Letting other people hold your doll?

I have let people hold my dolls in the past, mostly dolly people but the occasional outsider too. If I'm right there within catching distance I'm often ok with it WHEN THEY ASK CORRECTLY . I've had a few people just start touching my dolls without so much as a by your leave. I will even let kids hold some of them (if they're little only when they are sitting down, I explain that my dolls are like my babies, you gotta be careful and most kids accept it happily)

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Yerp, totally fine with it, at a meet it's kind of expected and I don't care long as their careful and I know the folks in my meet up group are. They're an awesome bunch of people. ^^

 

I'm OK with anyone so long as they're pretty familiar with either BJDs or me personally. I wouldn't hand my dolls to someone who knew nothing about dolls simply because I'm scared they wouldn't know how to handle one. Other than that, everything's all good so long as they ask!

 

I do let people hold my doll if they look interested. Not saying there -aren't- people out there that are careless, but so far everyone I've let hold a doll is extremely careful. They get that "Indiana Jones" to handling a fragile baby attitude. Some I'd only "met" moments earlier. I'd rather let a friend or stranger hold a doll for a minute than hand over a baby. :p

 

I will and have let people handle my dolls, as long as I can gauge that they're going to be appropriately careful and respectful with them. That's generally the case with other doll owners, and you can usually get a sense of how they'll behave by how they'll ask, for instance, "Lemme see your doll!" vs "Hey, I've been really curious about that kind of doll, would it be all right if I looked at yours?" The first would get a firm "no" from me, but the second would probably get a chance to handle the doll in question.

In fact, I was doing this at a convention just a couple of weekends ago; I took a particularly uncommon girl along to the meetup at the con, and a number of people were interested in her, so she spent a little time moving from person to person. I also had another (somewhat more common) boy with me, that was on the wishlist of one of the attendees of the meet, so he spent some time with her as well.

I think it was a bit of "what goes around comes around;" a year or so ago, at the same event, I asked to look over someone's doll that had the specific body I was considering for a floating head, and being able to handle and look over that doll helped me make up my mind to get that doll. This time around, I think I may have helped make up some minds on the ones I'd brought along, for the same reason.

 

If they know about BJDs or I know them, they're allowed to hold them! No strangers though..I have a friend who I barely knew and she had never held a doll before, but she really loves them, so I let her handle my girl and she actually did a really good job!

 

I was at a doll meet-up a few months ago and most people asked but I wasn't paying attention and just said "sure"...I didn't know hardly anyone but figured if there were there at all they knew what they were doing....

 

I will let strangers hold my doll, if they ask or seem interested. I offer it and stand right there. I can tell if someone will be gentle or not, especially since I usually let people who know what BJDs are handle them. My friend Cassie got me into the hobby, and she let me hold her first doll, no worries. I guess that's why.

 

I'll let other bjd owners hold my doll, and close friends who have seen how I treat my doll. I'll let strangers touch my doll or pose her arms if they are over 15, and have clean hands. I'm pretty liberal, but this might change when I get more expensive dolls.

 

I feel I have to know a person before I let them handle my dolls at this point--unless I'm at a meet up or place where they know how to handle a doll. I see the dolls as an investment and I really can't replace them if something happens, so right now I am a bit of a nervous nelly when it comes to letting people touch my dolls (outside those I know). People are free to move them while I am holding the doll or take pictures tho.

 

I'm OK with people handling my dolls at meet ups (unless they are careless jerks but that never happens). There are some dolls that no one but myself and maybe one or two others may handle, mainly my Angel Egg girls. But if some total stranger off the street approached me and asked to hold one of my dolls I'd probably say no. I don't really take my dolls out except for meets so it isn't really an issue for me.

 

I let most people hold my dolls if they want to. Messy children or even messy grown-ups wouldn't be allowed to and most strangers that weren't previously into bjds haven't even asked... so *shrugs*

 

I have let strangers handle my dolls, though how they approach it would probably influence my decision. I do generally expect people at meets to be familiar with doll etiquette, but I've heard enough horror stories about dolls being dropped or damaged, faceups scratched, etc. to be a little wary. I would be really unhappy if someone just grabbed my doll and started handling it. Luckily, everyone I've encountered thus far has been very courteous and careful!

 

Hi, I have a hard time letting people hold my dolls. When I make an exception I do ask that they don't touch the face. Most people don't know how easy it is to mess up a custom face-up or how long it takes to get a doll or the expense.

 

I don't go to meet ups but I have let other doll owners handle mine. People I know get to handle them, and even borrow if need be! Strangers though- nah. I can get weird about people touching my things. Some of mine though I'd be weird about being handled period. Like my raspberries just seem more delicate than others, and if it's a doll I can't easily replace, they stick with me!

 

I haven't had the opportunity of a stranger asking to hold my doll. I'm really unsure how I would react. It would be hard not to think "that is $500+ of my money that could potentially go out the window". I would have to be right there with my hands under them LOL. If I know the person than absolutely! Or if it's people in the hobby at a meet or something since they understand the value. I think I would still be paranoid. It took a lot at first for me to let my mom take my doll out when I wasn't around and when I was around I watched like a hawk. That could also be some first doll paranoia though lol.


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Someone once said there ought to be a t shirt that says "You can hold my doll if I can hold your wallet."

 

somebody actually made buttons that said that. i had one for a long time, on my purse strap. LOL.

I think if a stranger asked, it would depend on a lot of things. Did they ask respectfully? Do their hands look clean? Part of me would be wondering, why would you want to hold it - what for? I mean, it's not like petting a dog where the dog enjoys it and you get to hug a nice doggie. I dunno.

at meetups I let people hold them. I figure they know what they are, they know the value, they know not to touch the face with their bare hands and stuff like that.

 

I'm quite okay with others holding my dolls. Well, if a particular person even knows that I have a BJD, this means we're pretty close and I can trust them, this in turn means they can hold my stuff, anything of my belongings, no matter how fragile.