On Sunday the granddaughter of one of our guild members was at my door selling Girl Scout cookies. Her grandmother was in the car yelling to me I needed to buy lots of cookies. I felt a lot of pressure from her. I bought 3 boxes. After she left I gave them away to family and neighbors. (We can't even kept them in the house)
Today I was talking to my daughter in Virginia. She had to buy a couple of boxes outside the local Walmart. She paid $3.00 a box. I'm in California and paid $4.00 a box. I'm just curious how much do they cost in your area? I'm a little shocked at the cost difference.

$ 4/ box in Missouri

They are even more expensive here.$4.50...I think that the different councils are allowed to set there own prices.

$4 in Orange County, CA.
Each GS Council makes their own arrangements with one of a small number of authorized bakeries, and sets their own price. Part of the price you pay goes to the girl's troop, part to the Council for administrative expenses including leader training.

$3.50 a box in Alabama. I thought they cost the same everywhere; guess not.

$4.00 per box in Central California. They have been the same price for 2 years now.

$4.50 in South Florida

$4 in OC where my niece is. Someone already said that. I'm not sure how much they are in my town, probably the same!

Local Girl Scout Counsils are allowed to set the selling price....but all the profit made from the cookies goes to the girls programs

I just bought some from my oldest DGD; they were $3.50 a box (in Texas).

I don't understand how the prices can be different if they are all GirlScout cookies?

A box of GS cookies are $3.50 in Iowa.

I paid $3.50 per box when I bought them from my granddaughter here in Iowa.

I'd pay anything for their Thin Mints :D:D:D

They are $3.50 here in Iowa. What bothers me about this (gs cookies, magazine sales, etc) is why is it most of the time the parents end up taking these things around to family and work, but the kids never sell any of it. I do understand that most of the time, these things are fundraisers for programs or trips, but what are we teaching the children with it? My rule has always been... I'll buy, but only if I get the speech from the child. Not if its a parent just passing it around at work. I remember walking around the neighborhood as a child and selling magazines. I met a lot of people and it doesn't bother me to talk to people I don't know, is it because I went door to door or is it just my personality??? (I'm not saying door to door is the answer, I realize it isn't as safe for children as it was for me as a kid.)

LOL, me too, they are my favorite!

The last time the Girl Scout tried to sell me cookies, they were $7.50, needless to say, I didn't buy any. That's highway robbery.

My problem is.......when I sold them they were only .50 cents a box!!!!! LOL

AND TO ADD TO THIS....PARENTS SEND A MESSAGE OUT THROU THEIR EMAIL....SORRY I WILL NOT BUY...I AGREE I THINK THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE TO DO THE WORK IF IT IS A FUND RAISER...Come from the old school I guess !

Most of the time they no longer go around with the pre-order form, they just get the # of boxes of cookies they have set as their goal (or some portion thereof) and try to sell them, plus they do the 'sale' at Wal-Mart or wherever where they do the sale to whoever walks by.

All proceeds beyond the actual cost of the cookies at wholesale goes to the troop, incentives to reward the girls, operating expenses for the council, leader training, camps, etc. It really is all geared to provide a good program for the girls.

Each council chooses which cookies they will sell, which incentives they will use (my daughter got a free week at camp several years in a row back when she did it) and how much they are going to charge per box.

I think its time for the Girl Scouts to find something different to sell. Maybe thread, fabric etc...Not only has the price of these cookies gone up, but your getting half the cookies. Here in Arizona they are $4.00.. BTW I didnt buy any this year and dont plan on it.

Same here!!!

$2 then $2.50 when DD was selling.

$3.50 last weekend when helping friend's granddaughter by sitting with her in front of WM last Saturday along with her friend and that girl's mom.

