The $125 liquid said sounds right to me, too. A good thing to consider is that Mossberg sells a great barrel for the 500 (and offers them for Rem 870 also).

The package was $169. A fully rifled & ported barrel with cantilever scope mount and a 3-9 X 40 scope. It is factory laser bore sighted. I bought one and it was pretty much dead nuts accurate right out of the package. My buddy bought one for his 870 and it too was right on out of the package.

I didn't like the scope so it was replaced with a red dot scope.I sold the original one to a guy at the range who was trying to sight in his slug gun and his scope was broke. Got $40 for it.