Selling Girl Scout Cookies

[PTC DAWG]

1 hour ago, DCGuy64 said:

True, but cruise ships often do allow vendors to sell things on board (think gift shops, duty free, jewelry, etc.)

These folks pay dearly for that…

[UKstages]

1 minute ago, KSSS2013 said:

I remember Easy Bakes just using a light bulb....lights are allowed.

 

sure, bring a light bulb onboard. knock yourself out.

 

put it in an easy bake oven and its use is prohibited.

[G-DawgMN]

Just now, UKstages said:

 

sure, bring a light bulb onboard. knock yourself out.

 

put it in an easy bake oven and its use is prohibited.

 

  Do you know this from personal experience? 

 

   Also my response was totally tongue in cheek...little humor is good around here.

 

 

[zqvol]

21 minutes ago, UKstages said:

 

it is, actually... #22.

 

"Items brought on board the vessel and not supplied by the company containing any kind of heating element..."

 

No heating element in an easy bake oven, just a light bulb

[david_sobe]

30 minutes ago, KSSS2013 said:

 

 It's not on the prohibited list....yet.

If you can smuggle a lobster tail you could dine in your cabin and heat your tail while baking cookies!  I can see NCL having a naughty room for all the easy bake ovens smuggled on board.  As they say, desperate times call for desperate measures 😁

Edited March 6 by david_sobe

[BirdTravels]

1 hour ago, DCGuy64 said:

True, but cruise ships often do allow vendors to sell things on board (think gift shops, duty free, jewelry, etc.)

Yeah,,, but the vendor that bids the most to rent the shop space onboard and commits to the biggest cut of the sales that get to sell onboard. I don't know that there is enough margin on the cookies to rent a 4'x4' card table have promise a cut on each box of thin mints sold. 

[thesnoopster2]

20 minutes ago, BirdTravels said:

Yeah,,, but the vendor that bids the most to rent the shop space onboard and commits to the biggest cut of the sales that get to sell onboard. I don't know that there is enough margin on the cookies to rent a 4'x4' card table have promise a cut on each box of thin mints sold. 

 

I wonder if I could get away with going to my Roll Call for this ship and arrange people to reserve cookies and then distribute that way....

[UKstages]

be careful what you wish for.

 

if NCL authorized the sale of girl scout cookies, you had better be prepared for thinner mints, chocolate chip cookies with just one chip and an upcharge for s'mores, although, for you convenience, they'll be happy to fulfill your order with s'much less.

 

 

[EngrJones]

3 hours ago, Two Wheels Only said:

 

Only if the Girl Scout is 15 years-old and has her own stateroom. 

Why not just sell them out of her room?  Pass the word, "knock, pause, knock, knock" on room 4823 between the hours of 10 and midnight.  Don't forget to add the 20% gratuity.

[baflagg]

I've been a Girl Scout leader for 13 years, no way in the world I can even imagine hauling cases of cookies on a cruise ship.   Cookie season is a crazy time of of year, enjoy your vacation and forget about cookies for a week. 

[thesnoopster2]

21 minutes ago, baflagg said:

I've been a Girl Scout leader for 13 years, no way in the world I can even imagine hauling cases of cookies on a cruise ship.   Cookie season is a crazy time of of year, enjoy your vacation and forget about cookies for a week. 

 

Main reason this is even a thought.....we are trying to bring the gf's daughter.  We don't have custody of her, the gma does and one of the excuses she is giving to not let her go is 'it is cookie sales time' No way would we be bringing ton of cookies, maybe 2 suitcases worth at most.  This way she is still selling cookies.  Also, the other thought is whatever room they take up on the flight down, would be emptied for various tshirts, towels, ect we would by for the trip home...if that makes sense.

 

From the initial responses, sound like I can't set up a table and I understand why.  i might set up a thing in my roll call and do some pre-sales there and bring those though....

[graphicguy]

35 minutes ago, baflagg said:

I've been a Girl Scout leader for 13 years, no way in the world I can even imagine hauling cases of cookies on a cruise ship.   Cookie season is a crazy time of of year, enjoy your vacation and forget about cookies for a week. 

Thank you!  You’ve said what most of us thought!  

 

BTW....will probably get in trouble for stating this, but your cookie business went from revered support of a great organization to some sort of marketing juggernaught that  employs free labor of girls and their parents.  I am inundated nearly every time I go to a grocery store, to church, neighbors, or in my burg's public areas!

 

Last thing I'd want is to be on a cruise and to get another marketing effort for Girl Scout Cookies!

Edited March 7 by graphicguy

[Seas2mountains]

Is this the one of same granddaughters who you want to eat off the kids menu when at specialty dining? So she has to meet a cookie sales quota on the cruise AND eat off the kids menu? 
 

 

[LongIsland-Cruiser]

I really wonder about you all sometimes.  

[cincicruisers]

5 hours ago, thesnoopster2 said:

I'm going on the Encore in the middle of girl scout cookie season.  Do you think NCL would let us set up a table for a couple days and sell cookies for an hour?  talk about a captive audience.  Maybe outside to the casino area?  🙂

Really?  

[fastpitchdad]

6 hours ago, thesnoopster2 said:

I'm going on the Encore in the middle of girl scout cookie season.  Do you think NCL would let us set up a table for a couple days and sell cookies for an hour?  talk about a captive audience.  Maybe outside to the casino area?  🙂

 

My wife was the cookie unit manager once and cookie cupboard a few times so I admire you ambition. When I was at a mid sized tech company (when we still would go into the office every day) I asked HR about my girls setting up in the atrium/Cafe during lunch. The head of HR said it wasn't allowed per policy but if they wanted to setup and deliver cookies already ordered and maybe bring some extras just in case *wink wink* then that would be OK (then she ordered 5 boxes of Samoas). 

