Do you believe that some owners mistreat their dolls?

Yukia- Oh my gosh what happend to that one and only Black Luke is absolutely horrible! So glad your friend managed to get him out of mistreatment and is taking care of him! May I ask if your friend will post him here in the future? I'm a fan of all the limited black DoD collection dolls and would love to see owner photos of THE Black Luke (who is now battled scarred and tougher than before! ), it would be totally awsume!

 

I admit that I am a little Abusive with my boy sometimes like when his wigs fly off his head and Im struggling to put them back on. Beyond that I think Id spazz out if I saw him being abused.

 

I've told her.

She's rather amused but doesn't have the time to actually take photos of him in good lighting. She doesn't have an account here too... But she said, 'I'll see how first...'. Due to her work load and school load... I pity her sometimes...

Oh...would it be considered abuse if I keep cleaning off Apollo's face-ups or using a needle and poking/scratching away the hard to clean off places of his face-up...? If it is...then ya...I'm abusing him... >w<

But I've had people 'abusing' him when they don't even own him. Without me noticing, they carry him up from his perch by the neck. Grabbing him up so fast that his legs kicked another doll. Another girl coddled him so hard that his head got snapped to the side and his hands rubbed against each other that the MSC coating chipped and I had to re-do the blushing on his hands...even the manicure...

I think I yelled at everyone who manhandled him that day and allowed no one to touch him anymore. Everyone was so rough with him but so gentle with their own dolls. Either because he's the only 1/3 there or that I'm a new-comer, infiltrating their base or something....

 

Yeah their perogative..I would rather care for something i spent so much for..=)

 

maybe its becuase i still have my childish view of the world, but i feel that when some one does something ... to intentionally hurt a doll its abuse.. well i wouldn't say abuse but ... rather they bought the doll and have there rights or not, if i made a doll and sold it to someone then id expect them to take care of it and to love it... and it wouldn't hurt to think they have some feeling. and i dont consider things like playing rough and dropping it once or twice abuse. i mean like ... feeding it to a dog or throwing it across a room. (hopefully you wouldn't do that)

 

I admit I'm guilty of the whole "placing-my-dolls-in-precarious-places" thing. Sometimes I'll leave him standing up on the kitchen table because I forget I'm not the only one living in my house and that he could easily be knocked over.

With other people abusing their dolls, I could care less. Frankly, it's their own money they're messing with and they have a right to do whatever they want.
If they're mistreating a limited, however...

 

Call me crazy, infact call me whatever the hell you like cause my dollies are my precious babies!

My dolls are indefinately my family, and i DO believe they feel things. It's what i want to believe and will believe. I cringe when i see broken dolls and people purposely damaging their dolls (i mean purposely snapping fingers off etc)

I hate it even more when someone ELSE damages a doll that isn't theirs. *looks pointedly at a certain person on youtube who flung their friends doll around.*

i'll say now i DO take my dollies outside and i DO dress them everyday, i DO speak to them and think they have personalities, and that IS just my way but christ... people WHY would you break them just because you can!?

 

It is really hard for me to understand or believe people abuse/mistreat their dolls (or animals/people) I can't wrap my mind around it. I know a large percentage of collecters refer to their dolls as their children, maybe it's the same thinking? I dunno, I just can't imagine it.

Why would you LET someone abuse your doll? I can see it being done on accident (Like a small child getting a hold of your doll, or an animal) but to let someone just toss it around? I dunno.

I've decided I just don't understand people.

 

people have different way to treat their dolls.Some one may take good care of them,other one may treat them as normal toy
In a word I don't think someone abuse(may I should user another more properly word) her doll except she hurt it.[ such as use the knife(not for mod) or knock it or beat it to vent one's anger ... etc.

 

Why would someone pay over $400 just to abuse it? It's just plain stupid if you think about it, I mean really that's what punching bag would be for but a doll? I would understand a blow doll but a resin doll, sheesh thats harsh

 

When I bought my bjds I have an understanding with them. I would take proper care of them, handle them with care and they in turn would inspire me.

 

Oh i assure you, the owner of the doll had no idea this person was doing it.

Which is just.... URGH.

 

I don't think anyone would intentionally go out and damage something they paid a huge chunk of money for - they might just be a rought or clumsy person, or might like a sunny room and not know they are yellowing their doll by letting it sit in the sun and look pretty... that, or if they are rough with it and break it, they probably just go "Oops! Broke a hand - oh well, that's what superglue is for!" After all, I collected stuffed animals and plushies when I was younger (I still do now to a lesser extent), and I didn't care about what their value would be later - I just wanted to play! If they got damaged, then oh well, they're still mine and I love them and it's nothing me or my mom couldn't fix... Some people probably think of their dolls in that way, even if they should be more careful with something that expensive (especially if it's limited - oh god I feel so bad for that poor Black Luke - and I love his ears so much too ;__; ).

 

I am very careful with my doll because she was expensive and I value her. I don't feel like BJDs are the kind of dolls you can throw around and draw on (I don't mean modding, I mean like random doodling on it with magic marker like a little kid woud do). I did those things with Barbies when I was little (I even painted one Barbie all over with white-out) but my BJD is a high-quality, luxury item so I want to take care of it, y'know? I guess it's okay for a doll ownwer to "abuse"their dolls, as dolls are mere things, but I wouldn't hold such an owner in high regard.

 

yes, people mistreat dolls, but i think not at least dressing them ina new outfit once a year is abuse too.

 

letting chuck Norris see them and touch them is abuse too.(jk)

 

Well....people ARE intitled (with only a few small exceptions) to do whatever they want with their property. That said why anyone would treat a prized or expensive item with disregard is beyond me. I am remindede of a time when a friend of a friend won a resin statue he'd wanted for years on E-bay and when he got it was so careful with it and put it on the mantle where it could be seen and enjoyed yet safe from most accidents. Flash forward a month later and the statue is broken in parks on the floor and getting kicked around and stubled on.

*sigh* I just don't get some people

 

Well honestly when I saw this thread I thought of the horrible face-ups I had seen. You now the crayola marker type that makes me want to scream 'Oh poor resin soul!'.

However after reading a few posts, some people have a very good point: Why would someone mistreat something that costs so much to get in the first place? Maybe the horrible face-ups are a clumsy attempt at achieving what they really wanted.

I think the only people who would intentionally mistreat their dolls are people who 1. Don't know their true value 2. Spoiled brats. Anyone in their right mind would at least try to preserve the beauty of the resin people!

 

While it's painful to watch someone disrespect something you yourself have put effort in to getting it is - in the end, their item. There are some times where people can be asked not to wear/own something if they're disrespectful to it - for example belts in martial arts (if you are not respectful of the rank and belt you've earnt you can have it pulled from you in some styles), but dolls thankfully isn't one of them.

Personally I think 'abusing' your own possessions is sort of it's own punishment - people are free to waste THEIR money if they like...just so long as they do not whinge to me about how their doll broke when they tossed it across the room.

 

Though after a considered thought - is it a tad disrespectful to the face-up artist (assuming it was done by someone other than the abuser) if you treat some of their art like that? I'm a professional artist myself and I'd hate to go to one of my exhibitions and see someone manhandling something I spent days carving.