BTW if any of you want to buy 2nd hand Neumann (and sennheiser, shure, akg) microphone, be very caucious or just don't do it at all. Aliexpress clones are fore sometime now very hard to make apart from the real deal. They even copy the brochures, mounts and cases. What you get is a working mic, often not a terrible one, but not the same thing you wanted to buy.

One thing is when you buy it from aliexpress, it might be even useful for modding etc. Other thing is scammers selling fakes as originals at relatively high prices. And I repeat it is hard to spot fakes from photos unless it's some model you know isn't copied (yet). Vintage models for example. For now anyways.

It is obvious the western companies have no leverage to shut this down for years. Maybe also benefiting from 2ndhand market being less trustworthy rn.