It is "foggy", not scratched. At first I thought "Oh, they've left some residue, a kind of film, as they took a cloth and washed this". But then I tried to rub it off and it wouldn't come off. It isn't a "solid" fog, but kind of like little puffy "clouds" of fog, if that makes any sense. And it isn't super dark, but I can definitely see it, and even more so at night when it is back-lit. It acts as if it *is* on the inside, but I dont' see how that could be.