Girl Scouts just pissed me off

[two70]

When I heard about the new Raspberry flavored cookies coming out this year I went looking for someone to take my order.
Found someone who said they were selling the cookies this year.
I made contact and placed my order before the organization actually started taking orders.
Today I received a text telling me that this person attempted to place my order on the first day the organization began accepting orders, only to be told that they were sold out, on day one, and I will not be able to receive the order I tried to place in advance.

Obviously the Girl Scouts organization has woefully underestimated demand.
I asked to order 10 boxes of a brand new cookie at $6/ box.

I don't think I will be placing any more orders in the future.

I don't get it. Instead of paying $6 a box for GS cookies, you could just eat a cardboard box and not only save money but have a better tasting snack.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I hate it that the GS’s have joined the other woke/politically correct organizations. Buying those mediocre cookies to help support a good cause used to be something I enjoyed doing.

 

[KLB]

I like Thin Mints.

Keebler Grasshopper cookies

Keebler® Grasshopper® Cookies | Keebler

We took a crispy mint cookie and dunked it in delicious fudge to make our famed Grasshopper® cookies.

www.keebler.com

 

[Trigger Time]

I added girls scouts to my list of professionals not to screw with.
ER Nurses, flight attendants, bartenders...
If I walk out of the grocery store and a GS asks me to buy cookies, my answer is yes ma'am.
If you say no, the look they give you cuts through your soul. It's as if they are going to come murder you in your sleep.
No thank you, im keeping my soul! Get behind me Satan. I'll buy the damn cookies

 

[rhamersley]

I added girls scouts to my list of professionals not to screw with.
ER Nurses, flight attendants, bartenders...
If I walk out of the grocery store and a GS asks me to buy cookies, my answer is yes ma'am.
If you say no, the look they give you cuts through your soul. It's as if they are going to come murder you in your sleep.
No thank you, im keeping my soul! Get behind me Satan. I'll buy the damn cookies

I have two granddaughters both in a troop run by my daughter...built in excuse, thankfully.

 

[gregkl]

Keebler Grasshopper cookies

Keebler® Grasshopper® Cookies | Keebler

We took a crispy mint cookie and dunked it in delicious fudge to make our famed Grasshopper® cookies.

www.keebler.com

Hah! That would make it too easy to eat more than two boxes a year!

 

[COOPADUP]

You paid $5 per box of cookies? Delivered? I suppose that’s not exactly fleecing. That’s not what Girl Scouts are charging at Walmart. Was that the family discount?

Maybe Walmart is getting a dollar per box for providing the venue.

 

[rhamersley]

Maybe Walmart is getting a dollar per box for providing the venue.

Probably different councils have different markups. I know my daughter's troops' cookies were $6 a box, and they're out of whatever the Indianapolis council is.

 

[Leo]

**Warning, old man statement*** When I was a kid I spent most of my odd job money buying boxes of cookies from a girl in school. She had started talking real sweet to me, and I thought she was cute. I think the cookies were 50 cents a box then. She stopped paying attention to me after all the cookies were sold. That single event should have clued me in to some life long facts about interpersonal exchanges.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

I like Thin Mints.

Those are the only good ones...

However, starving Iraqi kids will gladly take any of them.
Ask me how I know.

 

[rob63]

You paid $5 per box of cookies? Delivered? I suppose that’s not exactly fleecing. That’s not what Girl Scouts are charging at Walmart. Was that the family discount?

No discount. I think it depends on what flavor you get. I like peanut butter.

 

[WebSnyper]

Whenever I've seen them going door to door in the past, they still had the same entourage of a mother and her friends. Also a wagon.
I think the current static sales location method is more due to the mother's being tired of all the walking than any brainstorm on the part of the young girls.

Door to door was up to the individual to do or not, if I recall. Girl Scouts had a booking system in the past where troops can book a time slot that included a list of participating businesses. I assume that is still done that way. Now they also have online sales as well. It's not like a parent grabs up a bunch of kids and just randomly camps at any store without permission, signing up, etc, at least that's the way it was several years ago.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Wait - I thought only "snowflakes" were supposed to get upset at benign / minor things?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

When I heard about the new Raspberry flavored cookies coming out this year I went looking for someone to take my order.
Found someone who said they were selling the cookies this year.
I made contact and placed my order before the organization actually started taking orders.
Today I received a text telling me that this person attempted to place my order on the first day the organization began accepting orders, only to be told that they were sold out, on day one, and I will not be able to receive the order I tried to place in advance.

Obviously the Girl Scouts organization has woefully underestimated demand.
I asked to order 10 boxes of a brand new cookie at $6/ box.

I don't think I will be placing any more orders in the future.

Don't they still do the drive throughs? I saw one at the Wal-Green's on 26 and Creasy last year.

Drive up, place order, girls run up and give you cookies, drive off.

 

[jamil]

I added girls scouts to my list of professionals not to screw with.
ER Nurses, flight attendants, bartenders...
If I walk out of the grocery store and a GS asks me to buy cookies, my answer is yes ma'am.
If you say no, the look they give you cuts through your soul. It's as if they are going to come murder you in your sleep.
No thank you, im keeping my soul! Get behind me Satan. I'll buy the damn cookies

The key is to keep walking without making eye contact. As if you're focusing on something extremely important.

 

[Trigger Time]

The key is to keep walking without making eye contact. As if you're focusing on something extremely important.

They can sense fear

 

[Expat]

Whatever happened to coming to the door and selling them. and yes I am old enough to remember them doing that at one time.

 

[jamil]

Whatever happened to coming to the door and selling them. and yes I am old enough to remember them doing that at one time.

The only chance of that now is if they're related. Or your neighbor.

 

[HoughMade]

Kinda glad I never developed a GS cookie habit as the Girl Scouts are something I would have a hard time sending my money to....but to each their own.

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

The key is to keep walking without making eye contact. As if you're focusing on something extremely important.

I find this usually works well for me