I picked up an old Encore P in a charity shop last year. Gave it a good clean and polish, did a fair bit of fret work (levelled, reshaped, polished) and rounded over the fretboard edges, put a Tonestyler pickup in and it is honestly one of my favourite playing basses, it just feels so nice to play and sounds great.
£50 for the bass and £25 for the pickup.
The mid nineties ones just have Encore on the headstock, these and older I feel are the better ones, the newer ones have Encore Blaster on the headstock.
As with most basses there are good and bad from any era, a place we use for rehearsals has one like mine but it's terrible, it could probably be made to feel nicer but visually it doesn't do it for me. I lucked out and got some really nicely grained wood on the body and neck.