Bent stylus or normal? ~5-10 degrees off horizontal when looking directly from the front

Just read Yogiboys suggestion on a different thread suggesting swapping the left/right channel tubes. Gave that a shot, no change unfortunately. 

should I swap the left and right channel on the actual cartridge to see if that does anything, or are the visual signs of the stylus I described enough to say that is the culprit?

Cantilever is the part I was trying describe (the metal thing extending out from the cartridge that holds the stylus, clearly I'm still learning haha).

Anyways, it looks like the 'cantilever', which rests in a V shape grove exiting the cartridge housing, isn't perfectly in the V. It's out of the groove a fraction of a mm up towards the right, and slightly twisted so the stylus points more left rather than perfectly down/vertical.

The twist is minor yet noticable, the cantilever being out of the V groove is even less so, with a magnifying glass I could barely see it...

is is this normal, or is it bent? If it is bent, can I simply try to carefully twist the cantilever to make the stylus vertical?

Man, really? That sucks

Just found another forum where someone posted a fantastic photo of their Shure M97xE from the front. It looks IDENTICAL to mine. Scroll down the page about 75% of the way. He overlayed blue lines on the image and calculated the degrees it was off to be about 3.6.

check it out:
http://www.vinylengine.com/turntable_forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=70115

Thanks for the input, I actually just submitted a return request on Amazon a minute ago. Unfortunately I don't have a test record, I did at least check the test tones running through my computer (to emotiva dac-->Cary preamp) and those sounded the same (not that useful really) and the decibels were within 1 of each other measuring with an app on my phone. 

Ill try reversing the left right channels (and their respective grounds) on the back of the cartridge and see what happens