> I've heard more than one co-worker or family member refer to buying pre-owned goods as "buying someone else's problem." Well, there are lots of people with m

> I've heard more than one co-worker or family member refer to buying pre-owned goods as "buying someone else's problem." Well, there are lots of people with more money than intelligence. Knowing how to evaluate purchases for quality is a basic life skill, if you always buy whatever's available brand new you'll get taken. People like that tend to be fairly helpless as soon as they're outside of where they feel comfortable.