Would you loan someone your doll or ask to borrow one?

That depnds on who is asking to borrow him. There is probably only one person in the world I would lend him to and thats my best friend. But she also has a doll and I trust her completely. besides the fact thaat I see her almost every day. I actually have lend my boy to her before when I had to go to work and she wanted to take pictures of our boys together.
I would never ask to borrow someones doll unless I was really comfortable and close to them...I wouldnt want someone to ask me to borrow mine if I wasnt close to them...

 

I don't think I could, I'm kinda protective of my dolls so I would feel uneasy to lend them to someone. Maybe if I knew the person really well....but even then I'd consider it twice.
As for borrowing a doll, same answer: no. I'm ok with swapping dolls at a meet to play with but not for a longer period of time.

 

I would be hard pressed to either ask or loan my doll(s) out to someone. That is, of course, when I get one. There is only one person that I can say for certain that I would allow to take them for any period of time. I don't think that I could ask anyone to borrow their doll either. I would be too afraid that something would happen to it while in my posession. I'm paranoid that way.

I do have a friend with a nice collection of dolls that has offered on more than one occasion to loan me one to try out my jewelry creations on. We found that even with the measurements listed on the sites and the ones I took myself, each piece hangs differently. Usually though I just take the pieces to the dolls and make adjustments as needed.

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I would never let anyone, not even my best friend in the entire world keep my doll. If it was for something like an outfit I would take my doll to meet them and cut patterns there. If it was for some other reason I would make a day (or night if we can do a sleepover) of it. Bring the doll over and we'd work on whatever it was together.

Same thing if roles were reversed. In fact I'm going over to my friends house next weekend with my pastels and MSC to blush her boy Dimitri. I couldn't even ask her to part with him so I could do it without her. I wouldn't feel comfortable handling someone's doll without them there. Unless they go all parent leaving there child with the babysiter for the first time I wouldn't know if there was anything specific about the doll like floppy or kicky or thin resin or if they want the head cap off or whatever it was. I'd be to paranoid that I would break it to do anything with it.

 

Depends on who it is. I loaned my KD to may friend so she could make outfits for her own (first) KD who was on his way home. I set some rules and showed her how to handle him. But if it was anyone else the answer would have been a no. I really dislike others touching my dolls unless it's my one friend. Lol. She sometimes takes all my boys off my hands when I go away for a weekend. Lol. Babysitting is always fun.

Reverse it - Again just depends on who it is. If my friend gets her 80cm Soom before me well then I might just have to borrow it lol. But the answer will differ from situation to situation

 

I'm not sure it would count as borrowing, because it was reverse of that. But last year when my roommate was going to Saboten Con on a day I couldn't, I asked her to take Didi to the BJD event for me. She told me next time I had to come because everyone wanted to stop and talk to her about him. LOL I trusted her to bring him back safe and sound, though.

Just recently I did ask to borrow hers to take pictures with Didi. But since it was in the apartment, and I was just taking pictures, she probably wasn't too worried. Though Lisetta decided to take a backwards dive off the arm of the doll chair she was posing on. Freaked me out, because I would have felt horribly guilty if anything happened to her.

My mom borrows Didi all the time, too. And she never asks. It used to bother me, but lately I find it amusing. ("Why is Didi on the dining room table?") I guess cuz I'm glad she likes him so much, and once again I completely trust her with him.

So I guess it would depend on who asked and how long.

 

I would have to be really good friends with the person first. And I mean, they would have to be a *best* friend. I would have to be able to trust them completely.

Probably, if I asked, I'd ask just to use it while I was with them. That way it wouldn't leave their sight. I could take measurements, try something on, but the doll would still be in their possession technically.

If they asked me, same deal. They can play with it while I'm around, but no taking my dolls home with them.

 

I would lend it to a friend, or someone that live close (that I can trust)
But other than that I don't think so.

 

No I wouldn't lend my doll to anyone. I don't have a best friend or a well trusted friend, if I did... then maybe.

 

I know some owners get attached to their dolls, but would you lend your dolls to anyone? Perhaps you have a friend who really wants a doll but can't afford it, or you know someone who would like to try making accessories/clothes for your doll... would you? Just a thought!

