It was $250 so hard to argue, the specs are great for the price, it seems very bright and it's a great refresh rate. The only thing I noticed that's worse about it compared to the VA it's replacing is the viewing angles are a little worse and the color balance was very blue, yet the "low blue" mode is too yellow/orange so it took a lot of tweaking and poor-man color calibration with my phone's camera to get white balanced but it's good now.
I am really enjoying this monitor big upgrade from 1080p 24'' 60HZ. I am not seeing any VA Smearing that people have a problem with VA monitors. Might be because I don't play shooters but so far I have no complaint with it.