Couldn't agree more. Used as I am to brand new (and therefore brand-new looking) AEG purchases, when I opened the box on this one I thought "merde, this looks a right state, wish I'd plumped for the Cyma and saved myself a few quid now." After a couple of hours working through snorkel's tips, I'm in love with the bloody thing.
It looks and feels like it ran off a Belarus production line and went straight to a Soviet unit in Afghanistan, got captured by the mujahaddin, somehow ended up involved in the opium trade, finally got seized in a raid by Kuwaiti police, who then offered it as a token