Is this too good to be true? SM57 fakes??

[TTOS]

3x sm57 for £70 (about $135)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=330199564418&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=014

I'm getting 2x SM57 for snare micing and I saw this deal, there seems to be a whole load of SM57s on Ebay really cheap at the moment, what do you reckon? Could they be fakes?

 

[kev]

Probably fake tbh. I'd get the seller to 1, take a picture of the logo on them- the fakes often have a raised 'R'. Secondly, a pic of the mic unscrewed will allow you to tell. I picked up a fake for £15, its got a much higher output than the real ones, surprisingly wasnt the worsed sound in the world either.

 

[006]

Anybody selling 3 SM57's for $135 is out of their mind. They go for $99 each brand new in the US. They'd be ripping themselves off tremendously. That's not even a whole THIRD of what they COULD get for them.

~e.a