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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was the cookie mom several years ago when DD was in scouts. It is a horrid process from start to end. Yes - the idea is you collect the money upfront from the customer. If you don't want to do that, you pay upfront and get reimbursed on delivery. That is your choice, but the cookies will not be ordered until paid.

The troop gets 1 chance to place the order with the regional cookie gods and the order can only be placed by the troop's designated cookie parent. Cookies will not be shipped till order is paid in full.

You can only order full cases (which used to be 12 boxes). So, if the troop collectively sold 15 boxes of Thin Mints, the cookie parent orders 2 cases. The 9 leftover boxes are used for the table sales that you see outside of Giant.

Once the case sales have closed, the cookie parent enters into a lottery to get a place, date, and time to do a table sale at a local retailer. We lucked out and got a Saturday morning at the local Giant.

The whole process was difficult, time consuming, and painful. However, the troop did earn over $900 for their effort. [/quote]

I'm sorry but the part about payment is not true, or at least not these days. I handle the bank account for our troop. Money to pay for the cookies will not be withdrawn until much later in cookie season, after cookies are received. We do not collect money at the time of order and could not pay for the cookies with what's in the account today.

It is a big lift for parent volunteers, thank you for volunteering. [/quote]

As I said, it was several years ago. On one hand, it's good that payment up front is no longer required. On the other, I can see where a troop may get stuck with cookies that nobody wants.[/quote]

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