If someone broke your doll?

Make em pay!
But yea I believe i see a reoccurring pattern among other doll owners where if they are the ones who damaged someone else's doll we would offer to repair/pay for it. I think it comes from actually appreciating bjds to begin with.

 

I agree with the antique store analogy. If thr break it, the assume responsibility to pay for the damage, That's such a scary thought though @.@ They are rather difficult to replace.

 

That's why i never ask to hold someone's doll D: I'd feel super super guilty if something terrible happens, and of course i'd pay for the damage.

I have a 3-year-old cousin who happens to be on my house a lot of time AND oftens play/take/damage my things... my doll live in the closet because of that, but if someday i come home and find out my doll is damage...boy there will be roasted children for dinner. (no srsly, i'd be very angry...)

 

I'd be angry then sad if someone broke one of my dolls. Heck, I'd feel that way if I did it myself. And yes, I would expect them to pay for the damage just as I would feel responsible if I damaged someone else's doll. Accidents happen but these dolls are just too expensive to let the damage go unpaid.

 

I think the same as everyone here.

We are all responsible for our actions so if I just damaged anything I MUST fix it ... in this case, pay for the broken part; obviously, I'd demand the one who dares breaking my doll to do it that way too ¬¬ ...

 

As many have posted before me, if I broke someone's doll I would offer to pay for the damaged part(s). I would expect and hope someone would do the same for me.

 

I do not let strangers touch or photograph my dolls at all. I took one of my dolls out on a Ghost Walk last weekend and a lady asked if she could photograph my doll. I simply told her that I do not let people photograph my dolls. I think she was a bit mad that I said no. I think that the bjds are just to expense to let everyone handle them.

 

OMG I will KILL ! Lol, or at leat make them pay for the damage, like a new hand or whatever they have broken.

 

I've always been kind of "Oh, I can fix that!" about stuff. I am the biggest hazard in my dolls' vicinity, regardless of where I am. A little accidental damage? Meh, I'll go see one of my friends who deals with this business professionally. And whine about it on LJ, but beyond that: unless someone is being flamingly stupid or breaking my stuff on purpose, I wouldn't care one whit if someone had an oops. Life is made of oops.

But, those other two situations, imma let you finish but INVOICE TIME DESU.

 

If someone I didn't know was randomly handling my doll (with or without my permission) and broke her somehow. Yeah, I'd ask....maybe tell them to pay.

If it was someone I knew and was friends with...I'd hope that the reasons I was friends with them included thoughtfullness and awareness. And if they were to accidentally drop her...I'd kinda hope they would offer to put some money towards it, but if they dont/couldnt, then that'd be fine too. I wouldn't ask.

If someone did in on purpose......Well, they would pay me the price for fixing her, as well as a pair of nice doll shoes. Because I'd be mad pissed.

 

If anyone ends up damaging one of my dolls, god forbid, I hope it's someone from DoA. Almost all of you are really mature about it.

 

Although I would be upset - I'm a pretty calm person normally. So I would explain that they just broke a $??? doll and really guilt trip them.

However - I actually think that my insurance would cover it because we made sure that our contents is insured for accidental and malicious stuff even if we remove it from the house ... hmm,,, I'm going to check on that.

 

They would pay. If I have to pay for theirs if I brake them, they will pay for mine.
I like to use the guilt trips as my advantage.....

But lets just hope it never happens =P

 

A lot of people in this thread have said they'd make the offending party pay for the damage; but to be honest, if the person says no, there is absolutely no way any of us could enforce it legally. They only have to say it was an accident, and there'd be nothing you could do about it. A couple of people have said they'd call the police or pursue the case legally in court - I'm sorry, but that just shows how little you know about how legal processes work. if someone damages your doll, do you seriously think the person is going to hang around whilst you call the police? And even if they did, they just have to say "Oh, it was an accident" - and accidents aren't illegal.

