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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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NP. We have just one person for 9 kids and she does everything. I am not sure why no one else has stepped up. I will- next year when I have some experience. [/quote]

New poster. I was a GS troop leader for 12 years as well as a GS camp staffer for five years.

Just posting to thank both the very well-informed and experienced leader (or cookie manager, or both?) who posted above, and the parent who plans to volunteer. Correcting misinformation about GS and about cookie sales is vital. The process can be very beneficial for the girls on many levels. It's not everyone's idea of fun, but it is how things like GS camps can afford to operate in this incredibly expensive region; it provides troop funds; it can, if well run, help girls feel a sense of achievement; it benefits U.S. manufacturing too, as someone pointed out above. Knee-jerk cries of "Scam" and "MLM" are based on complete misunderstanding of how the campaign actually functions and where the benefits actually go.

Thanks to the PP here who so reasonably laid out what cookie sales are and are not, and to the parent who sees that one person handling everything isn't tenable for very long. Thank you for volunteering soon!

And speaking as someone who trained and oversaw probably hundreds of girls on challenge course equipment like zip lines and climbing walls and other ropes courses elements -- cookie money really does make those kinds of adventure experiences possible for girls from ALL kinds of backgrounds. [/quote]

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