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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girl Scouts is a scam![/quote]

The selling really is. My daughter has been in it for 5 years and I refuse to let her participate in cookie sales. They make pennies on the box at the leaders decide what they do with the money, not the girls. I’d happily give a donation. I ask my daughter why she wants to work to have someone else get paid and explain MLM companies to her every year during cookie sales. [/quote]

Feel free not to sell cookies, but please don't spread misinformation. 
- The girls are supposed to decide what to do with the money. I'm sorry you got a bad leader, but that's also something you or your DD can speak up about.
- It's not an MLM since your daughter is not recruiting anyone to sell for her. 
- All the profits stay with the local council or the troop. So yes it's only about 75 cents a box for the troop's coffers, but it's another $1 or so for the local council which maintains the camp properties and other resources.  If you go to summer camps, borrow camping equipment from the council stash, or go to big events for multiple units, you are benefiting from cookie money.
- Donations are not allowed, because funding the troop through sales means everyone can participate even if they don't have money.  But if your DD doesn't contribute to sales, then when she gets a badge or goes on a trip, she is benefiting from money other scouts earned; I wonder if you've explained that to her.

OP, I'm sorry your leader has been unresponsive.  As someone else said, there is a cookie parent (not the leader) who is in charge of this.  You give that person your order form, and she orders the cookies by the case.  You are not responsible for ordering in round numbers; any overage from the case purchases is sold at booths or used to fill orders by other girls or troops.
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