They seem to have edited their website, so that they removed a lot of the numbers that we put together to figure out what is going on.
From this page
http://www.locksoflove.org/press.html They say that they were founded in 1989, and that they have served "over 2000" children. For the math, I'll say 2500, since that's the next number they're likely to round off to. The total is probably under 3000, or else they've said "over 3000." Since they were founded in 1989, they've been in existance for 17 years, in which to do this work. Some of the children probably have gotten more than one wig, so lets say, 3000 wigs.
In a previous version of their website, they said they recieved 2000 hair donations
a week. However, they probably didn't get so many over their whole existance (starting from zero), so I'll say an average of 1000 per week, over their existance.
At some point they posted that they needed 6-10 donations per wig. I'll go with 10.
So these are the numbers I'll use to figure out how much hair goes into the wigs:
1000 donations a week
10 donations per wig
15 years
3000 wigs
1000 donations a week x 52 weeks in a year x 15 years is 780,000 donations.
780,000 donations, with 10 donations per wig, would be hair for 78,000 wigs.
They've probably made about 3000 wigs, from donations sufficent to make 78,000. That is about 3.8% of the hair recieved going to wigs.
That's a scam, at least from the hair donors point of view.
People are donating their hair to go into wigs, not to be sold, thrown out, or left sitting in a warehouse. People are being pressured to cut their hair for donation, by people who think the hair will go into wigs for sick kids.
Locks of Love is saying "give us your hair, we'll make it into a wig for a sick kid." And overall, that's a
lie.
And it is a lie that leads to many of us being pressured to cut our hair when we don't want to.
And that's why many people here don't like Locks of Love