I think hipoints get a bad rap. From other gun guys and shop owners I heard they're hard to find because of their low price, not in spite of it. They do fly off shelves and thats why they're hard to track down.
At $200 or less, I wouldn't expect a Wilson Combat or a gun like that. I used to have one as one of my first guns. It's a heavy, cheap, ugly pistol but I put many 100s if not 1000s of cheap surplus and russian ammo through mine and dont remember ever having any jams, breakage or other problems with it. Like most of the hipoints downsides, it is heavy and hard to cock because of it's blowback action instead of recoil or gas operation. The same thing also accounts for some of its upsides too since it keeps it simple (ie cheap). I never used mine as a "trust my life to it" gun but i don't think i would have much of a problem doing that.