Has family/friend/random person ever BROKEN your doll?

I've never had any damage come to my dolls from family or friends- the closest that's happened is a few tumbles, but that's bound to happen when you go to a busy meetup sometimes

I think the worst that's happened is that my brother, picking up my Aphan, took a tiny chip out of his hooves blushing, by letting them click together. He apologised straight away, and my Mum was down on him like a tonne of bricks for being careless with my dolls. What can I say? She loves my Aphan ^^;

 

No. Everyone I have around my boys are well informed of my boys peculiar nature and respect it. Pretty much, my boys are to be treated as a ming vase. Thankfully when people hear a money value that automatically don't want the responsibility.

 

I was going through some posts and stumbled on this one. For some reason it was like getting punched in the gut when I read the headline. Mine are not even here (in the mail) and I swear it is going to happen to me. There are so many little ones running around and I am worried I will have no support since "I'm too old for dolls".

 

Fortunately nobody has broken my dolls but a few of my cousins touched their face ups and I freaked out. I asked them nicely not to do it and they listened.

 

No, no one has broken a doll of mine yet...

 

I've had two dolls damaged. One was by myself. I dropped my Fairyland Roke several times. x_X He's quite heavy and landed on his face at least the one time. But he only had a nose scuff. But one day I was swapping faceplates and one slipped off of my dresser and his ear tip broke off. My wife glued it on but it's somewhat noticeable because he has colorful dragon ears. And I noticed recently that the paint seems to have rubbed off the tips of the other ear. I'm usually so careful with my dolls but with him I am somehow accident prone.

Then once I sent a limited edition doll's head off for a faceup and the artist cut his ear. What made me mostly upset about that was the fact that she refused to take any responsibility, to the point of coming up with the excuse that the bubble wrap I'd sent along with him must have been 'sharp.' Accidents happen and I think I'm pretty understanding, but to make up such a stupid excuse, and not even tell me anything until I asked what the heck had happened was inexcusable.

 

People don't really touch my dolls often, and if they do I don't think they'd intentionally break them. Accidents do happen, though. I'd like to think they'd have enough respect to handle my things carefully, and if something did happen, offer to pay to fix it (as my fiance did when his daughter broke one of my non-BJD but I was able to fix her instead).

 

If anyone ever deliberately broke any of my dolls, I would be highly annoyed and angry. And yes, I would expect that person to pay for repairs or replacements. I would never trust that person again around my dolls. If it was an accident, I would be upset, but it would be easier to cope with.

 

I would definitely tell the mother of that little boy what he did - especially because it was deliberately done. He would not be welcome in my home again.

 

You should tell her because if he does that to another kids toy well...Little girls can be quite scary when angry.

 

Yes, thats for sure, but big girls can be really scary...

 

Nope, not even my little niece who's not even two years old and has been allowed to pet some of my dolls on occasion (i.e. when I had one with me when visiting).

 

Several of mine have taken a tumble or three but they've never broken. I've had a few s-hook accidents where it scratches up the inside of the head, but that doesn't bother me. I just make sure that people who hold them understand that they're fragile and valuable to me. That gives them the clue to respect the doll.

Our Portland group had a meet at a public park not too long ago and a little girl who may have been 7 or 8 wanted to hold one of my dolls. I let her hold my grail because that's the one she wanted to hold. Her mom was there and they were both very respectful. They thanked me after putting the doll back. That really made me smile.

 

My boyfriend likes to play pranks on my little brother and took one of my dolls and sat it in front of him so it scared him when he woke up. My little brother gets angry about stupid things and grabbed my doll by her arm to throw her. I literally ROARED and jumped out of my chair (I hadn't even realized she wasn't sitting in her chair behind me) and thank goodness he stopped to look at me. She was fine.

Any other damage has been my fault :X Although the only damage has been a hand joint.

 

Since 'threatened' is included in this, I think this story is applicable here. It just happened today and I thought back to this thread, so...figured I'd share.

I was taking mass transit back home from a doll meet, hauling a giant box with a doll I was picking up for my roommate (inside a rolling duffel bag, the end of the box stuck out). I had my own doll tucked away in my purse. When I got to the transit station, there was a young woman sitting there who took interest in the large box I was hauling, asking what was in it. I told her the simple truth, it was an art doll that me and my roommate collect, I just got back from picking it up. She seemed a little interested, saying it sounded weird. Our group usually meets up in public places so we're used to showing and introducing the dolls, so I pulled my girl out of my purse and showed it to her.

She looked at her a little funny, commenting on how creepy it was that it 'moved', and after a few moments said "If I had that doll, I'd probably cut its head and arms and legs off, and bury them. That's what my friend did to one of her dolls." D: I didn't really know what to think or do so I just kind of smiled and nodded and very, very quickly put my girl back into my purse and excused myself to walk away and wait somewhere ELSE for the bus...

She seemed to be a bit mentally handicapped, but it was still bloody unnerving. If she HAD done anything, I don't know what I would have done...not like I could likely get information and not to mention payment from a random, nameless girl waiting for the bus. Police, sure, but how would they find her? It wasn't like I was taking her wig off and eyes out or even holding her, I took her out of her bag when she showed an interest and she was fully dressed with eyes and wig.

Maybe it wasn't directly threatening, but I thought it was an interesting (and terrifying) story to share, none the less. ^^;

 

I have not gotten my doll, but when I was telling everybody about the doll I ordered one of my friends came up to me and said "If you bring that doll around me I will poke it until its head pops off" And I kinda just shrugged at him and said "His head comes off anyway" and he was like "Still, I will."
I mean granted I annoyed him a bit because I kept petting his nekomimi ears since they were so soft and its fun to annoy him like that because he can be a very rude person sometimes Plus the whole time I was very delicate and careful it was like I was hardly touching them, I even promised him I was being careful. Most of the time I just reached just so he would freak out. But when I told him "That is not fair because I was careful with your ears." he said "I don't care, I can just assume you were not."
Like I said I feel bad now thinking about I should not have been doing that to him, but he is being very rude about it and I paid 3x as much for my doll than his ears and I never threatened to break them I was touching them, gently, and even stated so. And plus being on a headband on his head I am pretty sure he would have known if I were pushing on them hard
Nobody should deliberately break something of somebody else's just because they were upset about something that somebody else did that was completely harmless

 

I went to a meet once and someone accidentally knocked one of mine over, the inside of her headcap got a little chipped somehow, but I didn't really care too much, since it wasn't an obvious or serious thing

 

Nothing's really happened to my doll (and hopefully nothing will happen to my incoming ones), but one time my grandmother, not knowing how to pick them up properly or just not caring, picked my doll up by its head in order to inspect it. I wanted to tell her to stop but I kinda just froze until it was over. Ever since then his head's been pretty floppy (and the rest of his body kind of), but I think if I just restring him one of these days he'll be fine. At least she didn't damage him.

I'm pretty sure my dad, in a fit of anger, told me he was going to smash my doll into pieces and nail it to my bedroom wall in a plastic bag once, but he claims he doesn't remember saying that anymore and that he wouldn't because of the cost.