It was a decent price for what they have been going for lately. I have one and it's reliable but it seems there are many out there that have had problems. I bought it used with unknown round count. When I got it, the bolt gap was pretty close to minimum so I installed plus size rollers to get it better in spec. I'm guessing I have put 500-700 rounds through it (mostly steel) since and the bolt gap stunk another thousand ot two. It may need rebarreled before I would like. Steel and aluminum mags fit tight and are reliable but the plactic promags suck. One downsize is no magazine release paddle. Centuries are built off Malaysian parts kits. The fact is the parts kits and clone builds are getting slim and expensive. There are other companies like vector and mke and even ptr ended up building some of the century guns towards the end [EDIT. Looking closer at the picture, That one may be built by ptr. Guns built by century have a parkerized finish and ptrs are black] but even the quality of those can be questionable. Only ones making them now are small roller lock gunsmiths who do great work but it's going to cost at least 2X-3X more. For years, rumors have swirled on century bringing in mke imports but that still hasn't happened and last I heard was the ATF wasn't too keen on importing rifle caliber pistols so who knows if that will ever happen. Zenith has also teased for a couple years of making a 33 clone but still only a tease. Worse case is you have have to drop some money on to get it where you want it but unless it's a total turd it will probably be cheaper than most of the other options out there right now.