This is the first time we are doing this fundraiser and I really hope we get a lot of support! I;m surprised by the lack of supporting material from the company. Does anyone have any tools they've used to make it go easier at collection time, or to help educate the community?

Just heard from a friend of mine, who's school did Ent.Books and had to also do Sally foster gift wrap with it. They only made $8 on the books and were selling them for $30...pain in the neck for the PTO parents in getting the books, distributin and then accounting for all of them.

The worst thing was they got very little customer service from the rep, profits were horrible and there were alot of many fine print stipulations thaqt they were not aware of...overall, not happy with it.
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Good luck, we actually got rid of this fundraiser, because the company was such a pain to deal with and we did not make much money, instead we hold a rummage sale in the spring, it's a great way to make money without asking for money and for just 2 days of hard work, we brought in thousands of dollars.

We make 50 % profit on this and it is a great deal for us! We also got prizes and incentives, but we did not have to do Sally Foster!

We also made 50% profit! I was amazed at how much money we made! We have 685 students. We are in a low to middle income area. We profited approximately $3200. I was also concerned about the idea of sending such an expensive book home with the hopes of getting it back. I only agreed to the sale because we were not charged for books that were not returned. It did not take all that much effort to get students to return unsold books. We ended up being short about 60 books which I thought was a very low number. We had a handful of students sell over 5 books!
My rep was helpful and the Entertainment website had all the documents I needed to download to help work the sale.9

Entertainment Book and Sally Foster are owned by the same company. They are obviously having financial problems since they are closing their headquarters in Michigan. They are going to outsource the packing and shipping. This is usually the first sign of trouble.