This whole business of "used" gear from places like MF has often seemed fishy to me. Check it out: A lot of this "
Category 1 Used" stuff not only is only marginally less than the new gear, but is "mint" with only "packing damage" and is often on stuff they absolutely, categorically won't accept as returns, like microphones and drumheads, etc. Doesn't this appear to be in some cases...