Okay, I am the "cookie manager" for my daughter's Brownie troop.  Here is the scoop: all troops must purchase cookies by the case.  For example if you sell only ONE box of the crappy sugar free chocolate chip cookies, you must purchase 12 from Council.  They are like the mafia; they do not care if you can sell them or not.  As I am writing this, I have $150 worth of girl scout cookies sitting in my kitchen.  Now it is my responsibility to sell them and recoup the money.  Did I know this when I signed up to help?  No.  I can see why this guy is selling them.  I can't even give my girl scout cookies away at this point.  I am tired of nagging my friends, family and neighbors.  I would rather sell them on Ebay than go door to door pandering thin mints.  Just a FYI; my daughter is 6.  The girl scout council "suggested" that each girl set their sale goal at 145 boxes.  Yes, that is insane.  

As a mother of a four-year-old girl, I'm already dreading the process of the GS cookies.  It is a racket, but I now know to run for the hills when the troop asks for someone to be "cookie manager".

Rebecca, if you were my neighbor, I'd purchase some from you.

Hope this "guy" is an abberation and this isn't a growing trend.  For what he's asking he doesn't seem to be making huge profits.  Not a savvy business man, just a man with poor judgement. Or maybe, he simply read the nutrition info on the back once he received them and came to his senses - do you have ANY idea how much fat is in those Somoas?

We went through years of Girl Scouts. The sales expectations were ridiculous. In my experience the only ones who met them were girls whose parents took the forms to school and sold them to co-workers. We thought this was a bad idea and explained it to our daughter: she never sold more than 15 boxes, half of which were to us.

I'm a lifetime Girl Scout member, in graduate school now, and I hated cookie season. Even though people (including my parents) liked to buy cookies, I felt horrible hawking boxes of cookies all over the place. Only once did I ever sell a massive amount, 206 boxes to be precise. All the other years I would reluctantly get 20-30 boxes, if that.

While they are tasty, they're a pain.

sounds smart to me

Girl Scouts make jack squat off of the cookies (individually and by troop, that is--another portion goes to the statewide councils).  To make enough money to significantly defray camp expenses (etc) they generally need to sell in the hundreds of boxes.  So consider adding $5 or so to the order--a check made out to the troop--which will net them as much as selling several dozen boxes would otherwise.

If you have cases of Lemonades, I will totally buy them from you and take them off your hands! We didn't have any girl scouts selling in our area and I am craving them! marne@hotmail.com