went bust after 3 months normal usage, I don't even game. You should see over on AVF community the CX thread was plagued with similar horror stories, many got bad motherboards or poor uniformity and banding on their panels back in the day.
Its one of the reasons I wished to go Sony since I believe there quality control process still exist and they also hand pick the best looking panels to put under its Masterclass series, no doubt they check for uniformity, banding and dead pixels etc. Only issue is Sony puts far too much price increase on top for having that but guess its worth it sometimes. At 1.2K though the 42C2 was a bargain although it should have been 1k.
Might be worth trying to buy it from another supplier, I think RS and costca are usually very good about swap outs due to banding and uniformity, but Mr Lewis are apparently pretty bad and frown upon and block it, not sure about Mr Curries.
