Hello James,
I see what you mean now. This behavior however is expected. It is essentially the same as if you define some page size (with serverPaging: true) and the server returns more items (for the current page) than the page size. The Grid will show then and the pager will be out of sync.
Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
Telerik
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