Contour USB

Has anybody tried the Contour USB? It looks interesting and I am interested in trying it, but Bayer is not giving it away and it is $70. I tried a Contour once and was disappointed in its performance. (It gave me a FBG of 60 while two other meters of mine which have been tested against labs gave me a reading of 95.) Maybe I just had a bad one, but it makes me leery of spending money on a Contour just to have the convenience of being able to upload it onto my computer.