I'm not sure if I paid for a mandrel bent system or not. The other mandrel place that I found, that I didn't use, quoted me about the same. But, according to the guy I used, supposedly we never spoke about a mandrel system anyway, so I would think that I paid for what I got. Including everything, including the cats, x-pipe and mufflers it came to $1300. So I hope that was fair.
As for the clamps, yea, I would have preferred the band clamps also, but that was another thing I didn't think of at the time. Maybe eventually I'll replace them with band style. For now I'll just turn them all 90 degrees so it looks a little better and doesn't snag any roadkill.
Thanks guys for the positive comments on the system. This was the first custom system I've had done and didn't have anything previous to compare it too. I've only done aftermarket cat back systems before this.