If you get caught selling an Oculus Rift development kit through eBay, creators Oculus VR will cancel your pre-order with maximum prejudice.
Which is exactly what happened to one customer who tried to offer the $350 kit for a cool $5,000 via eBay. The community caught wind of it, and the offender’s Oculus order, set to ship out later this week, was deleted.
”Just so everyone is clear, the information provided alone was not enough to take action,” posted an Oculus community manager on the product line’s official forum. “We perform our own investigations with tools at our disposal to make sure that there isn’t a false positive. Our community is awesome! Thank you for helping us make sure that we are getting kits into the hands of devs and shutting down profiteers.”
It’s not just the one guy, either. A whole raft of version two dev kits posted for sale over eBay have been removed. The Oculus terms of sale don’t actively prohibit the resale of the development kit, but the company does reserve the right to cancel any pre-orders at any time. Which is what’s happened here. These are intended for developers after all.
The second version of the Oculus development kit is set to start shipping out this week, with an initial 10,000 units sent out first and another 35,000 to follow in due course.
