Generally you get what you pay for, I'd go for a nice used T/C Encore. Probably better quality and a larger variety of barrels, plus you can have the pistol or switch it over to a rifle cheap enough.
The extra money spent on a T/C would be worth the wait time in my oppinion. Plus if you didn't like it you would recoup most of your money back if you decided to send it down the road.
I have been buying up used T/C Contenders, keeping the barrelsand flipping the actions, I have two extra actions I wil be getting rid of here shortly. I just sold a couple of extra barrels that I had double in.
Good luck on what ever you buy.
I really like the 7mmTCU, the 223 and the 35 Remington barrels in the pistol form on my Contenders.