I have bought quite a few semiautos in the past several years, played with them a while, and then traded them away. This has included four nines: Taurus PT92 (well made & perfectably reliable gun, but too large for even my large hand), Ruger P89 (another well made & perfectably reliable gun, but while smaller still too large and also carried the additional laibility of a heavier DA trigger), Star BM (loved it's feel in my hand, but neither of the two mags would feed reliably), and Taurus PT-911 (great size and feel, but I couldn't get the DAO trigger as smooth as I wanted even after a trigger job).
I recently said to heck with it and bought a second Bersa Thunder 380 (matte black with nickle controls) that matches my first first Bersa, which is my all-time favorite auto. This is the first time in my life (and I'm now 62) that I have ever owned two guns of the same kind. I guess the only down side is that now I will have to buy a left-hand holster so that I can carry both at the same time. I wonder how they can make a $200-$250 auto that feels and functions so much better than pistols costing several times more.