So Best Buy during their "Boxing Week" sale (for you yanks, think Black Friday) had a Rock Band microphone stand w/ USB extension cord on for $9.99. Now, the Best Buy is only a 10min drive from me so I really don't mind going to pickup the item instead of having it shipped from somewhere in Ontario, waste of resources and time if you ask me.
The thing is, Best Buy doesn't offer "in store pickup" during "Boxing Week" which by the way is officially just Boxing Day but sometime in the last 6 years or so the big box stores extended it to an entire week. They were offering $1.99 shipping so I got it shipped, I wasn't in a rush for it anyway, I have to learn to guitar past medium before I can learn to sing and guitar at the same time anyway.
This is what arrived, the blue thing in the bottom is the microphone stand. The rest was filled with about 20 ft of packing paper (as seen to the left of the box).
It reminds me of when you buy an SD flash card that is the size of a postage stamp but it is bundled in a plastic container the size of a small laptop!