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Girl Scout sets record cookie sales with 17,323 boxes sold

dallasnews.com — DEARBORN, Mich. – Jennifer Sharpe knows how to sell Girl Scout cookies. She sold them to friends. She sold them to strangers. She even convinced her orthodontist to buy the popular sweet treats. And now, with 17,323 boxes sold under her name, the 15-year-old Dearborn girl is believed to have sold more cookies in a single season than anyone in the

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  • chonuts, on 05/15/2008, -1/+129FTA: "I know how to get people to buy more. If they buy two boxes and they hand me a ten, I'd be like, 'For 50 cents more, you can get three,' because three boxes are $10.50."

    Of course it's easy when you're selling legal crack. WHERE ARE MY GOD DAMN THIN MINTS?!?!?a90f8a0sdfao;3jr289041234dcg
    • SpeshulEd, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5715 year old girls with high pressure sales tactics make me cry.
    • DonSlice, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5I'm like that, but I need my Samoas!
    • nreynolds, on 05/15/2008, -1/+30That sucks, I can buy girl scout cookies from the supermarket for like $2 a box. One time I walked right by a little 8 year old who asked me to buy a box and I told her that if she can match the price of Ralph's, I'd gladly buy a box. She silently stared at me until I panicked and told her I had no cash. I think her mom was mad at me, but ***** that. Capitalism, little girl, do you speak it?
      • SmartedPanda, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7...wow dude....Harsh much?

        Can I worship you?
      • hobbers, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7It's actually pretty pathetic. The official Girl Scout Cookies (tm) sell for $3.50 a box usually. I think the girls see $0.50 of that. It's the greatest marketing scheme ever. Get little innocent girls to push your cookie product at inflated prices and people will feel good about it because they're "contributing to the girl scouts". A resourceful girl scout could probably procure the cookies for $1.50 a box in wholesale (although without the Girl Scout Cookies (tm) label). Then sell them at $3 a box, under cutting the competition from other troops, and tripling her profit at the same time.
    • AudioPhil3, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5"Area troop members hawked their tasty wares from December until March 16, instead of March 9. The extra time was added because the council hadn't met its sales goal..."

      >> AND:

      "Some have accused her of cheating because her mother, Pam, sold cookies when Jennifer was at school. But Coughlin said there are no rules against that. "

      I for one, demand a recount.

      Reminds me of another rule bending, deadline extending female, who is also selling a box of empty promises. ;)
    • Gizza, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Wow? Are people really dumb enough to fall for that? Sure it's only 50c more.. BEFORE I get my change from $10 for the 2 boxes I am buying.
    • Archer007, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Legal crack has never tasted better.
  • louiebaur, on 05/15/2008, -4/+23Thats allot of damn cookies
  • nahsrocketeer75, on 05/15/2008, -1/+31Glad she doesn't live in my neighborhood.
    • utore, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10She's only a city or two away from me and I didn't get any mfing cookies. wtf?
    • AzureRise, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I have laser sight airsoft! She better stay away! Then again my girlfriend would probably make me buy 2 boxes....
    • linagee, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4"When I was in third grade, the top seller was 10,176. ... I turned to my mother and said, 'That's going to be me one day,'" -- Doesn't that sound like the spoiled purple turning girl in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory? Veronica I think her name was.
      • spwpi10, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1No it sounds like someone who sets goals and works to achieve them.
    • laughandsing, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Why?? Girl Scout cookies rock!
  • snobrder218, on 05/15/2008, -14/+12Acording to http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_COOKIE_ ...

    "Sharpe sold cookies every day on a street corner with help from her mother and troop leader, Pam Sharpe."

    Sure...since when do people sell "cookies" on a Street Corner? *nudge nugde* No wonder she sold so many.
    • ElBeh, on 05/15/2008, -4/+13Creep.
      • sexybobo, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8you mean the little girl for whoring out her mom and the troop leader just to sell more boxes of candy. 50 boxes for a suck 100 boxes gets you all the way and 250 boxes gets you both women.
    • funkymoose, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6I actually thought that was a reference to selling drugs. Maybe I haven't been on digg long enough.
      • borninda818, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Saddly, the fine folks at 4chan are finding new places to intoxicate while they wait for their ban to expire.
      • linagee, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Food, the ultimate drug. (Is it a foreign substance?)
    • AzureRise, on 05/15/2008, -2/+1You're a ***** idiot. Where's pedo bear or Chris Hanson when you need them. Chris. Hey, Chris. I need yo- oh God! Chris, what are you doing to pedo bear!?
    • snobrder218, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1I was referencing Drugs you ***** pervs. "No wonder she sold so many" meaning people can't get enough of them because they're addicted. Good god, idiots.
  • SeaweedWater, on 05/15/2008, -7/+45What a bitch.
    • mearom, on 05/15/2008, -3/+2Its not who you know its who you blow
  • xcp84, on 05/15/2008, -1/+30I am starving for thin mints now
    • dsgamer, on 05/15/2008, -15/+3digg me down, but I really never liked thin mints
    • samw1ns, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2the peanut butter ones are the best

