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The National Parks.

I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.

Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course...

Those plastic balls for a ball pit. You order them in bags of 1000 pcs for 15 bucks on Aliexpress, they are bloody huge. A couple of those will do.

Especially if your goal is to mess with the delivery driver, you can max out available storage in the truck in no time.

I believe this is what you're looking for OP.

https://getchipdrop.com/

It's free.

Plastic lawn chair. They are one of the biggest dimensional losers. Cheap, but if you’re ordering just one the packing is super inefficient.

I suppose it’s not that much of a pain in the ass in retrospect but it’s definitely a mental pain considering the incredible poor efficiency of getting one delivered. Perhaps you can find an extremely large piece of Styrofoam because they cannot be folded.

Outside of the awesome 'national parks' answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn't have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.

If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.

You shouldn't think big, necessarily, you should think heavy. Postage to be paid on delivery.

Lead sheet in a return envelope is a great thank you for unsolicited application offers.

Heavy shit sent to UKIP is a classic one.

You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don't know about price there.

Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don't want to drop them because it'd make a mess.

How much do you want to spend? Used shipping container?

Hay bale - or multiple.

Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you're stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.

Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.

Horse manure tends to be free around these parts

I am curious what the purpose of this is

Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!

By area activated charcoal has a ton of surface area

Heaps and heaps of sand?

A house in an Italian village for €1.

A really big sheet of paper?

Can't you buy stars on websites online

A big fuck-off mylar balloon.

Air, cuz it's free, and by size the biggest object in our planet

Bouncy castle

The $18.6 million in cash and 225 gold bars in two boxes that belonged to the late Mr. Jimmy Lemi Milla.

I know this one, it’s skin!

I think if you're looking for largest volume of material to dump on your enemy per its cost, your best options are either going to be dirt or possibly a huge amount of expanded polystyrene, i.e. styrofoam. If you're doing this outside I think dirt is a better option, unless you can find somewhere to source really huge blocks of styrofoam. A thousand cubic feet of packing peanuts (approximately $2714) would certainly be funny, but they'd probably be prone to blowing away. That's no good if you want the mark having a tough time getting rid of them.

Does it have to be usable?