Quote Originally Posted by MrMatt View Post
Exactly, if they can blow them out at $1 or $0.50, I was thinking I should be able to pick up a case/skid for only a few hundred bucks.

I think they'd be great halloween treats. My wife LOVES being the "house giving good stuff". Hot Wheels would definitely help.
What you forget is that these stores buy hundreds of thousands of these and sell them for full price and full profit. Near the end, they cost the store more in space than they'd generate in profits, so they can't really afford not to blow them out. It's not the same as they buy them for less than these prices though, in the volume they purchase, they probably still make a small profit.

I suppose you could track down the auctions where they sell off these things to the discount store chains. All the dollar store type places attend them.