There are enough reviews of guns on the internet now, probably not questions of whether they are reliable? Or maybe there is regarding who makes the review? I dunno....I've kinda just discovered all of it.
Way different than it used to be. I bought my first 10/22 back in the early seventies. I had heard they were good, but that was based on heresay. I bought it for my dad, he asked me to buy him a good 22, and I wanted to do so. Pa was good with it, and that was the first of four or five that I've bought.
If people say it's good, it probably is. $129 isn't much cost for a singleshot, much less a repeater. I've bought several used guns as barter items,most have turned into much better. But they were private deals.
Hard to pass up good deals, though! If it's justa bit of spending money, burning a hole...I'd gamble on the investment. $129 will not buy much of anything now.
I've passed on some deals involving cheap guns, that I wish I hadn't.