Anyone else have this happen?

[Shankula]

I saw pics of a doll (Baha) in some friggin adorable vignettes, like in a little house made for it, playing with stuff--and totally fell in love with the doll...I decided to put one on layaway, then in a mad dash to not have it on a long layaway, sold stuff/scrounged money so I could pay it off in a week, and she got here and I looooved her. THEN she sat. It wasn't the same since I have no time/money/energy to make a little house/backdrop for her. It isn't that I didn't love her, its almost like I didn't know what to do with her--she didn't 'fit'. I had her less than 2 weeks when I finally decided to just sell her instead of feeling guilty about even considering it, because there was another doll (narae 'heartbreak') that I had wanted for over 6 months, and I had the opportunity to buy her so I went for it.

Am I the only one who has been branded 'Ficklina' by her friends? Has anyone else had this happen to them, especially the feeling guilty part? I mean, it seems silly to feel guilty about selling a doll, but I did--almost afraid of my friends judging me for buying her, then getting rid of her.

[Wickedgood]

I almost did this recently. There was a rash of posts with pics of Elfdoll Hana Angel and Devil, and I fell completely in love with the different faceups and HAD to get one NOW. So I posted a WTB ad; thought nonstop about them (even dreamed about them); and got several offers from people interested in selling me theirs. Just as I was about to do a money-transfer, I realized that she just wouldn't fit in with my other dolls at all.

I was rather sad that I didn't think all of this through until I had managed to drag other people into it, but I'm glad I came to the decision before I actually purchased the doll (buyers remorse is the worst feeling ever). Luckily the people who were wanting to sell theirs managed to find other buyers very quickly. But I decided to be a lot more careful about rushing to buy dolls on a whim in the future.

... and then I almost bought an Unoa Sist on Y!J last week. Until the same thing happened. I am so fickle its not even funny :|

[Taco]

This is why I haven't bought any of the adorable tinies I keep seeing. They are so cute, but I'm terrified that if I bought one I wouldn't know what to do with it and that I wouldn't be able to bond with the doll.

[koi]

Nope, you are not the only one who went through that. The same thing happened to me with Chaim. I really worked hard to raise the funds to get him and it seemed to take forever for me to get him. Finally when I did get him, I was like "What happened? Where did all the umph go?"

I didn't sell him right away because I felt guilty about it. Eventually I figured he should go to someone who would enjoy owning him instead of leaving him stored in a box.

My friends didn't say anything to me directly but they did roll their eyes at me.

[Merry]

I pretty much feel like Ms Fickle any time I sell a doll. I remember how much I wanted that doll and how much I loved it (and possibly still do) so I feel pretty horrid when I begin considering to sell the doll.

But it comes down to that dolls that look great on the website may not fit what I have in mind when they arrive and I see them in person. I've even felt downright overwhelmed by certain dolls and parted with them due to that (I have a bad habit of thinking some dolls are 'too beautiful for me to own'...Madoka and Hound were two of these).

On a couple of occasions, with dolls that I owned for over a year, I felt that my tastes had changed and parted with them.

In the early days of the hobby selling a doll was a little frowned upon as being callous and fickle (though there were certainly no lack of buyers). So I still have a bit of that mindset left in me adding to my already sizeable guilt complex. :sweat Fortunately, people nowadays are much more understanding and, really, there are lots of good reasons one might part with a doll.

[Myriai]

I feel guilty almost every time I sell a doll, but I think the worst was when I sold my DoD DoC boys (a Si, a Yen, and a Too) because I was so all-fired ready to get them (actually the Si stayed in my possession almost 2 years) and once I had them it was awesome--then I realized I had scale issues ^^; When you look at them by themselves they have that older look to them in comparison to other MSD-sized dolls, but given their characters are supposed to be in their early 20's and my SD-sized dolls all generally appear to be 25 (character wise) the scale thing just did not work. I wound up selling all three of them even though I did love them very much and a few of my friends rolled my eyes a little bit at me ^^;

[celticgeekess]

Ummm, since I've been dubbed the "Resin Revolving Door", I can say that this has happened to me a few times.

I blame the relative scarcity of BJD owners in my area.....If I could see the dolls IRL before buying, my choices would involve much less error.
:)

[syrinx]

I think the "idea" of the doll sometimes outweighs the actual item. I've had a few dolls pass through my hands that I thought would be great, in theory, but I generally knew even before they arrived at my door they wouldn't work. Thankfully the resale value of a majority of dolls stays consistent.

