She’s Urging You Not To Sell Your Hair Online After She Had A Freaky Experience
I’ve heard some crazy stories about things sold online, but I’ve never heard a story quite like this one.
One woman has put out a warning not to sell quantities of your hair online after she had a freaky experience with a buyer.
She only cuts her hair every three to four years and doesn’t do anything unnatural to it. It’s not dyed, and she doesn’t put any products in it.
Every time she cut her hair, she used to donate it to Locks for Love, the organization that takes donated hair and turned it into hair pieces for children who suffer from hair loss due to medical conditions.
However, she found that Locks for Love was very particular about the hair they used and would discard most of hers. So, she began selling it online.
“I am very curious about the weird things people do, so I once asked a buyer what she planned to do with the hair,” she explained. “She said she makes smaller hairpieces for people with partial hair loss.”
She thought that was very cool and assumed that most buyers had the same intentions. That is, until five years ago when she asked a buyer who gave her an unexpected answer.
She listed a ponytail online, and it sold for $50. She asked the buyer what he had planned on doing with her hair. He told her he volunteered at an after-school library program where the students had recently read a story about cancer.
He wanted to buy her hair to show the kids what charity organizations like Locks for Love make wigs out of.
Halfpoint – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
His explanation made zero sense to her.
“I thought that was odd,” she recalled. “But people are odd, so I printed out the postage, packaged up my hair, and got ready to ship it.”
Then, she got a super creepy message from him. He had figured out where she worked and found her profile on her job’s website. He asked if the profile was hers and said he “wanted to know more” about her.
The weird message prompted her to do some research on this guy. After she did an internet search on his name and cross-referenced property records with the address used on his online profile, she discovered he was only 16-years-old and lived with his parents, who were high-power government attorneys.
None of this sat right with her, so she decided to message him back and tell him she didn’t feel comfortable selling to him anymore.
She also contacted the online platform she was selling through, and they suspended his profile once they found out he was underage. However, he quickly made a new one and messaged her again, begging her to sell him her hair.
She tried to ignore him, but he didn’t stop there.
A few days later, she went to work and got an email notification that she had a voicemail waiting for her on her work phone. She immediately freaked out when she saw that the voicemail’s caller ID was the 16-year-old’s mother.
Although the voicemail was blank and contained no message, she was super freaked out.
She had to embarrassingly tell her boss what had happened to avoid the kid calling her workplace again. Her office took the proper precautions, and she never heard from him again.
To this day, she wonders what his intentions were with her hair.
Three years later, she sold more of her hair online again, this time to an anonymous buyer. Everything went fine until the buyer messaged her and asked for one of her hairbrushes with a bit of hair still in it. They wanted to buy it right away.
At this point, she confirmed to herself that people who bought hair online were weirdos.
“Then again, I plan to cut my hair this month and put it (online) again,” she added. “So, who’s the real weirdo?”
Would you ever sell your hair online?
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