Even if you manage to obtain the person's full name and address, I highly doubt any lawyer will agree to take on a court case for damages involving a doll - and your legal fees are likely to exceed the cost of any repairs, if not the doll itself. And even if it did get as far as court, the judge would take a pretty dim view of it and likely think you were being petty; they would likely point out it was your own fault for allowing the doll to be in a position liable to result in damage in the first place. You'd end up out of pocket and still have a broken doll at the end of it.

As amphetamine said earlier:

if you take your doll out in public, you are taking a calculated risk that damage may result to your doll, and it is simply unrealistic to expect or assume that anyone damaging your doll will pay for that damage. You can minimise that risk by refusing to let others touch your doll, only standing them up with a stand, etc. - but you are still taking the chance that the doll may become damaged in some way. If it's a fellow doll owner, the chances are that they'd offer to make good the damage - but you can't assume that will always be the case.

 

If someone breaks my doll I'd go ballistic but keep a cool and composed figure and say. "You broke it, pay up, EXACTLY how much it was with shipping, and oh! That's over a thousand, come on, pay up....NOW!" and that is when I fling in my angry side but then smile sweetly.

Also someone previously said what if they said it was an accident? If they had their backs turned and knocked into it, fine. But if they accidentally drop the doll, I care not. YOU are responsible, you have to be more careful with people's belonging.

 

If a stranger broke my doll and it was major damage [head, body, ect] I would definitely ask them to pay me, but if it were a friend or a fellow doll owner, I might ask them to help at least pay part of it, but I wouldn't demand anything. If it was just a finger, I wouldn't ask for money from anyone because hands come relatively cheap.

If I broke the doll I would offer to pay for it or for some of it. If I didn't have the money at the time I would pay them as soon as I could. I would feel absolutely terrible.

 

I'd cry for a few minutes..
Then I'd punch and kick them a few times.

 

I once took my old graphics tablet to a class with me, and while I was in the school library later that day (with it plugged in to the computer) this little prick that I knew (and still know, unfortunately, he never wants to leave me alone) comes up and starts irritating me while I'm trying to work. He keeps on unplugging the tablet from the usb port, replugging it, unplugging it, until I end up getting him to stop it. It didn't seem like much at the time, but...

In my next class I went to use it and realised that the computer wasn't recognising it. After a little bit of fiddling I got it working, but later, over the space of a couple of days, it just... died on me. I'd plug it into my computer and the light on it wouldn't even so much as flicker. I don't know exactly how it happened but it's probably a good guess that the little boogerhead fried the electronics in the usb cord (or something, I don't know much about electricals). I demanded that he pay the 150$ for a replacement, and he absolutely refused to, saying that it wasn't his fault and he didn't have anything to do with it. I'm not surprised, he's a liar and a cheater. I refuse to talk to him now, after a lot of other things he did to me, but if I asked, he'd still wouldn't pay.

Anyway. The moral is that not everybody appreciates another person's expensive and valuable property. A stranger who accidentally drops your doll is, unfortunately, probably not likely to pay up unless they're very kind. It's just the way that most people work, I suppose, any sign of trouble and a lot of them run.

Personally, I'd ask them to pay. I'd ask ANYONE to pay. Most of my friends have jobs, so they'd probably help cover the damage if I asked. If I accidentally damaged someone's then... ugh, that would be terrible, because I DON'T have a job and have very little money. I'd try to help pay it back until I could get money though.

 

I....would cry. ; ; I don't think I'd even be able to replace Yoru, since they didn't make very many of his sculpt I'm pretty sure they don't sell him anymore...

While I understand there's not much you can do if a freak accident happens and a doll is bumped, falls, and breaks...if someone else is handling your doll and is directly responsible for causing damage to it, why wouldn't you get compensation for it? Emotional attachments aside, he's still an expensive piece of personal property and someone else's negligence caused damage to it! I would absolutely demand that they pay for the damage.

 

I never let people touch my dolls!!!!...if they break i would be the one responsible so I would get angry with myself for a few days and walk the extra mile to fix them back to perfection.