In the tradition of creepy people who want my hair, I bring you the guy whose handle is basically "Bald Lover" who has thankfully only tried twice to get me.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Creepy webcam guy
Now for the story of creepy webcam guy. I'll refer to him as that, since he's probably a very nice man, just ... creepy. And I don't want to sully his character without good reason. I think I have good reason, but I'll be nice.
See, my ad had been up for just over a week at this point, with no real offers. Sure, a few people in Nigeria said they'd pay me the full amount and have a shipper get my hair, but I'm not a fool. A couple of people wanted more pictures, but nothing came of those, either.Oh, and one guy wanted me to grow my hair out for a full year, and he'd pay me $100 a month to do that before cutting it for him after that year was over. Yeah, no thanks.
Then this guy emails, interested in my hair. He wants to hop on Yahoo messenger and webcam.
Well, I like the idea of having someone interested in my hair whose IP traces to the United States, but ... not the webcam part. So I lie and tell him I don't have a webcam, but I'd gladly get on messenger. I sent this just before I went out to run errands, because I do have a life outside of the internet.
See, my ad had been up for just over a week at this point, with no real offers. Sure, a few people in Nigeria said they'd pay me the full amount and have a shipper get my hair, but I'm not a fool. A couple of people wanted more pictures, but nothing came of those, either.Oh, and one guy wanted me to grow my hair out for a full year, and he'd pay me $100 a month to do that before cutting it for him after that year was over. Yeah, no thanks.
Then this guy emails, interested in my hair. He wants to hop on Yahoo messenger and webcam.
Well, I like the idea of having someone interested in my hair whose IP traces to the United States, but ... not the webcam part. So I lie and tell him I don't have a webcam, but I'd gladly get on messenger. I sent this just before I went out to run errands, because I do have a life outside of the internet.
How it began ...
So this really is just Krista's fault that I'm posting all this, but hey--maybe it'll help someone else, and if not, it'll give you a laugh.
See, about 6 months ago, I decided that I ought to sell my hair. I have long hair, down past my butt, and it's thick and healthy and also kind of gorgeous. And red hair goes for up to $100 an inch. So 20 inches would get me $2000.
That's not a small amount of money for hair. So I decided I was going to do it.
It took me from November until May 9th to finally get around to getting everything ready to sell and such.
You need pictures--LOTS of pictures. You need pictures of your hair down, pictures of your hair up, pictures of your hair braided, of how thick around it is, how heavy it is, in natural light, indoors, how long you're cutting it to ... and also? No faces in the pictures. There's a lot of creepy people out there, as will be mentioned later (again, thanks ever so, Krista. :p ). And I made a new email address--that's where the name of this blog comes from, since I didn't want creepers getting my main email.
I went through buyandsellhair.com because they seem to be the highest traffic site, with the highest selling prices. They also have guides for selling and buying hair, and scams to watch out for, so it seems pretty legit. Plus, they've been mentioned in legitimate news sources, which definitely adds to their credibility. And anyway, hair selling isn't a new idea, anyway--it's just weird to hear about it in the United States.
It does cost to list there, so this isn't something you can throw up and change your mind (well, I suppose you could, but then you're out the money), but the added cost of upgrading to a featured ad gives you a better chance of someone seeing your hair. All told, it cost less than $30 to list for 3 months.
Now I'm playing the waiting game, hoping someone will like my 26" of hair enough to drop cash on it. Preferably someone who isn't a creeper.
See, about 6 months ago, I decided that I ought to sell my hair. I have long hair, down past my butt, and it's thick and healthy and also kind of gorgeous. And red hair goes for up to $100 an inch. So 20 inches would get me $2000.
That's not a small amount of money for hair. So I decided I was going to do it.
It took me from November until May 9th to finally get around to getting everything ready to sell and such.
You need pictures--LOTS of pictures. You need pictures of your hair down, pictures of your hair up, pictures of your hair braided, of how thick around it is, how heavy it is, in natural light, indoors, how long you're cutting it to ... and also? No faces in the pictures. There's a lot of creepy people out there, as will be mentioned later (again, thanks ever so, Krista. :p ). And I made a new email address--that's where the name of this blog comes from, since I didn't want creepers getting my main email.
I went through buyandsellhair.com because they seem to be the highest traffic site, with the highest selling prices. They also have guides for selling and buying hair, and scams to watch out for, so it seems pretty legit. Plus, they've been mentioned in legitimate news sources, which definitely adds to their credibility. And anyway, hair selling isn't a new idea, anyway--it's just weird to hear about it in the United States.
It does cost to list there, so this isn't something you can throw up and change your mind (well, I suppose you could, but then you're out the money), but the added cost of upgrading to a featured ad gives you a better chance of someone seeing your hair. All told, it cost less than $30 to list for 3 months.
Now I'm playing the waiting game, hoping someone will like my 26" of hair enough to drop cash on it. Preferably someone who isn't a creeper.
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