If you buy from the sellers I use there's no chance of a recovery, the chinese sellers with thousands of feedbacks will never recover an account.
I wouldn't buy an account from an individual ever to be honest, but those chinese sellers have their own bots they've made just to make accounts to sell, they're experts :3
I have 5 accounts right now from those types of sellers and 3 of them are from 2 years ago, still going strong
Just gotta be smart and vigilant and if something seems to good to be true, it probably is =D
Not disagreeing with you by the way or trying to start an argument or anything lol, I can only share my experience