I have a B&D - probably the same one as ckcowl. I have had it for a few years now and it's a work horse. Several of my friends liked mine so much they went and bought one for themselves - now we all have the same iron!
It's an awesome iron - and I paid about $12 for it.
side note -
For what it's worth my parents volunteer twice a year at a massive rummage sale for the Visiting Nurses and they both are in the electronics department. My mother says that the irons that come in that don't work are usually the high end ones. It's sad but tons of people donate broken things and the Visiting Nurses have to pay for dumpsters to dispose of things that they can't sell - and the people get really irate when they tell them that they won't take certain things.... lots of stuff make it through that they find out later is broken or too damaged to sell. It is horrifying the amount of money they spend on dumpsters.... and yes, a lot of the stuff that is broken is donated to places that will fix them - like schools for vocational programs and whatnot...