Looking to earn some extra cash? Just grab a Sharpie and head to your local produce department.
That is what 24-year-old Alex Craig of North Texas has been doing since May.
Craig, an app developer by day, admits that his business, “Potato Parcel is “the dumbest idea ever”. He said that he came up with the idea while having dinner with his girlfriend. “She said, ‘You will not sell a single potato. This is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard,'” Craig told WFAA. “On our second day that we were live, and we started promoting it on Reddit, and we got $2,000 in orders, and I just knew this was it.”
Customers can buy a large potato, complete with custom message, for $9.99 and a medium potato for $7.99. The potato is then sent anonymously.
Craig says that he has already sold over 2,000 potatoes, because of course. He also claims to be making $10,000 a month from the service.
