Being in the beauty industry, I know the price of hair extensions, wholesale. They are very expensive. What we call strands are groupings of about 20-25 hairs bonded together. These hairs are then applied to a persons own real hair. It usually takes 200 "strands" to complete a full set of extensions. Now the price of those 200 "strands" ia anywhere from $150 (cheap) to $500 and up, so long hair is VERY valuable, and if one could find a market to sell this in, they would be making a-lot of money. This hair is normally obtained from women in india, who are too poor to leave $ in their temples as an offering, so they sacrafice their hair. Then the priests collect it and sell it. This happens all over the world in poor communities. I would suspect, as cunning and clever as the theives are in the DR, if they got word of this, it would seem like easy money to them. I would be cautious anyhow, just in case, because if they are not doing it now, im sure they will be soon, as the demand for hair is growing by a rate that cannot be kept up with by their conventional gathering methods.
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