[saranilla]

I have had that happen twice, with the same doll. Love Emma, love Emma's mold, but when I got her the first time she just sat, I totally ignored her, so I sold her, then missed her so bad it was horrid. :cry As luck had it they still had an Emma on Volks Japan so I purchased her again. Same thing, got her, she sat ignored as the other had so I sold her too. When I need a "fix" of that beautiful mold now I just go to the gallery and check out Emma's and I am fine without her. :)

There have been a couple others I just had to have too like a spoiled little child (at my age). And now after 2 years and many dolls through the revolving door later, I think I am finally settling into who I really like so hopefully my current group will be keepers. ;)

There is SO MUCH out there now it is hard not to have grabby hands, but I am slowly learning self control - I hope.

[Vampiresmama]

Yeah I've done it before. I saw BC Pepe and fell in love with the mold. I bought her got her home and didn't bond with her much. So I ended up selling her. I'm starting to feel the same way about my Pipos Curo. :( I'm still trying with him though...

[FranC]

I remember in the early days, when there was only Volks available, the idea was pretty much "for life". Other dolls could be sold and resold, but Super Dollfies were different, and were sons and daughters to be loved and cherished and not sold. That idea really apppealed to me. However, using a shopping service or travelling to Japan was not feasible for me, so I gave up on the idea of ever owning a SD. Time passed, and one day I discovered that while I had been away the world of SD had changed and there were many companies making ABJD
Since then, I have bought nearly a dozen or so dolls, and have sold five (would make that six, but noone wants him :p) and the only doll I feel unable and unwilling to sell on is my Fairy Warrior, by Souldoll. I remember mooning over his pictures on Souldoll's website, squeeing over his ears :heart and generally dying of unrequited love. Until one appeared on eBay, just at the time I was having a major sell-off of fashion dolls...I pounced, paid and he arrived and has ruled the house ever since. :D
I am sad to sell dolls, but tell myself they are going to better homes. Hopefully it is true.

Oh, and I have a Pipos Baha I scrimped and sold things to get, and all she does is sit...

:XD

[Janne]

I always seem to have such grand plans when I buy a doll. *^^* Costumes, sets, photostories... and I have to admit when seeing a really staggeringly talented photographer shoot a beautiful doll (you guys know who you are!) I sometimes feel a strong desire to have that doll and bring beautiful images like that about myself.

But time usually defeats my plans, and then it feels like I'm surrounded by dolls who have been kind of cheated of their moments of glory (as pitiful as such moments were likely to actually be ^^;;; ) and by their silent recriminations.

I really sometimes think I'd be happiest with one very spoiled doll. *^^*

[Winterlude]

It's very difficult to know from one or two photographs, if we are going to like a doll or not. It seems most of us have found ourselves in this situation from time to time, due to that fact. There is always that quest for the perfect doll. Can't blame anyone for that. ^_^

[Shankula]

It's very difficult to know from one or two photographs, if we are going to like a doll or not. It seems most of us have found ourselves in this situation from time to time, due to that fact. There is always that quest for the perfect doll. Can't blame anyone for that. ^_^

In my case with this particular doll, here was how it went:
saw pics, was slightly creeped out but intrigued...
held one at a local meet and fell in love...
saw lots and lots of meowlicious photo spam and loved even more...
ordered her...
loved her, sat her on shelf.

I keep feeling like if I only had the time/money/motivation to MAKE a room setting, I could do the cool pictures, cute prop stuff...I think maybe this is about me letting myself down, like admitting to myself that no, I will never be like those who are able to do those cool photo prop things--I've got a 3 year old and a trashed house, there is no way that Miss Taffy Pussywillow is going to sip tea with her toy bears and dollies in my house. Sigh. Oh well, at least now I know I'm not alone, and feel less like a heel for folding so quickly and selling her--its almost like I just *knew* it wasn't going to work/last.

[torimiko]

FOr me, it wasn't a size issue, it was a personality. I bought a domuya flexi when they first went on speical because I was dying to handle one. I spent a month searching for a head, and tried to make everything just right for it. But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get it to fit in with the others. I knew it was a lost cause when I went to Dolls and Friends and on inpulse bought a Cherish Demon. He fit in with my crew right away. I've since sold my flexibody to pay for another doll project! :)

[batchix]

To me if it was changing clothes constantly, like five times a day... I'd say you were fickle. XD But with dolls you really don't know if you'll like them until you hold the doll in hand and play with it. I've had a couple dolls I adored, but when I got them home I couldn't stand the way they posed, or how they looked without a face-up or things like that. Stuff I didn't know till I played with them. :/

[Voodoo]

I hate selling dolls, so when my Chiwoo didn't work out for his character (I'm starting to think its one I'll never fill), I changed his look. I'm really happy with him now, but I have acquired an unexpected character.

