I have a shooting buddy who has this lens, and I've had the opportunity to borrow it a few times. It's a turd.
I'm not a lens guru, so I don't know when these things were made, but it seemed like an older lens. It feels like a cheap piece of junk, and I wasn't very happy with the results it gave me. If you can get one on the cheap, it may be worth it, but honestly...you couldn't give me one. My Tamron 28-75mm just blows this thing away, and even the kit lens that came w/ my D90 (18-105mm) was higher build quality and better optics.