Buy a car without physically seeing it

Brings back memories of when I nearly purchased a Duster based on pics posted online. Wired the seller 11k and had the balance in cash burning a hole in my pocket. Suspicions were aroused when i looked closely at one of the pics of the passenger side door. Asked the seller if any body work had been done as he claimed in the posting ‘rust free’. A couple of days later a new pic was sent to me where he had the area touched up by a local shop. When I arrived to pick up the car, i could tell from 30’ this was not going to end well. Car was Swiss cheese. We took a spin in it and he asked if I was going to load it up, I told him no and that I’d like my money back. Went to the local bank, which was closed, and had to wait until the following week for him to return mos of what I had paid. End of the day I agreed to pay him 400 for the touch up work in return for the 10.6k. Fortunately he agreed, albeit reluctantly. I overcame the $400 rather easily, but the dent to my pride/ego took a while. A mistake that I will not repeat