Display scuffed by keyboard

Hi,
I've literally just had my Macbook Air for a week and I already have a screen scuff! I'm not sure if I just got really unlucky or if this is normal for the new Macbook Airs. It seems that the metal "dip" between the spacebar and the trackpad is scuffing up my screen. The damage isn't terribly noticeable but its definitely there. Has anyone else had this problem? Were you able to polish out the damage? I tried my Radtech cloth from my Macbook Pro to no avail. Do you think Apple would be willing to replace my LCD?

I think I'd find that unacceptable. When I got my iphone, it had a profusion of pixels stuck on green. My local genius was unobliging when I asked her to look at it in a darker part of the store, and could only spot 2 big clusters that she said were within spec.
But when I called the apple support number, they were far more responsive, they said they would exchange it immediately for one with zero dead pixels, and within a couple of days I had my new flawless iphone (it even came in a slimmer main unit-only version of the regular iphone box). They had definitely salvaged their relationship with me, I had been hopping mad about the snarky genius and the glaring quality issue.
So my point is, give them a call, maybe they'll treat you as well as they treated me... seems bothersome to say the least to be running around with a foam insert.

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