Yeah, just ask. If they say no, ask if you can talk to the manager.... Tell them that you've had several refurbs (I had,) and you heard that a lot of the newly-manufactured ones have the good screens. I even went so far as to explain that ALL Verizon phones have the good screen. After a quick showing of my phone going negative by tilting the screen less than 50 degrees, he said that's all he needed to see. The manager was shocked to see how bad it was.
So now, I have THREE retail boxes, with THREE of everything, except someone stole my original wall charger. Now I only have two
Pretty slick. I even got the 512MB card this time, even though I pulled my 4GB. So I have 2 x 512, and my 4GB. He said he absolutely didn't need, or want it.
I've been home about 30 minutes, and I'm nearly done flashing to the leaked ROM, and then I can run PPST.exe to upgrade my PRI. I just need to pick the lastest good ROM. Dharvey's works great, and is mostly stock, but I'm unable to run Jivetalk, because of some sort of incompatibility... Guess we'll see...