      :D
  • ElBeh, on 05/15/2008, -12/+7OGC
  • Celeron, on 05/15/2008, -0/+55She's guaranteed a sales job in life.
    • Rizmaster, on 05/15/2008, -0/+19That's not exactly aiming high (says the computer salesman)
      • MrTito, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10Thanks for making me feel bad for digging you up, guy.
      • EvilFerret, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Retail sales jobs (computers) are quiet a bit different than an actual career in sales.
  • Alix7, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5Probablly running some sort of organization with the Armenians

    Get Michael Chiklis
  • mark076h, on 05/15/2008, -2/+23I am going to start the argument by saying Samoas are the best
    • legoalert33, on 05/15/2008, -4/+14OBJECTION! thin mints are the best.
    • Enasni1212, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6Wrong. Thin Mints or nothing. I like other girl scout cookies, but I wouldn't spend money on them when I can just buy more Thin Mints.
    • TeagueSterling, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7I agree with you mark076h. Samoas FTW.
    • MrTito, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2To quote John McLaughlin: "Wrong!"
      /i am old
    • RxDaniel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I just looked at the wiki for girl scout cookies, and WTF girl scouts?!!? The only kind they have ever tried to sell me are thin mints and the peanut butter sandwich ones. Where are my chocolate covered peanut butter cookies, and Samoas? ***** your thin mints girl scouts.
    • Soave, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Samoas and Tagalongs ftmfw.
    • gryphon50, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2you are right, Samoas are the best. But we're supposed to call them Caramel Delites now, more pc I guess.
      • brjndr, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1I told my nieces I'd buy Samoas fro them, but when they told me about this Caramel Delites garbage I said forget it. They put white labels over the Caramel Delites logo on the box and colored in Samoas, so I bought 4 boxes.
      • Soave, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Wtf, really? I refuse to call them that.
    • eatbeefjerky, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Tagalongs... but now they call them Peanut Butter Patties. I hate how there are only 15 in a box. God how I hate that.
  • hypodan, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6You fools! She is trying to dominate the world with her mind controlling cookies!
    • AzureRise, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1No wonder I got that weird "Stepford wives" feeling when I drove through that city.
  • CynicSight, on 05/15/2008, -0/+17I read the article but I can't help but think that her mom might've had something to do with her success.
    • funkymoose, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6"Some have accused her of cheating because her mother, Pam, sold cookies when Jennifer was at school. But Coughlin said there are no rules against that."
      • CynicSight, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Haha. Apparently, I must've missed that part. Well there ya go.
  • redxninja, on 05/15/2008, -0/+37Ok so who is the fat ass that bought all these.
  • sockpuppets, on 05/15/2008, -2/+7C is for cookie!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BovQyphS8kA
    • RxDaniel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3My girlfriend thinks its weird that I know obscure sesame street references, and after having several people look at me like I'm crazy while I watched this I think she might be right.
  • verevi, on 05/15/2008, -5/+4Garbage with hydrogenated oils. Sure, they have fewer, but they still use that garbage.
  • s0m31john, on 05/15/2008, -9/+6/r/ing ASCII Pedobear
    • pyrotix, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Why don't you have a seat over there?
  • funkymoose, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1She must have been friggin adorable when she was a kid.
  • modelchick8806, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3Mmmhhhm shortbread.
  • lnappropriate, on 05/15/2008, -7/+5Maybe shes really hot so thats y ppl buy the cookies

    Where r pics
    • cl2yp71c, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2pedobear says 'Hi'
    • greystill, on 05/15/2008, -2/+1Chris Hansen says, " Why don't you have a seat over there..."
    • lik3n, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Did anyone think that this person may be 15 as well?
    • jitterbits, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1I actually wondered that myself...
      So I, ahem, looked her up on myspace. She's average.

      I gotta say that you have a very well chosen name, btw.
  • djcreamy, on 05/15/2008, -7/+3I bought cookies from her and I promise you I didn't get what I paid for. This sweet young loli flaunted her Girl Scout's vest and ribbons in my face, I couldn't resist. I invited her in for treats, but I ended buying boxes of them. TRAP!
    • inspecality, on 05/15/2008, -4/+2This isn't /b/, and you sound like a newfag anyway.
      • Archer007, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Must...stop...4chan...from...taking...over...internets....
        • DrDabbles, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Must...talk...like...G....I....Joe!
  • highlyhigh, on 05/15/2008, -2/+0mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    theres our new woman president. watch out for her now. she's got a bright future. them cookies are monopoly blocks.
  • shadoturtl, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6how much money is that towards keeping her non heterosexual friends out of her publicly funded organization?

