Yeah, small media at those prices can be useful for a lot of things. About two years ago I was trying to buy a bulk of either small capacity USB sticks or small capacity SD cards in order to do a stealth giveaway on an … avant garde media project. I gave up because I couldn’t get any more than a handful.
I guess you could do the same thing with QCodes or something but getting people to open one of those is kind of onerous whereas my first instinct when finding an old USB stick or SD card is to plug it in and see what’s on it.
Disclaimer: My project wasn’t going to be malicious. Just cute/mind bendy.