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

I have a few friends I'm willing to loan my dolls to--but mostly because I know exactly where they live/can walk to their houses/we're all doll people.

But I remember a number of years ago, my friend foolishly made a bet with me about a continuity error in The Brave Little Toaster--and he said if I won I could borrow his boy for a week. I won, and I got to keep him at my house for a few months instead, because my friend didn't come to pick him up and neither of us had cars to get me there. When he did come grab him, for some reason he left his box and papers with me, and a hat, and it's been five years and I've still got them all. .__. He doesn't seem too concerned by it, so... I'm hoping someday I can talk a price out of him and buy the poor boy. I don't think he sees the world much--I haven't seen pictures since he deboxed him for the first time.

 

I love my friends to death and I know them all to well, so no. My friends are the type of friends who kinda bully one another, not in a bad way, but everybody knows it's not serious so its ok. Like one friend will take anothers glasses and hold them ransom during a lunch period or a cell phone, maybe even a DS. So to have this happen with a doll even if I do give it to them willingly and have something happen? No thank you. I'd freak, flip out, and a bunch of other things, and I like them way to much to let an object get in the way of our friendship.

 

The only people I would ever "lend" any of my dolls to would be my best friend or my aunt. My BFF has more BJDs than I do, and I know I can trust her with them (plus, she loves my gang as much as I do :P and helped me pick them out - she bought me Hakkai!). I wouldn't even really hesitate there, except if I wanted/needed the doll or knew I'd feel bad without them at home. And as for my aunt... she makes clothes for my dolls, so of course if I could bear to be without them, it would be okay. But I live with her, so that's unnecessary. xD

My mother wishes I would loan her one of my dolls, but I refuse flatly every time she asks. I love my dolls too much - I know my mum, and I'd never get the doll back, or if by some chance I did, it'd probably be chewed up by the puppy, or have parts lost by my brother or something. :\ And if I had to replace anything, it'd never happen. Ugh.

 

i have had bad experiences with lending anything i always never get payed back or i never see or get it back again sadly so because of that i don't think i could again unless i was 100% sure i would get it back.

 

My friend and I are constantly lending each other our dolls. I she had my first doll for a while to make him clothes, my third to give her a face-up and one of my floating heads just cuz. On the flipside I've had one of hers here so that I could do a photoshoot with him and I currently have her girl here with me so that I can mod her. I trust her completely which is why I feel so comfortable letting her hold onto my dolls every once and a while. It also helps that she lives only a 5 minute walk away. I don't think I would feel comfortable lending to anyone else since 1) I wouldn't know how they handle dolls and 2) there would be a nagging worry about getting them back. Though I could see myself lending them out if someone else built up the same level of trust as I have in this friend.

 

Err..no. Just as Snow said. No one would be able to take care of them the way I do and give them the attention they need.
Unless one of my close friends had a doll of their own and took care of it just as I do mine, then no.

Well, if I made my friend sign something saying that if any damage is inflicted then my friend would pay for it, then maybe.

 

Well, I don't know anyone else with dolls, in fact I've only told my husband and mother that I'm getting them. So I guess I haven't really had the opportunity to lend, but I'd have to say that I wouldn't. I had a horror story happen once when I lent a friend all my Sex and the City DvD's and the cases came back broken. Since then I can't say I've really lent anything out. Before that experience, which she never apologized for or acknowledged, I may have considered it.

 

If it was someone who takes really good care of their own dolls who wanted to borrow it (for something like a photostory) and if it was a friend that I trusted, I would lend one of my dolls. However, I think it's fair to request to borrow one of theirs too...

 

no. i generally don't like lending things because often the person takes LOOOOOONG time giving it back. its always ''OH sorry! i forgot it at my house! >.<;; '' and i NEED the thing also, but i dont have it.
also, i would be WAY to scared the person might damamge my doll!

 

I've done it with Verse a couple times. We were living on the same college campus though, and I trust her with my dolls completely. If it were a friend who knew a lot about the dolls and was saving for one, and I happened to be in busy mode and didn't have much time to play with my kids anyway, I probably would loan one for a bit. But only if they didn't have to be put in the mail.
Other than that...no way.

