It might scream re-gifting, but we need to become happy with re-gifting. In the current economic and ecological climate, throwing away unwanted gifts or toys after mild use is ridiculous. If these boxes become popular, it becomes possible to regift without it looking so obvious and that's a good thing.
You say that now, until you buy a USB flash drive or a CD and while opening it you nearly destroy the product or you cut yourself to the point that you bleed prodigiously all over it.
how do you manage to cut yourself when opening a box?
You must not have encountered the hard, welded plastic envelopes in which they typically sell small electronic goods. (where the hell do you live?) They're effectively impossible to open without a very sturdy set of scissors, and even then it's easy to scratch your hand when you get impatient and try to fish out your device.
Ah thats why. I use a box cutter to open my packages. That way nobody gets hurt.
I'd love to receive a gift in this box as any. It is a GIFT! How can you not be happy, unless someone 'gifts' you a yellow-jacket colony?
Someone recently regifted a 32GB flash drive to me. I could not care less that it wasn't in the original packaging.
After a few years these packages will be recognizable as new mail-ordered items to one and all.
From a frustration standpoint - they look easier to wrap. Now a days I can barely wrap a lot of these squirrelly toy packages.