 

I actually have had a few friends that make things like costumes and whatnot and they've been interested in trying their craft at something doll sized. I offered to loan them my doll to use as a dummy but they both seemed kind of nervous knowing how much she costs So I don't think they will take me up on the offer any time soon.

These happen to be some extremely close friends though that I would trust would know how to treat this doll very respectfully. Otherwise I wouldn't even consider it, lol!

 

There once was in Finnish BJD forum a request for dolls to lend as a person owning one doll wanted to make a photostory with many characters, and offered to make clothes and face-ups for free to those who take part of it. I believed from first sight it was an innocent thing to ask not a scam but still, the risks... I´d never send my doll for strange person as there´s no guarantee how she´d handle it after all, as seemed not being young and not too familiar with these dolls. After all she didn´t get all characters she was hoping to get, but two dolls she got for it, and she really made a photostory of them and it was nice to see it.

I could imagine giving my dolls as dummy for clothes, for a photostory or some other similar purpose to some of my doll related friends, but hardly for nobody I´d fully trust. My non-doll hobbyist friends probably wouldn´t even want to take them in their responsibility because they know these dolls are expensive and would feel worried of braking them accidently or something.

 

Darn you're in norcal lol I'm a stranger but I'd offer a decent deposit :P Sadly, I can't have a bjd til I move out.

I know what you mean though I wouldn't lend something of value to anyone I don't trust too.

 

Seriously, no. I don't like lending my fiction books or dvds to people either because I've lost several books and dvds to people not returning them and skipping town so a doll that is pretty expensive in my eyes? Definitely not.

 

Yep, when I know the person well enough, sometimes he goes to a friend of mine to stay for a few weeks and sometimes I get one of her dolls to stay with me for a while
But I do really miss them if they're away.. ;_; and get all sorts of awsome ideas to do with them.. until I realize they aren't here.. XD

 

I wouldn't really lend my dolls out to a friend, no matter how close to me she/he is or how careful. I don't like to have my dolls out of reach and really would miss them.
I don't mind taking dolls to anyone when visiting, so they have plenty of oppertunities to do the thing they want with me near :p they only thing they have to accept is that I'll be near xD But then again, if they don't like it, I wouldn't call them friends and won't even consider letting them hold my dolls xD

It's just that I've had some smaller accidents with my dolls, but since they are my fault I can still accept it a bit, since it will be me paying the new parts etx. But when someone else would have that happen I would probably be just as angry as I am at myself (which isn't a nice thing) ... So when I'm there aswell it's an extra safeguard ^^

 

In general, no.
I'd definitely never lend any of my boys to a stranger and not to most of my friends either. Not because I don't think that they'd be careful with them, or that they're not trustworthy in general, but come on .. I even dislike lending books to friends, so I guess you can imagine how I'd feel, giving my $700 resin lump away ;_; Forget it. I'm just very attached to my personal items, can't help it.

I've had my friend's Reisner over for about two weeks though, long before I got my own dolls, so I could see if I'd actually like having a doll like that here with me (I'm scared of dolls normally) and I'd lend my boys to this certain friend any time, in a heartbeat. Mainly because he's the only one of my RL friends who's even more into BJDs than I am

 

No.
The only time I let a doll stay with someone else was when I commisioned that person to create an outfit for me. And I only did that because I trusted her completely.

And seriously, the few times I lend a dvd-box to someone, it came back incomplete, or broken, or it didn't come back at all. My dolls are too expensive to take the risk.

 

To a stranger, GOD NO.

To my friends, alllllll the time. As it happens, at the moment, only two of my dolls are away from me, but usually that number rises and I've been without four or five at a time on occasion. I don't lend them out indiscriminately, they only go to very close doll friends that I know will take as good a care of them as I do and often they lend me their dolls too, so it's not a one sided thing either. I enjoy seeing other people's photograph's of my dolls and since my characters have interwoven stories with the characters of my friends dolls, it's nice for us to be able to shoot them together sometimes.

 

It depends on the person. My friends no. Friends with dolls yes. It's not that I would miss them because I rarely do much more but look at them but they're just too expensive to lend out to someone with no experience in handling them.