That is a very good price for that reel! I own 6 BG10000CT (same reel just a little wider) that I use for all of my surf casting and they cast like a dream and are tough, tough reels. When I originally bought mine i used the mon the boat for a year or so before falling in love with other shiny things. They have caught many many many fish from everything from the typical ling, king, dorado, to inshore sharks, bull reds and black drum. For the money you aren't going to find a better reel. One more thing is I have 4 of the BG7000HSN's and 4 BG7000 and out of all these Garias the only failure I've ever had was the antireverse pawl broke on one of the bg7000hsn after landing a 60# ling. Abu did a great job with the BG series