1) If there were pictures and you didn't ask about scratching, it's your loss. Think about it: if someone advertises something as "clean" or "nice" it's their opinion, not an exact science.

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And you can be lucky the opposite direction too - I bought a wallstreet 300 which, from the pics, looked really beat-up, and all I wanted from it was the logic board and CPU. Turns out the scratches in it aren't really visible irl, and the thing is as solid as a wallstreet gets. Unless you see something for yourself, irl, there's not much way to guarantee what it's like - I risk that on every eBay buy, but deal with it all the same.

Dana