[CatMoran]

Oh, yeah. I loved the Domuya Fin in her promo pics. I don't dislike her at all, in fact I do enjoy playing with her, but I can't stand to have her around any of the rest of the crew because she makes my SD boys look like 12yos! I'm used to them being 18 to early 20s, it freaks me out a bit to see them looking like Jr High kids.

But I can't say I would never buy another tall girl. I sold an msd girl because of size issues, then later bought the mnf elf shiwoo on a whim -- he's my current favorite, and I have no problem ignoring the proportion issues.

It's so difficult to tell if a new doll will fit with the current crew.

[Obscurity]

I've definitely had that happen...In a way. Other people's photography and work with dolls provides a lot of inspiration for me as to what dolls I want to buy for certain characters, or what dolls I'd just like to own and so on - So seeing people post awesome photos of a certain kind of doll definitely makes me want to run out and buy that doll - That's actually why I got my Jerome.

However, I'm a sap and I haven't been able to actually -sell- a doll yet, though I've been kicking the idea around for a while. x_x I think I get to emotionally attached to things, even if they don't end up being exactly what I wanted.

[ginarolo]

I really was crazy wanting a MSd Rock. But no matter how hard I tried..he looked too anime compared to the rest of my Msd gang. So out he went. He just didn't fit in.

His head went to a new owner who made him a girl and she now lives with another more anime styled msd sculpt.

His body went to someone else.

[Mela]

I have definitely had those sculpts that just did not work out for various reasons.

Last year, I bought a MNF Lishe from someone on DoA. I adore Lishe. I had a big one. But the transaction was horrendous and in the end, I was so frustrated with the process of actually getting the doll in my possession and the issues I found when I got her that I kept her less than two weeks before she went to a new home. She was an adorable girl, and I probably would have kept her if I hadn't been so mad at the seller.

And then I used the money from the MNF Lishe to buy a Latidoll M. I loved him. Loved his face, he fit in just fine with the rest of my doll family...but I hated his knees. I could not get him to stand to save my life, and I would get frustrated trying to pose him. Eventually, I just didn't play with him because of his legs, so I sold him. I think I had him for around two months.

I agree with Batchix's comment - you just don't know if you're going to like a doll until you see one in person. I didn't care for Unoss until I got to play with one. I disliked the SD13 girl body until I bought one (intending to resell it) to use for a sewing project, and months later that body is still here (with a head, even). This hobby, like any other, is largely influenced by personal preference, and if someone doesn't like a doll they should not feel obligated to keep it. Yes, we tend to give our dolls more significance than other possessions, but it's not 'fair' to them if they just sit, and it's not fair to us if there's another mold we think we'd prefer.

[kirane]

I have done that several times too, falling in love with dolls, putting an angsty WTB, getting them in a week and realizing that they weren't the ones for me once at home. I felt guilty as well, not for reselling them two weeks later, but because of my own non-understanding of my 'needs'. I actually felt stupid. I've sold some dolls to get those and now I miss my yotenshi Kasumi :/

But as everyone said, it's complicated to know if a doll would fit or not. I absolutely love two dolls of a friend, bought the same model of one and had to sell her quickly because it was her doll that I liked, not the model itself. Also it's difficult to know when you haven't seen the doll in person. If I had to meet my dolls before buying them, I would still wait as I have unique samples of some molds in France. On the other hand, you can be eaten unexpectedly by something you weren't interested in in the first place.

In the end I don't think anyone should feel guilty or stupid for not loving a doll after getting it 'in hurry'. It's natural and even if it's also disappointing, we know that someone will like the doll better. Not to mention that the simple idea of wishing a new good home is a proof of care...

[kittenish]

I've done it a few times since buying my first doll. I don't know why, I just didn't like them as much as my first.

Though now I've gone and sold my first too!
I know I'll like my next lot though. ^_^

[TammyTammy]

A lot of times the doll looks different in the pictures and when you get him or her home, it's not what you expected. Also things can change in your own personal menagerie. I've sold many of my dolls in the past, like for example, I sold all my 1/6th scale BJDs; they were really lovely, but I decided that they weren't for me. I've also sold some SD size dolls, cause after getting them home I realized that I really didn't like their look, etc., etc... So no guilt necessary; some dolls just need to move on...

[eveshka]

I've only ever rehomed one doll and one head. The head was bought for someone else to purchase from me, and she lost her job and didn't want me to hold on to it for her. (After which, I decided I liked the head, and while I sold the first one... got another of my own shortly after!)

The doll went to my mom's house and just didn't come home.

