Did the monitors look used, or nearly brand new? Also, what cables came in the box? How are the black levels, contrast ratio, viewing angles and refresh/response time (blurring)?
So I just bought them new off Amazon at $600, still a great price for such a good quality 32" 1440p monitor.
The black levels and contrast are amazing. In Dragon Age I can see so much more detail than my 23" old Dell TN monitor (that has an odd resolution of 2048x1152). I'm actually going down in ppi a bit from about 102 to 92, but very close, just a *lot* more screen. I see a lot more detail in the darker areas of the game, such as caves, inside castles, shadowed areas etc... and at the size it looks amazing. Also since the ppi is similar in the game I just see a *lot* more of the world, I notice taller buildings and grander areas in Dragon age a *lot* more now, such as entering Skyhold is more of a grand experience. I noticed the same while playing Old Republic (the MMO), I notice the tall and grand areas a lot more since I don't have to deliberately look up to see more. Really enhances the games far more than I expected.
Viewing angles are superb, which was very important for me since I'm sitting pretty close at about 1 1/2 feet away (EDIT: from 1 foot to 1 1/2 feet actually). I can imagine a monitor this size would cause a lot of problems if viewing angles and uniformity were bad.
I haven't noticed any blurring/ghosting at all actually. Despite coming from a fast TN panel (though still 60hz). I did fire up a session of TF2 and definitely notice tearing more. I'm sure this is purely due to the larger monitor now and possibly the higher demand (so lower FPS but don't think I'm running into FPS issues in tf2) so I just see it more now. I think with my smaller monitor it was just harder to notice tearing.
I realized getting this I was choosing image quality over tearing (especially if I went with a freesync monitor and waited to ugprade my video card) and I'm very glad I did it. TF2 I think is a worse case scenario since I was rocket jumping with the beggars which can mean chains of jumping, speed pogoing, and rapid spinning and view movement, far more than pretty much any other FPS. Despite taking time to adjust and the increased obviousness of tearing after adjusting my mouse sensitivity to match the new resolution better I was securing #1 place. I definitely move my eyes and head a lot more but I can see a lot more too. I'll have to experiment with V-SYNC some more too to see which I prefer, the tearing or stuttering, but in the end it doesn't matter... I noticed no tearing in Dragon Age, even when moving my camera rapidly, only in first person in TF2 moving quite rapidly.
Maybe in 2 years or so I'll upgrade to a 4k monitor + Freesync + 144hz+ when they have VA or IPS panels at this size and with those features and gaming hardware can keep up. Until then I am more than satisfied...
Really happy my 7970 (reference too since I had planned, though never got around, to setting up watercooling in my favorite piece of my rig, my caselabs ST10-X tank of a case) is keeping up well. Pretty confident I can drop $250-$300 and snag a 290x for my wife and double up the 7970s and be perfectly fine for a while and jump up in Dragon Age from 30-35 to the 50s+ in FPS.