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A_Beaverhausen's avatar

Do you think locks of love is a scam?

Asked by A_Beaverhausen (2443points) March 22nd, 2009

i was thinking about donating, so i visited the site, and it seems a bit dodgy. exactly how much of the hair do they sell to “offset the manufacturing costs?”

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asmonet's avatar

It’s not a scam, you just need to research their policies and procedures and understand what they really do. Kids with cancer don’t get their wigs. Kids with long-term/permanent hair loss do.

casheroo's avatar

when i googled “locks of…” automatically “locks of love scam” showed up. not a good sign. i’d never heard it was a scam.

asmonet's avatar

Mostly it’s because people ended up feeling lied to because they do nothing to deny the claim that they give wigs to people with cancer, in reality they are regularly turned down.

They do sell most of the hair they receive to wig makers, they keep the highest quality they can for their own wigs.

I read the breakdown somewhere and it was something like they had the hair for 10,000 wigs that would have been fine one year but only made <350.

Makes you wonder.

grog's avatar

I decided not to donate my pony tail when I learned that my grey hair would have been sold for a pittance rather than dyed.

galileogirl's avatar

The way Google works is the the phrases that have the most hits come up first, All that means is that “locks of love scams” had more searches than official locks of love website. You know how the internet works, someone starts a rumorabout s scam and within a week half a million searches are logged on google and when you enter ‘locks of l’ the scam site pops up.

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