In practice this isn’t a problem. Take a non-software example:
Driving instructors typically have their cars on a 3 year hire purchase then return instead of buying. Why? Way back when, my driving instructor actually bought one of the cars. 3 months later, the engine failed and it was out of warranty.
Because of that, he realised that paying a monthly fee meant he had no surprise failures, he returned the car just as the clutch was burning out (learner drivers don’t have great driving technique, weirdly enough), and had a fresh car every 3 years for new learners.
I don’t know the details but I’m assuming he’s using commercial lease hiring, or the U.K. rules are different. The mileage and wear and tear alone would mean he’d be unable to hide it.
Yeah I've never heard anyone think a driving instructor car was a great buy, unless you like replacing basically every driving component which can fail. These cars have it rough. Especially manual. I'm surprised a driving instructor (of all people) would think of doing that without also wanting to do a full engine and transmission rebuild.
It’s not a rental, it’s hire purchase with a warranty, so the most common things that are going to fail are covered. Other things are just not that likely to fail in the first 3 years.
There used to be a pretty big business in US of reselling expensive software licenses (think AutoCad etc). I remember Autodesk trying to stop it and not being able to which brings us to the current day.
Of course now that everything is under pay as you go SaaS model, that's out of window.
Driving instructors typically have their cars on a 3 year hire purchase then return instead of buying. Why? Way back when, my driving instructor actually bought one of the cars. 3 months later, the engine failed and it was out of warranty.
Because of that, he realised that paying a monthly fee meant he had no surprise failures, he returned the car just as the clutch was burning out (learner drivers don’t have great driving technique, weirdly enough), and had a fresh car every 3 years for new learners.