Shocking I agree, but the only way to avoid it in reality is to get on a plane, get there, find out who’s selling it, get your cheque book out, pay for it, organise transport home, pay for that, go home, wait for six weeks for it to arrive at Felixstowe [ or wherever ] organise transport from the docks, find somewhere to put it.
Then you’ve saved it, How is your bank account to do this lot?

Which is what it really boils down to….. Money.

Sometimes even aircraft are best put out of their misery.