Comment by rsync

Yes. There are vendor-specific utilities that have escaped into the wild that allow bad actors to reset various SMART counters, etc.

A lot of abuse came to light during the launch and initial mining of the (ridiculous) Chiacoin[1] during which Chia miners would burn through SSDs to within a hair of their usable life, reset their SMART stats, and sell them as new on Amazon or ebay.

As can be seen in my above comment, larger distributors like "Maestro Technologies" have their stock polluted with parts like this and I find it very unlikely that they are not aware of the status of these parts they are selling as new.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network