    ..yeah kind of trollish and not the kids fault

    ..but really...how much
    • flip2trip, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Publicly funded? What are you talking about?
    • Envark, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I think you might be confusing Girl Scouts with Boy Scouts.
      As far as I can remember, the Girl Scouts did not take an anti-homosexual stance.
    • samw1ns, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4im in boyscouts (digg me down)
      its ridiculous that gay/lesbians arent allowed.
      • spwpi10, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Honestly, I don't give two *****. It's a private organization so the people that run it can do whatever they want regardless of if I agree with them or not. If you don't like it you can leave. I don't give two ***** if someone is gay or straight but I don't own the boy scounts so it isn't my call. Meh, I don't even care about the topic i'm just at work and bored.
  • h4mx0r, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2thin mints are crack, but Samoas is super crack.
  • Moegopher, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1This girl sure has a future.
  • cheezintern, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9That's a lot of palm oil.....
    • jitterbits, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1And you know about oil on your palms, eh, intern?
      • cheezintern, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1They use palm oil that's harvested from plantations cut out of rain forest.
  • stevealford, on 05/15/2008, -3/+9I think it's just swell that the nation's largest organization for young girls starts training them to be manipulative whores so early in life.
  • RespectableGuy, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9Girl scouts never come to my house to try to sell me cookies... It may be because pedobear lives next door...
  • onionbagel724, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8i think cute girl scouts are exploited as an effective form of free labor. some dude got a lot of money just from this one girl.
    • H0tKarl, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2I've always thought this was a scam too. I wish I could guilt people into buying my overpriced product and not have to pay my staff.
    • eatbeefjerky, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1It really is. Those cookies are $3.50 a box and the troop gets 50c of that. Epic scam, seriously.
  • thespudmall, on 05/15/2008, -6/+3Buy 5 boxes and get a small baggie of weed!
  • FeloniusMonkey, on 05/15/2008, -3/+22OM NOM NOM
  • twarner, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3Don't eat them! They blow up!
    • krnldmp, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3No they dont, but they will kill you. May as well chill out with a tub of Crisco and a bag of sugar. Same effect, cheaper.
      • chrisbarr, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Yeah they aren't health food, but they aren't quite that bad. It's a cookie, chill out.
    • Archer007, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1"If there are no survivors, then where do the stories come from?"
  • Nickdotnet, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4they taste like ***** this year....
  • woofers07, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3That's a lot of saturated fat... seriously that's why those things are so damn good, take a look at the nutritional values sometime.
  • marx2k, on 05/15/2008, -2/+3Ok.. here's a question... sometimes you get parents who want to sell these cookies for their kids at the workplace. Can this be considered soliciting?
    • flip2trip, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3It's not considered soliciting it is soliciting, asking people to buy something is soliciting.
      • marx2k, on 05/15/2008, -0/+0So next question is, would I be justified in bitching to HR that these people are soliciting in the workplace?
        Not that I would, but I don't get why it's ok if it's "for the children" but not if I want to raise a few bucks for myself
  • ChantryChantry, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2Buried for sheer douchebaggery
  • jmpeagle, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2so she stuffed the cookies with nicotine and kept people coming back for more?
  • Moegopher, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3This never would have happened had Oingo Boingo lived in her neighborhood.
    • thespudmall, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I loooove litle girls.................
  • ledguitar, on 05/15/2008, -5/+2OMNOMNOMNOM
  • SEGA4life, on 05/15/2008, -0/+37If group of Girl Scouts and their Parents, outside a supermarket, ask if you want to buy some cookies..

    Don't say:
    "Are they made with real girl scouts?"

    got one laugh from a parent, and half dozen crying girl scouts...

    I guess they took it the wrong way
    • Gizza, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3so... were they?
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+1Forget cookies made from children. Give me a drink made from the tears of children and I will buy it. Other peoples' misery makes me stronger because I'm an *****!
  • willaggs, on 05/15/2008, -2/+3can i get an om nom?
  • cramming, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Jennifer Sharpe = changing the way the game is played. I bet crime syndicates will form because of this. I am too lazy to write a satirical article on this; The Onion, please do it for me.

  • shyboy2008, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2well the population is now 300 million people and there is so many fat people, the record was destined to be broken one day
  • johndajap56, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2she probably laced them with cocaine to have em keep coming back. Actually girl scout cookies are addictive enough. Damn that's a lot of cookies
  • StanleyKoolPrik, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Duh. There's obviously cocaine in those cookies.
  • xcp84, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Unbelievable. I could barely eat 2 boxes.
    • Envark, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3Girls scouts. Boxes. Eat. Dammit. I know there's a joke in there...
  • TecK415, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Hax!!!
  • username484767, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6she hot?
  • Envark, on 05/15/2008, -1/+22Wow, her jaw must have been sore as hell after convincing that many guys to buy her cookies.
  • grason1129, on 05/15/2008, -11/+4Digg me up!
    Excelseor!
  • AudioPhil3, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1"Area troop members hawked their tasty wares from December until March 16, instead of March 9. The extra time was added because the council hadn't met its sales goal..."

    >> AND:

    "Some have accused her of cheating because her mother, Pam, sold cookies when Jennifer was at school. But Coughlin said there are no rules against that. "

    I for one, demand a recount.

    Reminds me of another rule bending, deadline extending female, who is also selling a box of empty promises. ;)
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