Wild Freeborn is an 8 year old Girl Scout that decided to use social media as a form of sales.  Rather than asking people passing by grocery stores to buy her cookies, she turned to YouTube to reach out directly to the video website’s millions of users.  Freeborn lives in North Carolina and she was expected to sell 12,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

Freeborn’s father Bryan published a YouTube video of his daughter with a pitch “Buy cookies — they’re yummy!”  The Girl Scouts actually have a rule that bans sales made through the Internet.  Wild’s father stated that all of his intentions were honorable.

When Wild’s video hit the web, she was able to sell 700 boxes at $3.50 per box. Denise Pesich, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of the USA appeared on TODAY to explain why they decided to have the video taken down.