{"id":35970,"date":"2021-08-22T01:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/doritos-pay-teen-150000-for-super-rare-puffed-out-nacho-chip\/"},"modified":"2021-08-22T02:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T20:42:52","slug":"doritos-pay-teen-150000-for-super-rare-puffed-out-nacho-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/doritos-pay-teen-150000-for-super-rare-puffed-out-nacho-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Doritos pay teen \u00a315,0000 for super rare &#8216;puffed out&#8217; nacho chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"lead-content__sub-title\">Rylee Stuart, 13, from the Gold Coast, Australia was eating a packet of Doritos when she found a rogue air-filled nacho, and initially put up the cheesy treat for auction on eBay<\/p>\n<div class=\"lead-content__lead-element lead-content__lead-element--image\">\n<div class=\"image image--wide\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">An Australian teen who found a puffy Dorito has been paid \u00a315,000 by the snack giant for her business savvy after they saw her try to sell it on eBay<\/span><span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"credit\"> (<\/span><\/span>Image: eBay)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<nav class=\"inline-nav\"><\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><!-- Article Start--><\/p>\n<p>Snack giant Doritos paid a 13-year-old girl \u00a315,000 for a &#8220;rare&#8221; puffed-up version of one of their crisps.<\/p>\n<p>Rylee Stuart, 13, said she was &#8220;surprised&#8221; when the company contacted her with a $20,000 (\u00a314,600) offer for a puffy Dorito.<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Coast teen uploaded a video of the unusual corn snack on her TikTok and soon went viral, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>A caption written on the video, shared with her 11,600 followers, read: &#8220;I found a puff Dorito! Is this valuable or should I just eat it. Tell me please&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/gold-coast-teen-set-to-pocket-thousands-from-puffy-doritos-chip-auction\/7a86fdca-37dd-46ac-8519-b401835d4340\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">9News<\/a>, Rylee said there has been a family debate over who gets the cash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was about to eat it, and I thought I better save it for later,&#8221; the teen recalled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container\" data-redesign-embed=\"true\"><span class=\"caption\">Rylee found the air-filled corn snack in her packet of supreme cheese Doritos, and tried to sell it on eBay<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Dad is saying that since he bought the packet, it&#8217;s his. But I ate the packet and found it, so I believe it is mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneurial youngster put the weird crisp up for sale on eBay with a starting bid of $0.99 and it rose to $5,000 within two hours, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Bids flooded in, rocketing up to $20,100, before eBay intervened, axed the auction and removed it from their site.<\/p>\n<p>In stepped Doritos, who were so impressed with Rylee&#8217;s business savvy they matched the final bid and paid her $20,000 (\u00a314,600).<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container\" data-redesign-embed=\"true\"><span class=\"caption\">eBay took the sale down, but Doritos decided to offer the youngster \u00a315,000 for<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-redesign-embed=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been so impressed with Rylee&#8217;s boldness and entrepreneurial spirit, so we wanted to make sure the Stuart family were rewarded for their creativity and love for Doritos,&#8221; Doritos Chief Marketing Officer Vandita Pandey said, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>After checking her eBay account, and seeing the air-filled crisp attract so much attention, she was shocked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I saw $10,000 and I like screamed,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rylee was invited on to Australia&#8217;s prime time Today Show, where she showed viewers the Dorito packed safely on a piece of kitchen roll in a tupperware box.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I would have all of this happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I guess it did and, I am surprised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rylee Stuart, 13, from the Gold Coast, Australia was eating a packet of Doritos when she found a rogue air-filled nacho, and initially put up &#8230; <a title=\"Doritos pay teen \u00a315,0000 for super rare &#8216;puffed out&#8217; nacho chip\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/doritos-pay-teen-150000-for-super-rare-puffed-out-nacho-chip\/\" aria-label=\"More on Doritos pay teen \u00a315,0000 for super rare &#8216;puffed out&#8217; nacho chip\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":35971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}