It’s not off the small cog. I can see a tooth peeking through the chain just above the dropout. And there is nothing particularly off about the derailleur. What I wonder about is what looks like a washer between the derailleur and the dropout.
I would ask the seller to remove the derailleur and show a picture of the dropout to show whether it has been modified.
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