If the scoter has done several thousand miles it should be ok, more than 20,000 miles and you are taking a gamble, there could be any number of deep setaed long term and expensive problems that need to be fixed.

You may get a used scooter at a bargain price, but you may have to spend hundreds on repairs.

I once had a used scooter that needed a new throttle cable as the throttle was on full all the time. The entire repair bill came to over £100, just for a cable and the labour / import costs as the part needed to be sent from another country.

If I had decided to buy a brand new scooter instead then I may not have had that problem, in fact I may have avoided any repair bills all together before deciding to sell the scooter and upgrade to a full motorcycle.

Used scooters  almost always come with some sort of minor problem, but they also come with a low price tag. But thanks to internet retailers cutting out all of the middle-men, it often works out cheaper in the long run to buy a brand new scooter instead of a used one.

In the UK, scooters are not the most common form of transport, in fact it is fair to say that cars are the most popular mode of transportation, and because of this there are not many used scooters available to buy online.

If you wanted to buy a car, then obviously you would get a used car for far less than a new one, but as new and used scooters cost about the same amount of money, it makes sense to buy a new scooter instead of a used one.