Buy Girl Scout Cookies, from my daughter, Online!

Scsmith42 said:
Feel like getting in some range time? My farm is only 15 minutes from Pittsboro. Would be great to combine a cookie delivery with some range time.
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Maybe I’ll just buy some and bring them that way. :D
 
Scsmith42 said:
Feel like getting in some range time? My farm is only 15 minutes from Pittsboro. Would be great to combine a cookie delivery with some range time.
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Absolutely! Also, I'm a member of the Chatham County Law Enforcement Officers Association. We have an outdoor shooting range on 64 between Pittsboro and Siler City.

I'd be happy to take anyone out there, to shoot, on a weekend. It's usually empty. And there are no range officers, so we can do what we want. Shooting and moving, barricades, steel targets, whatever!
 
hey. it seems there's a little thing called "buy five get entered to win a bunch"...
if i had known i wouldn't have only bought 4
 
Alabamacoastie said:
So, click the link that I provided earlier and that takes you to the page that's set up for my daughter, Grace... Then click "Cookie Share" and donate as much ($4 each) as you like. Then, that many boxes get shipped to the troops overseas and my girls get credit for the sale.

Cookie Share is a blanket term. Different troops donate coookies to different groups of people. But, our troop only donates to Operation Cookie Drop. So, whatever you order from my daughter's link (and click Cookie Share) is guaranteed to go to troops deployed overseas...

Thank you!
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Done :)
 
Alabamacoastie said:
Absolutely! Also, I'm a member of the Chatham County Law Enforcement Officers Association. We have an outdoor shooting range on 64 between Pittsboro and Siler City.

I'd be happy to take anyone out there, to shoot, on a weekend. It's usually empty. And there are no range officers, so we can do what we want. Shooting and moving, barricades, steel targets, whatever!
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I’ve never been to that range but wouldn’t mind checking it out. Do they allow full auto?
 
Whatever happened to using Girl Scout Cookies as a way to teach young girls about interacting with other people, especially adults. Having them go out and actually sell them to people, giving them goals to meet and things to strive for as they earn badges with their sales numbers. If mom and dad sell the cookies on the internet for them, it defeats that whole purpose.
It used to be a learning tool, now it's just a business.
 
phideux said:
Whatever happened to using Girl Scout Cookies as a way to teach young girls about interacting with other people, especially adults. Having them go out and actually sell them to people, giving them goals to meet and things to strive for as they earn badges with their sales numbers. If mom and dad sell the cookies on the internet for them, it defeats that whole purpose.
It used to be a learning tool, now it's just a business.
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That’s why I thought it would be fun for my girls to buy it from them. Even though I’m setting up the meet, they can do all the business
 
phideux said:
Whatever happened to using Girl Scout Cookies as a way to teach young girls about interacting with other people, especially adults. Having them go out and actually sell them to people, giving them goals to meet and things to strive for as they earn badges with their sales numbers. If mom and dad sell the cookies on the internet for them, it defeats that whole purpose.
It used to be a learning tool, now it's just a business.
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Some still are. and if you read the thread, you'd know that OP even said he'd bring his girls out to make the delivery and close the deal. One of the tables i bought from yesterday was full of talks about sales techniques, marketing, seasonal supply, the frustrating instructions to wait until 9am on 1/11, etc.
 
phideux said:
Whatever happened to using Girl Scout Cookies as a way to teach young girls about interacting with other people, especially adults. Having them go out and actually sell them to people, giving them goals to meet and things to strive for as they earn badges with their sales numbers. If mom and dad sell the cookies on the internet for them, it defeats that whole purpose.
It used to be a learning tool, now it's just a business.
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It's always been a business... The company that makes the cookies keeps 75% of the money. The Girl Scouts Headquarters keeps 20%. And about 5% goes to the troop. The troop gets almost nothing, but it is what it is...

My wife and I take our girls to a different local downtown area every Saturday afternoon, and I pull a wagon full of cookies while my girls do all the taking. They love it, and they are both very outgoing. Pittsboro, Apex, Carrboro, Sanford, etc.

This online thing is just something extra to make it more convenient for folks that don't want to go buy cookies in public.

Thank you to everyone who has already ordered! We really appreciate it!
 
Alabamacoastie said:
It's always been a business... The company that makes the cookies keeps 75% of the money. The Girl Scouts Headquarters keeps 20%. And about 5% goes to the troop. The troop gets almost nothing, but it is what it is...

My wife and I take our girls to a different local downtown area every Saturday afternoon, and I pull a wagon full of cookies while my girls do all the taking. They love it, and they are both very outgoing. Pittsboro, Apex, Carrboro, Sanford, etc.

This online thing is just something extra to make it more convenient for folks that don't want to go buy cookies in public.

Thank you to everyone who has already ordered! We really appreciate it!
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I'd say the online thing is mainly due to the lack of people carrying cash anymore. Tough to sell a box of cookies when they can't pay you. I think I saw someone using a square last year.
 
ChickenHawk said:
I'd say the online thing is mainly due to the lack of people carrying cash anymore. Tough to sell a box of cookies when they can't pay you. I think I saw someone using a square last year.
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Yep! My wife has a Girl Scout app on her phone that allows people to pay with a card. She punches in the number and it charges the card and the card holder gets an email receipt.

One day, last year, we pulled the wagon full of cookies around the quad at UNC Chapel Hill. My girls asked all the college kids to buy cookies and none of them had cash, but they were super excited when they found out they could just charge them to "daddy's" credit card...
 
Yeah boy. I got an email alert yesterday that my five boxes of greatness are on the way. Says they will be here by next Thursday. Gotta make sure I have plenty of milk at home for next weekend, lol.

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I would like to give excellent feedback for @Alabamacoastie and his daughters. They met me and my daughters to sell us cookies tonight. Transaction went smoothly and I can confirm that some of the cookies have already been eaten. :)
Nice to meet you in person, and thanks again!
 
Alabamacoastie said:
Great question!

Absolutely! Anybody who lives near Pittsboro can PM me directly and I'll bring the cookies to you. If we agree on a time to meet that's not during school hours, then I'll bring my girls to "sell" them to you.
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When my kids were small I used to do it that way also. I'd take the order sheet to work, mass email to everyone and folks would come by to order cookies. When they came in I always took my daughter to work one day and we'd walk around, she'd deliver all the cookies, and thank everyone. Good time for everyone!
 
Alabamacoastie said:
So, click the link that I provided earlier and that takes you to the page that's set up for my daughter, Grace... Then click "Cookie Share" and donate as much ($4 each) as you like. Then, that many boxes get shipped to the troops overseas and my girls get credit for the sale.

Cookie Share is a blanket term. Different troops donate coookies to different groups of people. But, our troop only donates to Operation Cookie Drop. So, whatever you order from my daughter's link (and click Cookie Share) is guaranteed to go to troops deployed overseas...

Thank you!
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Just did this. Sorry for the delay!
 
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