My suggestion is to join the CC roll call and the other place with specific cruise groups and see if anyone wants cookies delivered to the cruise. 

Edited March 7 by fastpitchdad

[thesnoopster2]

43 minutes ago, fastpitchdad said:

 

My wife was the cookie unit manager once and cookie cupboard a few times so I admire you ambition. When I was at a mid sized tech company (when we still would go into the office every day) I asked HR about my girls setting up in the atrium/Cafe during lunch. The head of HR said it wasn't allowed per policy but if they wanted to setup and deliver cookies already ordered and maybe bring some extras just in case *wink wink* then that would be OK (then she ordered 5 boxes of Samoas). 

My suggestion is to join the CC roll call and the other place with specific cruise groups and see if anyone wants cookies delivered to the cruise. 

 

That is pretty much the idea i'm at...not sure if worth it...

 

on the flip side...my brother lives in your town.  that's just funny

[fastpitchdad]

53 minutes ago, thesnoopster2 said:

 

on the flip side...my brother lives in your town.  that's just funny

 

That is funny, maybe he bought cookies from one of my girls. Although it would have been a few years ago, both have since graduated from high school (we lived on the Skyline side, he would know what that means 🙂 ). 

[EngrJones]

So, this thread is actually real?  Wow.  Had me fooled.  I need to drink less.

[expectthebest]

Last year on the breakaway the neighbors in the stateroom to our left and ourselves were invited to our neighbor on the right for drinks on their balcony.
 

So after about 2 hours of nice talk and getting to know our new friends the wife says oh since you are all here I have a surprise for all of you. She goes in the closet and comes back with a small trunk and opens it on their small end table.. my wife and I were perplexed..turns out that the woman packed an entire sales pack of Cutco knives..

 

she insisted she demonstrate how the worlds greatest knife set to never be sold in an actual store will change your life. My wife picked out the 13 piece set she had with the natural wood block and kitchen scissors to boot!!
 

Best $2,300.00 we ever spent!! We still keep in touch with her and we laugh that she invited us to her balcony but all 3 couples were actually in inside cabins !!! Fun times for all of us. 

[expectthebest]

7 hours ago, Turtles06 said:

Hopefully not. It would be a bad precedent. I love Girl Scout cookies, but would hate to see the ships turned into a marketplace for guests hawking their wares. 

We can leave that to the fresh air markets that surround the ship and you are forced to walk through once you are off the ship lol

[expectthebest]

3 hours ago, thesnoopster2 said:

 

Main reason this is even a thought.....we are trying to bring the gf's daughter.  We don't have custody of her, the gma does and one of the excuses she is giving to not let her go is 'it is cookie sales time' No way would we be bringing ton of cookies, maybe 2 suitcases worth at most.  This way she is still selling cookies.  Also, the other thought is whatever room they take up on the flight down, would be emptied for various tshirts, towels, ect we would by for the trip home...if that makes sense.

 

From the initial responses, sound like I can't set up a table and I understand why.  i might set up a thing in my roll call and do some pre-sales there and bring those though....

Snoop.. please please do an update on here and let us all know how the adventure went. I’m being serious.. I want to hear all about the roll all set up and the cookie delivery shenanigans. Please share the experience as it u folds..

[Seas2mountains]

9 hours ago, EngrJones said:

So, this thread is actually real?  Wow.  Had me fooled.  I need to drink less.

I also thought it was a joke about the cookies being gone. Still can’t believe it was and is a real thought. 🤷‍♀️

[UKstages]

back in the day, you’d order cookies from a girl scout or one of her parents, and then - two or three weeks later - they would deliver the cookies to your home or to your workplace. are we saying that’s no longer the case? that girl scouts are now expected to commit in advance to a certain number of boxes which they sell and hand over immediately at the point of sale? 
 

*mind blown*

 

what a logistical nightmare!

 

and how many boxes are parents routinely left to eat? (metaphorically speaking)

 

as for attempting to sell on your roll call… sure, you could try that, but a heck of a lot of people might resent the hell out of that. first off, if it’s cookie season, there are probably other people on the roll call with cookie selling kids, just as on a ship with 3,000 people there will likely be other people who are selling cookies (back home). second, assuming you’re talking about a CC roll call, these folks are anonymous and there is no way to message them. third, the roll call is no place to try to sell folks who are complaining about being nickeled and dimed. fourth, the NCL rule about no solicitation could likely be construed to apply to goods delivered while onboard, even if the solicitation occurred elsewhere… and, as a bonus, a good third or more of the people won’t even show up for the meet and greet… why would you expect these folks to keep their cookie commitment? how are you going to find them to collect and distribute?

 

for all these reasons, and more, i suggest you toss your cookie(s) selling idea.

[graphicguy]

Shocked they let "Cutco knife" lady on board with a cache of knives.  That should have set off alarms left and right as the luggage passed through security.

 

Girl Scout cookies....help me understand.  Why is it so imperative for the individual Girl Scouts to sell so many cookies?  

 

I didn't mind it when my neighbors girls would come to the door to take an order from me.  But, at the Mall?  At my church?  At restaurant entrances.  At Walmart entrances?  At Community Center entrances?  At public parks?

 

I just think it's bordering on the same nuisance type of selling as Kirby Vacuum sales.

 

Hate to sound like the guy who yells "get off my lawn", but Girl Scout cookie sales have reached the point I used to order $100 worth.  Now, I buy none because they've been such a pain.

 

Wish the Girl Scouts the best, but why or why would someone on a cruise want to sell them?  Will the Girl Scouts somehow be punitive if you don't sell their cookies?