I’ve got a bunch of these. When they were being released at 7/11’s and Plaid Pantries, I would get a handful of them to collect and maybe eat one day.
But now that Paqui the company is never going to make these again after the death of a high schooler in Massachusetts, what should I do with them?
I’ve got like eight 2023, five 2022, five 2021, and two 2020.
Can I sell them for a profit? Or are they just trash.
by OrdinaryVillage892
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These were mass produced recently. Most are barely worth what they would have been inflation-adjusted if they still were being made. So, currently, no.
They will gain value over time, but other people are going to have the same idea and it’s going to be taking up storage space for you. The value of things like this is a factor of how many people want it out of nostalgia (10+ years) how many people like you gave up and threw theirs out, and how many people like you did hold onto them but then had something destroy them like mold or a water leak.
My father used to keep all our McDonalds toys and other things that were manufactured like this when we were young. A few of them from when I was young turned out to be worth a bit of money – the most was something like $80 to a guy in a Japan in the early 2000s. But he only ended up able to get anything out of maybe 20 items out of 4-5 paper boxes full of stuff he kept.
Pokemon cards did have a resurgence that sent them up to ridiculous prices, and other franchises have had the same, but this one isn’t likely to be coming back. There’s probably not going to be a new release of Paqui chip challenges to spur on a revival of interest in people’s old boxes of now-inedible chips.
Keep them if you feel like it, but it’s not a good bet on high return on your investment of storing them.
Eat them all back to back and report back to us