So far as I know, there are no good high-quality microphones that fit your price range. None that are designed for making podcasts, at any rate, which is what you'll be needing. If memory serves, mine was a good 70-90 bucks at least, though I don't specifically use it for podcasting (though that's what it was designed for).

I'm not saying you won't find one fitting that price range, but like, it'll be a shot in the dark, and then if it sucks, you will have wasted your money, so yeah, I'd not try until you can save up more or something.

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And your reasoning for that is?
Because I heard plenty of third party tests, and for the price I'm confident in saying it's either the best or close to it, it even has XLR along with the USB, so that if he is able to get an inexpensive mixer in the future, he'll already have that ability.
Now I don't have the best headphones in the world it's true, but most listeners wouldn't anyway, and I don't hear anything in those tests that would be distracting, where as I do with many others at the same price range.  Even if their are some slight audio problems (I didn't hear any but I know it depends on the environment, mounting, and speaker distance) he could fix them quite easily in post I'm sure, and that's something he should learn how to do regardless.
The mic consistently pops up on plenty of review sites as one of the top budget studio solutions, including on those that aren't using any affiliate links and are being honest in their criticisms.

You've already made it clear that you think he should wait and save up more, which is definitely one way to go, but at the same time, why not get something cheaper that you can upgrade later if you find you enjoy podcasting, rather than spending lots of money on something you may lose interest with quickly.

Do you have personal experience or at least plenty of anecdotes from others , that would suggest that there is a better alternative for about the same amount of money?
Is their something seriously wrong with it that hasn't been corrected in the newer productions which no one has mentioned for some reason?

I've had two of them, they sound great, but suffer from their own unique problems. The first one would connect via USB, back then, I had no way to test the XLR connectivity and had no need or desire to do so. When it would connect, sometimes it would have a normal output volume, and sometimes, it would be very low, and anything you try to use the microphone to do, the thing would be so faint as to be barely audible. Then, other times, it started out fine, and faded as time went along, and that's the way it was once that started. After that, the mute switch started to fail. First it did its job just fine, attenuating the signal to infinity, then the mute switch would lower the sound, but not in fact mute it, so probably about -40dB or so. It got to the point where it would progressively mute less and less until there was no change in the audio output regardless if the mute was on or off.

The second one I still do have, and it isn't suffering either the fading output or the mute switch problem, but it has developed a hum which comes and goes. When its gone, I haven't found a way to make it come back, and when it's there, I haven't found a way to make it go permanently. The one thing that I can do to get it to stop the humming is to point it straight up and down so it's perpendicular to the ground, and then the humming is gone. I did have an opportunity to test this over XLR, and the problem still persists there.

It's a little difficult for me to have trust in them now, because while I do like their sound, they just end up having weird problems. The one I have now is useless to me at this point.

It does not have a -10dB feature, I also bought my second one sometime early last year, and did notice a few minor changes, but nothing significant. I doubt new ones are better. I also do not buy, and do not recommend buying refurbished anything.

@ defender
can you please give me the demo for the mike?
@ ironcross32
do you know of any mikes wich is $40 and loer?
i'm asking for this because I doen't have access to mony.
so, ile be saveing for my birthday.
so yeah.