Seems like you've dealt with China

That's exactly correct. They also have "high water season" which forces to move miners around a lot. They even build unofficial secret hydro power plants, where conditions are not that great.
Also, the majority of mining operations were near 'water' at places with high humidity, getting a used miner that does not have some sort of corrosion on it is not normal, a long story short, the majority of used miners in China are ABUSED and many do not even work.