Girl Scout cookie selling not going well

[Anonymous]

Your neighbors are weird. I won’t eat the cookies but still bought three boxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are actually not supposed to accept payment up front. People order and pay when the cookies are delivered. As for the wagon situation, you can order cookies "for yourself" now and then sell them to your neighbors when you receive them.

But yes, the ordering period for GSCNC SUCKS, it's stupid to have it completely over the holidays. I hate it.

For the 3rd year in a row we’ve sold zero boxes so far because I will not attempt to do it over the holidays. I have zero capacity for one more thing. It is the stupidest time for sales and we can’t be the only families that think so.

Neither DH nor I can sell at work. I think I may take DD to the metro station or a nearby college campus in her scout uniform and hand out her digital cookie link/QR code.

There are only 2 bakers that generate GS cookies for all of VA every region needs to take turns and stagger sales so the bakers can adequately keep up with orders/ship them out in a timely manner.

Therefore troops in the natl cap region have sales during the holidays. Move south if you want your cookies sold later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP GS cookies have always been pre-ordered (at least for last 10-15 years when my girls were in it). Money is collected when cookies are delivered. I order from every GS who comes to my door, whether I know them or not. I do not buy from their parents who text me, post on FB, or bring in an order form to work. The goal is for the girls to learn to sell cookies, not their parents.

I sold them 40 years ago and it was pre sale then too.

[Anonymous]

If you take your daughter into the office, she’ll sell more cookies. No one wants to buy from you but they will from the actual GS.

[Anonymous]

My kid quit GS several years ago, but I will say that anyone willing to do neighborhood sales in the DC area should head out tomorrow.

My kid went out in a snowstorm and sold a sh*t ton of orders. Everyone was home and either felt sorry for her or appreciated her ambition, I dunno.

I freaking hated GS, but that was pretty entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Grandparents/uncle/aunt & we (parents) have bought 20 boxes of cookie to support for little girl scout daisy even though no one really likes the cookies. DH & my parents are diabetic. I have sold 3 boxes at work. And, that is it, all through digital cookie website. I am not taking her to door to door because it seems weird. I have shared my girl scout cookie link on social media that my friends can see, no one buy from the link. We will do cookie booth one day, so that is much I would do as far as I put in effort.

[Anonymous]

My DD is not selling this year after selling in 2022, 2023 and 2024. After covid, they really benefited from decreased Girl Scout participation and customers eager for interaction and community. In 2021 and 22, her troop had wildly good booth sales and broke all sorts of records. In 2022 and 2023, DD was old enough and brave enough to take orders door to door and sold almost 100 boxes in a neighborhood of maybe 35 houses. In 2024, her sales were down 30% as were the rest of the troops. People just weren’t enthusiastic or supportive as they had been in the past and in our area troop enrollment was way up, so sales were diluted across a greater number of Girl Scouts. It didn’t help that she has a few girls in her troops with very wealthy families who solicit cash donations for cookie orders to go to the military. I’m grateful that it supports the troop and the organization and that so many people are generous with their cash. But it was a reality check for little girls who were at every booth and walking around in the cold rain to sell 500 boxes to realize that their friends were credited with 2000+ boxes with way less effort.

DD realized that she was playing a losing game and decided to stop selling. I’m sad and relieved.

[Anonymous]

It’s time we broke the GS cookie cartel. But darn those thin mints are good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you take your daughter into the office, she’ll sell more cookies. No one wants to buy from you but they will from the actual GS.

This is not ethical and can get you in trouble at a lot of workplaces. My fed office sends around a specific email yearly reminding everyone about Girl Scout cookies. (Ethics office seriously has some grinches. You can even do a March Madness bracket even if you’re not betting)

[Anonymous]

I do not see a way to choose girl delivery online and not pay. A few people have specifically mentioned not having to pay on the website.

[Anonymous]

This is also a terrible time of year to sell. Even people not on new years diets just came off a month of indulgent eating with lots of cookies and treats. A cookie does not sound appealing right now, let alone a $10 box of cookies.

[Anonymous]

I will NEVER pre-pay for cookies. EVER.

If you’ve got them where I can buy them on the spot, great, I’ll take 6 boxes of thin mints and 2 boxes of whatever those other things are.

But pay now and get them in March?


Hard no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid quit GS several years ago, but I will say that anyone willing to do neighborhood sales in the DC area should head out tomorrow.

My kid went out in a snowstorm and sold a sh*t ton of orders. Everyone was home and either felt sorry for her or appreciated her ambition, I dunno.

I freaking hated GS, but that was pretty entertaining.

I did this as a kid too and raked it in. Just bundled up super warm. Pity sales are the best!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will NEVER pre-pay for cookies. EVER.

If you’ve got them where I can buy them on the spot, great, I’ll take 6 boxes of thin mints and 2 boxes of whatever those other things are.

But pay now and get them in March?


Hard no.

Actually they come in 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are actually not supposed to accept payment up front. People order and pay when the cookies are delivered. As for the wagon situation, you can order cookies "for yourself" now and then sell them to your neighbors when you receive them.

But yes, the ordering period for GSCNC SUCKS, it's stupid to have it completely over the holidays. I hate it.

For the 3rd year in a row we’ve sold zero boxes so far because I will not attempt to do it over the holidays. I have zero capacity for one more thing. It is the stupidest time for sales and we can’t be the only families that think so.

Neither DH nor I can sell at work. I think I may take DD to the metro station or a nearby college campus in her scout uniform and hand out her digital cookie link/QR code.

There are only 2 bakers that generate GS cookies for all of VA every region needs to take turns and stagger sales so the bakers can adequately keep up with orders/ship them out in a timely manner.

Therefore troops in the natl cap region have sales during the holidays. Move south if you want your cookies sold later.

Move South? Really?
How about GS rotates who gets stuck selling between the week before Christmas until 1/5? No one is around to buy these cookies. Why should one region take the hit every year?