 

It varies for me. I only have my two, and I very much like having them around. My boyfriend could take one home with him, if he really wanted to, but his brother and niece currently live with him, and the latter is probably not too good around the dolls. My girl had been shipped to his house originally and he brought her over (totally unopened) when she arrived.
I wouldn't mind letting one of my teen cousins take care of one for a while, but I don't think they'd do too well with sibling or friends. Plus I'd hate to ship one all the way up there.

Other than that, If I feel the need to hang out with other dolls, I go to our (fairly often) meet-ups. ^^

Reminds me though, I need to pick up a new little camera case and card for my boyfriend. He's camera is on indefinite loan to me yet I managed to bust the zipper-pull (it was thin, thin plastic), and his card seems rather tiny.

 

I've lent dolls to friends several times before. My girlfriend's deciding if she wants to get into the hobby, while my other friend just wanted to swap dolls for a week so I could make clothes for her girl and she could get to know kid delfs better. I see no harm in lending dolls to good friends as long as they know how to care for and keep them from getting damaged, long distance lending on the other hand, no. I don't trust it and I'm way too attached to my boys to send any of them far away.

 

Wow, there are some lovely trusting souls answering this thread, you all make me feel like such a meanie, but, NOOOOOOOO, I would never let anyone borrow any of my dolls! I feel myself getting all creeped out at the mere thought of it!

My friends are lovely, sweet, charming people, love them to bits but if they want to see my dolls they can look at them in photos, they can look at them through glass or then can look at them up close while I'm holding them! I think I would even be nervous of people picking them up... the thing is, I've learned from many instances of lending out DVDs, books, clothes, etc... that sometimes, lovely, sweet, charming people that you love to bits have a different attitude to caring for mere possessions, even ones they've borrowed. They give them back late, not at all or dirty and broken... and they don't see the big deal. call me anal, but keep away from my dolls!

I'm never going to make t to a meet up am I?

 

Cds yeah, Dolls NO. XD I actually will be surprised if a friend of mind would even ask such a thing really. And if they don't know much about it, lending it can be disastrous and end up ruining the friendship if something were to happen to the doll.

 

Wow this thread grew XD I should've made a poll!

Haha so true! Some people... or should I say 'many' undervalue BJDs.

That sucks I would be pissed as heck if that happened to me...

LOL you know what, I think that's reasonable :P Maybe a deposit at least to cover damages or something

Go Mom!!!!!!!

Makes me curious on the doll's current state... since you pretty much still have the doll's other stuff, i hope you get the doll as well!

 

Hmm no I do not believe I would loan out my doll unless it was a really close friend or family member and they had a very good reason for wanting it ie practicing to make doll sized clothes other then that I believe I would have to be near them with my doll.

 

To strangers, no.
~Acquaintances, depends (I mean, aren't you technically lending your doll to a face-up artist or modder? ^^" Unless people who do services are different from acquaintances... o_o)" )
~Friends, also depends. If they have knowledge of dolls than most likely yes. But if their knowledge is slim than either I'd have to accompany them in whatever it is they want to do with my doll(s) or decline.
~Family, no. I love them, but I don't trust them with a lot of my things >_> (Had an incident with my Bygg lacking a horn after my grandma was in my room. Found the horn easily, though x_x)b )

As for people looking after my dolls while I'm away, I have some good friends that I could call on and/or I can store then safely in my room :]

 

I'd lend my dolls to one person and one person only. She knows who she is and if she comes across this message I say "HEY BEBE!!!" She has a few dolls herself, got me into the habit (cow xD) and knows how to treat dolls. I wouldn't lend out my dolls to anybody else.

 

Hiya!
I would and have in the past, also have one freind who lives nearby who never minds loaning me her BJD as I often have the need for different dolls to take photos of them wearing stock for my site

It is a great feeling to be able to borrow another collectors dolls when they are needed and they always go back with something new, either a new wig or clothes as a kind of thanks for the loan!

xx

 

I have loaned a doll to someone who was doing a commission for third party and needed a model to check the fit. I trusted the person so it wasn't a big deal to send the doll to her for several days.

I have known folks who left the country for several months and left their dolls among trusted doll-friends (not family members). I think if I were to go somewhere and my dolls couldn't go with me I'd prefer to know they were in the hands of people who would cherish, enjoy them, and take care of them.