Girl Scout cookie shortage sparks black market-like prices

Another "shortage" that's creating mass hysteria and price gouging !!

This time it's Girl Scout Cookies of all things !!

Looks like ebay and other bid/ask style marketplaces are racking up the profits !! 😎🚬

Girl Scout cookie shortage sparks black market-like prices

The Raspberry Rally flavor of Girl Scout cookies has become largely sold-out, leading to a resale market in which they sport some eye-popping prices.

As of Friday, numerous people put up boxes of the recently released cookie on the online marketplace eBay, with some sellers setting the price of a single Raspberry Rally box in the $20 range. Other listings, meanwhile, aimed to charge prices like $115 for five boxes, $100 for two or $72 for three.

The Girl Scouts of the USA announced it would be adding the Raspberry Rally flavor to the organization’s 2023 offering of cookies back in August. The chocolate-coated raspberry-flavored cookie, only for-sale online starting Feb. 27, is a "sister" of the Thin Mints cookie, according to the organization.

(ebay) Girl Scouts Cookie Cookies

A fool and his money...

a reply to: xuenchen

Damn,

I saw a bunch of girlscouts selling cookies earlier today.

I might have to grab some and sell them on ebay.

a reply to: xuenchen

Remember when Girls Scouts would go door to door to sell cookies

Not any more - too many dirt bags around

Parents take the order forms to work with them and post them in break room for people to sign up for how many cookies want

"When cookies are purchased through a third-party seller, Girl Scout troops are deprived of proceeds that fund critical programming throughout the year," the Girl Scouts of the USA spokesperson continued. "Additionally, the Girl Scouts of the USA, your local Girl Scout council, and our licensed cookie bakers cannot guarantee the freshness or integrity of cookies bought through unauthorized sites. In many instances, these cookies are expired, or the sellers are using Girl Scouts’ intellectual property without permission."

The whole idea of the cookies is to help out the kids. It's not like they have any collectible value since they spoil, so people are kind of dumb to buy them in the black/grey market. I wonder if the Girl Scouts could go after the unauthorized resellers to teach them a lesson.

People need to leave the kid's money alone.

a reply to: Blaine91555

How does one purchase their cookies without having paid the GSoA? Is there a place that sells those same cookies without having initially bought them from the GSoA?

a reply to: xuenchen


Start making those little cookies out of real Girl Scouts, problem solved! 🍖🍪😋

a reply to: xuenchen

Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

I live in the northeast and just bought some Somoas at my gas station for $5 a box.

Pretty stupid to pay more. Just wait, they’ll find you!

a reply to: xuenchen

a reply to: Blaine91555

But in order to sell them, somebody had to buy them from The Girls Scouts Org in the first place right?

That means the original money went to the original intended source at original prices ?? 😎

It's not like these are counterfeits 😮

Im sure there are other strains that are just as strong! Why does it have to be girl scout cookies?

a reply to: xuenchen

a reply to: Violater1


Hey you, I just beat you to it by a few seconds! We must think very alike!

It's a point well made though, that the girl scouts doesn't want their cookies resold again. I agree with that. It's the same as authors selling books from their own official sites only to have scalpers buy them at initial resale price and turn around selling their books for $120 bucks on Amazon for an example.

Most people would want a direct purchase, not one from some con job dirt cretins (pretending to be a girl scout) with no traceability.

originally posted by: RickyD
a reply to: Blaine91555

How does one purchase their cookies without having paid the GSoA? Is there a place that sells those same cookies without having initially bought them from the GSoA?

Apparently on eBay and the like. They buy them legitimately to hoard them and then resell them on eBay. It's in the OP's article. People who buy them there are not then going to buy them from the Girl Scouts. I'd think it impacts them if it happens too much and people foolishly believe the extra money from the overinflated price is going to the kids.

a reply to: xuenchen

I get that, but if people want to pay ridiculous prices, they need to give that money to the kids. It's not like they can't get great cookies elsewhere at any time. Do you really think people who are paying stupid high prices have not been tricked into thinking they are helping the kids?

They aren't worth the price asked the first time around. People are so blind they'll pay anything to help the childrun.

That's called human trafficking a reply to: watchitburn

It's hard to imagine a shortage of Girl Scout cookies, this past month I have seen them at various places. I even indulged in purchasing a couple of boxes of mint chocolate.

Perhaps I should savor them at a leisurely pace. 😋

Do you know each troop only receives about 25-50 cents per box?

Lots of work for those little girls and their parents. Plus, it destroys the self esteem of so many little girls. There is always one parent who has a job where people buy hundreds of boxes - makes all the others feel bad. memories.

originally posted by: Daughter2
Do you know each troupe only receives about 25-50 cents per box?

Lots of work for those little girls and their parents. Plus, it destroys the self esteem of some many little girls. There is always one parent who has a job where people buy hundreds of boxes - makes all the others feel bad.

memories.

Like maybe the program is actually a "fund raiser" system run by contractors !!! 😧