A little girl came to my door a few weeks ago and asked me if I would like to buy any GS cookies. I said sure, and invited her in, it was really icy cold out that evening, she wouldn't come in, her mom was sitting in the car, so I asked her how much they were and she said $3.50 a box. I took the form inside and she stood out there on the porch in the icy windy cold weather until I opened the door and gave her the form back. She said they would be in sometime around February. Haven't heard from her yet, since then. I purchased 4 boxes from the little girl and she said, "Thank You!" She is suppose to call me when they are being delivered. I was a GS once, so I just wanted to help her out!

$5/box here. I wasn't willing to pay that this year.

When I was a Girl Scout I sold them for $2.50...but back then the price of everything was cheaper than it is now...I agree $7.50 is steep, but $3.50 / $4.00 a box is really not that bad. The price of milk has gone up at least $3 since I moved out of my parents house and gas...let's not get started on that...if in 15+ years they have gone up $1-$2 dollars I don't see an issue with the price (as long as they are not $7.50) ;)

Maybe if you want to take the issue up with the GS' maybe write a letter to your local GS counsil?

That is just nuts!!!

I've wondered if the girls had a more difficult time selling this year with so many people out of work. Kind of a catch-22 I guess. Raise the price to cover the potentially lower sales numbers, but risk losing more sales by doing so. If we weren't really focused on intentional spending and I wasn't in the midst of taking off a few pounds . . . I may have caved and bought some.

$4

i agree with you. nothing irritates me more than to see the baseball teams and others just standing outside the doors of a store with their coffee can coin collectors. i won't donate to that. bake some cookies, wash my car - do something!!! that is what is wrong with us today. i don't begrudge anyone that truly needs help whether it be food, clothing etc but to just come right out and beg for money by children is setting a terrible example. they grow up thinking if they want something they don't have to do anything to get it - just keep asking and eventually someone will give it to them!

I paid $3.50 in Southwest Virginia

I don't like it when they sell outside a store I have to go in. I can't afford to pay for them or put them on my hips.

When we bought ours, it was sad.

As we entered the local Lowes, a boy scout was standing by the door and asked us if we would be interested in buying a "boy scout coupon book". My DH says "I'll look when we come out". (Well, he's staged at the entrance...)

As we exit the local Lowes, the Girl Scouts are at the exit asking if we wanted to buy some Girl Scout cookies. So, although my DH has to order some from a mom at work, (He can't resist little girls) so, we purchase our three favorites.

I say "Oh Dad, what about the Boy Scout?" He says, no I don't want a coupon book. Oh boy... That is so not cool. So we walk over there and poor Scout can't sell him on this coupon book because it just isn't appealing to him. He says "No thanks" and off he goes. Well, that's killing me - DH was a Boy Scout and we have raised two sons - no daughters unfortunately. Lecture time!
He hands me $10 and of course, we now have a coupon book that will get my $10 back but I thought those poor guys - who can compete with those cookies. C'Mon Boy Scout leaders there is so much more you can come up with than a coupon book.

Why do boys have to work so much harder... or is this in preparation for the rejections to come? And why on earth send them out on the same exact week-end or month?

BTW $3.50 here in Houston

Mine were $3.50 a box.

$3.50 in Michigan. Love those G. S. cookies.

How much money does really go to the Girl Scouts?Never buy cookies.

The last couple of times that I bought Girl Scout cookies I was very disappointed in the quality, I also learned the the local club gets a very small percentage of the sales. Now I just write a check to the local club. That way they can keep all of it.

Girl Scout cookies just went up to $4 a box this year. There are only 2 companies that are licensed to make girl scout cookies and except for the traditional 5 cookies type each council can also pick 1-2 additional types. Out of the purchase price the troop gets 65 cents and $1 for the council.The rest goes to pay for the cookies and rewards and advertising.If you want to just support the troop, you can give a donation (write a check). That way the full amount will go to the troop and not to the bakers.

I don't know what they cost here, I do not buy them. The choices in this area are either chocolate, chocolate icing, or have nuts. Highly allergic to both.

$3.50 Upstate NY

Richmond, VA $3.75 per box. They were 3.50 last year. Did not know prices were different elsewhere either. Interesting.