Valve requires a purchase to reserve. So each burner costs them money. It’d be more work for valve though.

They could preload the purchasers account then to resell it they have to open the product and remove the account and then it’s an open box product and can’t be sold as new or they don’t open it and scalpers accounts exposed.

I want something that works instead of PS5 Bluetooth that cuts off when I put it under my desk. It’s a first class controller designed for pc that just works. It also has other cool things like never dying.