Sour grapes. Buy our new computers even if you cannot afford them. Yes any of those issue is possible. Many people buy used cars under cloud of the same risk profile. However if you buy anything used with eyes wide open you may have a great deal. For a few years in the middle 2000's I made a living by "upgrading" late 1990 computers to early 2000s used computers in small business that could not afford to pay new market prices. I made money and my clients are still around because they were frugal.