Girl Scout cookie selling not going well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Ask the parent of the girl about that. The adult has to approve girl delivery so the parents may not have approved that option, but it’s just a quick toggle they can change.

[Anonymous]

Wait the grandparents refused too? That should have been an indication something is off..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts should be ashamed of themselves, making little girls sell cancer- and heat disease-causing crap.

lol cancer??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor took our order but didn’t collect money. Are you SURE you need payment upfront and not just the orders?

I am wondering the same. I ordered from 2 parents at work and neither collected money. I don't remember paying upfront in previous years either.

My DD only did scouts for 2 years, but IIRC, the troop bought X amount of each cookie before the season. The girls sold from that stash and then leftovers were sold at booths in public places like Walmart. I remember driving the minivan to the local elementary school to unload box after box of cookies into the van from the huge tractor-trailers parked there.

[Anonymous]

We never had cookies in hand when my daughter sold cookies. You had a form and now I think it’s digital. Who are these people thinking Girl Scouts are Walmart with stock in hand?

[Anonymous]

Hmm this doesn’t sound right, as a Girl Scout cookie connoisseur. I just did a preorder with a Girl Scout neighbor and she said she’d collect the money when the cookies come in. I also bought some last year from an industrious little girl carting a wagon of cookies around the park. So paying before having the cookies seems odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most orders are sold through the digital cookie site. People pay via credit card there and then you deliver the cookies.

Paper orders - you collect the money after you deliver the cookies. Not while taking the order. You should have some time, like a week or so, when you’re given the cookies and can deliver and collect the money from the door to door paper sales before the money is due to your troop. You don’t need to front the money.

That said, my daughter barely sells any door to door. Just hasn’t had much luck. And is nowhere near 200 boxes sold.

You can’t set up a cookie booth on your own either. Only the sanctioned booths through your service unit are permitted. Your troop leader would sign up for booth slots. So if your troop isn’t doing booths, then yes it’s correct that you won’t have any cookies in hand to sell. The troop orders cookies to sell at the booth. Otherwise the only cookies ordered would be those ‘pre ordered’ cookies.

Op here. I’d like to sell at a sanctioned booth too.

The booth I was thinking would be in front of my house. We’re in a very walkable neighborhood and our neighbors love our kids.

Our troop cookie coordinator said you can do this. It's called a 'lemonade stand' - but you would need to get the cookies from the troop to be able to do this or buy them on your own.

[Anonymous]

That is not a thing. You can not take Pre order money for GS cookies ever.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe they still shill cookies this way. I quit Girl Scouts in the 1970s because I was uncomfortable knocking on neighbors' doors like that . . . and probably rightly so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Ask the parent of the girl about that. The adult has to approve girl delivery so the parents may not have approved that option, but it’s just a quick toggle they can change.

Online orders have to be orepaid. Paper card orders should not be prepaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they still shill cookies this way. I quit Girl Scouts in the 1970s because I was uncomfortable knocking on neighbors' doors like that . . . and probably rightly so.

They sell lots of different ways. No kne has to knock on doors or sell at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Girl delivery is currently turned off so all of us cookie leaders can submit our “initial order.” It will turn back on January 13th.

[Anonymous]

I always order them through the digital site, and have never had an issue with them not being delivered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts should be ashamed of themselves, making little girls sell cancer- and heat disease-causing crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they still shill cookies this way. I quit Girl Scouts in the 1970s because I was uncomfortable knocking on neighbors' doors like that . . . and probably rightly so.

They sell lots of different ways. No kne has to knock on doors or sell at all.

+1. I think there's one scout in our troop who knocks on doors but mostly people sell at booths or to family and friends.