Back in the late 80s, I saw an ad in the Recycler for a garage sale. I was looking for some mic stands, and they were in the ad.
My drummer friend and I drove over, and an older lady showed us into her garage. It seems that her late husband was a TV/film sound man, and had some gear left behind in the garage.
As we were rummaging around, I came upon a box with a bunch of microphones in it. There were two Sennheiser boxes in there, and when I opened them up, I about had a heart attack! They were a matched pair of Sennheiser K2-U shotgun condenser microphones.
I looked at my friend with wide eyes, and asked the lady how much she wanted for them. She said "$5 each."
Of course, we bought them as well as some other mics and a ton of adapters, plus a bunch of mic stands.
My Sennheiser K2-U is still my "go to" mic for vocals, acoustic guitar etc. A fantastic mic! Other than a Neumann U-87, it's the best mic I've ever heard.
Ern
Yes, it sure was. Some people have said to me "You took advantage of an old woman, you scumbag!" Well, it was a garage sale! Aren't you supposed to find stuff like that occasionally!? --- My only regret is letting my drummer friend have the second mic of the matched pair. But there were other vintage mics that I kept, made by Philips, Norelco etc. Classic dynamic mics that you always see on live 60s videos. They had weird European-style cables though. --- BTW, I thought that Norelco only made shavers! 
