I have had the opportunity to handle a Vector and found the quality to be superb. I had read in the forums over the last year or so about the superiority of the Microtech line of automatics and was a little bit skeptical. But when I got my hands on the Vector, I was stunned at how good it was put together. Microtech automatics are one of the few things that I have encountered in my life that have actually exceeded my expectations. Oh yes, the knife I handled was for sale for somewhere around $325.00 U.S. That was too much to slip by my one and only and I couldn't come up with a convincing argument right then as to why I desparately needed a plus $300.00 knife, not to mention one that I couldn't carry legally.