It was a list of counters, ones I would not have said were worded in an especially hard to read way (no crazy grammar, double meanings or anything like that), to your claim that only devs would need one and that nobody should be reselling them, both of which I hold are wrong and wrong for very common scenarios in development and otherwise. This was entirely separate to the issue of scalpers/bulk resellers which OR could possibly benefit from frustrating.
To go in a bit more depth
"Someone got one to test, found it was not fit for task and is now reselling. I can not begin to count the amount of stuff I have done that for -- you can read all the specs sheets you want but hands on counts for so much more."
OR is hardly the only "glasses with screens in" product on the market and they face stiff competition that is improving (and may even be superior in various ways*) every day. I tend not to do it for such high end products but there have been plenty of times I have brought in 20 different chips/devices that might be suitable for the task and done a shootout. Sometimes I test to destruction but often enough I use it for the few hours I need, find something is suitable and then find myself left with several kilos or no small amount of money worth of hardware doing nothing. indeed those reselling hardware with them having done similar things is often where I might get my initial samples.
*for the scenario I may only need the glasses with screens in, the controls may be pointless for my purposes and for the money I might be able to get something with better screens in. Alternatively I may need something for a proof of concept and the OR API may allow me to do that more easily which allows me to then get the go ahead to spend the time programming it for a different device.
"Someone got one to test, life happened and is now lacking the time to do anything with it."
I would have thought such a thing is fairly self evident but OK. If there is one thing I do not trust in this world it is an engineer/programmer that does not fiddle with stuff on their own time. However free time is not always the most and if I buy in a toy, suddenly get lumped with a project/job I may well be sitting on something that is only going to go down in value, why I would not flog it on and rebuy later (or move to something else) I am not sure.
"There are quite a few titles with OR and similar device support added onto it, to that end beta testers could well do with such a device."
I like good beta testers and they well worth the price of admission, however they are not typically called devs and as such we have a non dev use for a product.
http://www.riftenabled.com/admin/apps/ has quite a few things they could help in. A scenario in which they get bored of the device is not hard to envision either.
"OR got purchased by facebook, a philosophical or other objection (or just future predictions of failure) could well be a reason to resell."
Companies get purchased all the time, fact of life really and a well known problem in engineering. Facebook's history of purchases and that they frequently nerf things (often for good/understandable reasons but nerfing is still nerfing), or even general philosophical objections, could see the need to sell before it becomes a reality and the price/value drops.
All of these are common scenarios in development and engineering. To go further I could be a buyer for an electronics seller -- it may be a beta/dev kit but a lot can still be found out from one. Likewise even if I am not a dev I might just have enough hardware/programming knowledge to have it useful for my purposes.