Want some Girl Scout cookies?
Cassie's been a girl scout for 3 years and this is her third Girl Scout cookie season. They've just added the option to sell cookies online, so any of you who are deprived of local girl scouts have the option of buying through her page.
A couple of caveats: the shipping and handling fee is pretty outrageous. I can't really encourage buying the cookies this way unless you have no other options and you just HAVE to have your thin mints.
US only shipping, I'm afraid. And even higher priced shipping to Alaska and Hawaii, woe.
I'm hoping there's enough blowback on these shipping rates that they lower them next year. I read The Bloggess's Open Letter to the Girl Scouts and I'm satisfied with their explanations about the pensions--they're in kind of a tight spot. But the shipping amounts never really were addressed. I suppose it's to keep the organization from losing money on digital sales compared to door-to-door and booth sales, but no one pays those kinds of shipping charges anymore. It's a bit of a shock.
Anyway, if you're still interested in buying cookies online after all that, and want to give Cassie the sale credit, here's the linkie.
I'll fill it out more with her when she gets home from school.
OH! If you're local (or even localish--like, can meet me in Amherst while I'm teaching or something), and want cookies, just let me know. We'll avoid these silly shipping charges altogether.
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A couple of caveats: the shipping and handling fee is pretty outrageous. I can't really encourage buying the cookies this way unless you have no other options and you just HAVE to have your thin mints.
US only shipping, I'm afraid. And even higher priced shipping to Alaska and Hawaii, woe.
I'm hoping there's enough blowback on these shipping rates that they lower them next year. I read The Bloggess's Open Letter to the Girl Scouts and I'm satisfied with their explanations about the pensions--they're in kind of a tight spot. But the shipping amounts never really were addressed. I suppose it's to keep the organization from losing money on digital sales compared to door-to-door and booth sales, but no one pays those kinds of shipping charges anymore. It's a bit of a shock.
Anyway, if you're still interested in buying cookies online after all that, and want to give Cassie the sale credit, here's the linkie.
I'll fill it out more with her when she gets home from school.
OH! If you're local (or even localish--like, can meet me in Amherst while I'm teaching or something), and want cookies, just let me know. We'll avoid these silly shipping charges altogether.
Also posted at http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/266021.html ; feel free to comment there if you so choose: add comment/
comments.