I'm particular enough before I buy them that I'm happy with them when they come home!

[lachlana]

So far only once with my Supia Roda. I just wasn't meant for girls, and I had really bad timing--I ordered her in lieu of my dream girl, only to then have a shot at my dreamgirl, so I got them both. After several months they arrived within days of one another, my dreamgirl (limhwa) came first and I was just blown away by her--I loved her to bits, and then Roda showed up and I wasn't as inlove with her as I was with the limhwa, and thus the guilt happened. I tried to sell her that night, but I felt too bad, so I hung onto her and paid her more attention than my limhwa to see if we could bond, or I could make up for it--but it wasn't meant to be. Luckily a good frined of mine fell for her and bought her and now I think I love her even more that she's not living with me *lol* What eneded up happening tho, is that because I shoved off my limhwa, when I tried to go back to her, the thrill was gone. All the plans and stuff I had ready for her just didn't do it anymore, and she sort of laid around doing nothing. It was months later I decided to repaint her on a whim. It was cool and different and livened her up but I realized the faceup I gave her was so very far from the character she was. So I wiped it and tried again and she came out looking so terribly different from my original vision of her I just could have never predicted it if I tried. But it drew me in and I've been happy with her since then :) We're getting along much better, tho sometimes I do miss her original look, I know I can always paint her again if it comes to that. But yeah man, moral - no more girls for me *LOL*!

I do however know the guilty-selling-doll syndrome. It was a real downer, but in the end I know deep down Roda wasn't for me, and letting her go was the best thing I could have done for both of us ^^

[julia]

I can also be described as having a revolving door at my house. I've now seen a number of sculpts from a variety of companies. I've narrowed down what I like and try to refrain from impulse buying.

There are a couple of sculpts that I've bought, sold, bought and sold again. I really like the Volks Lucas sculpt, but have never managed to keep one around and I've just recently re-bought Kurumi.

I'm finding that there are certain sculpts that I like very much, that I don't need to own since I can obtain enjoyment from viewing the owner photos.

[Boule de poils]

It happened to me very recently. I purchased a Peak's Woods Morimoth this summer, after debating for weeks whether I should get her or not, but somehow she grew out of me while I was waiting to receive her. So I parted with her as soon as I got her :/

However, I do not feel guilty at all about selling dolls that I no longer like ^^

[Lisa]

calling them by "he" and "she" and using phrases like "sold them" and "the head went there the body went there" ..=v= am I the only one who find this slightly disturbing? haha

[hiritai]

This is why I have bought a MNF Shiwoo and then sold said MNF Shiwoo. I had a terrible guilt trip, because so many people seemed to like him and kept telling me not to. I just don't work with minis. Except Puffin, he's different.
I am so fickle. I don't even have my first doll anymore XD

[kirane]

I'm finding that there are certain sculpts that I like very much, that I don't need to own since I can obtain enjoyment from viewing the owner photos.

This is so true... I try to make that difference, sometimes fail and sometimes win. I know I like some dolls because of someone's work, and in this case I know it's worhtless to buy. The difference between a character and a shell, in a way.

[bagofspiders]

I was really crazy about "the chase" for a long time...had to save for this doll, had to save for that doll...I was falling in and out of doll-love 12 times a day! But in the end, the money I'd save would go to other BJD and eventually I didn't even really think of the ones that never were. I felt quite guilty about selling my first doll, but more because people seemed to want me to keep her more than I wanted to keep her. In the end I think it was for the best. She was mostly just sitting here for over two years, so I don't think it was all that fickle in the end to re-home her.

[elfinder]

Yeah had things like this happen. Most notable was when I went and got a Byakuren from VOlks. He'd always been a dream doll of mine, one I adored and had seen in person. But once he came home......it just wasn't working. First I couldn't get over the non gender. In the end I missed my SD10 Nono far too much. So I ended up trading the Byakuren for a Nono and that worked out good!

[Annie]

I have three dolls right now with two on the way. But I've owned a total of 7 so far, because I buy them and think I'll like them and then it doesn't click for some reason. I've figured out by now that if I open the box and there's no sense of instant adoration it won't work out. I had that with Sera when she was bald and blank, and Leo and Kohl when they both arrived as only heads. I still get urges all the time to buy more dolls, there are so many gorgeous ones out there, but I'm resisting on almost all of them. I'm trying to get out of debt, not deeper in :)

I've been teased about my 'out the door policy' but if the doll isn't right for me I'd rather let someone who'll love them get them and put the money towards finding another doll.

[Lady Brick]

I've sold... a lot of dolls :sweat One of the biggest issues I've had is owning dolls that just look wrong together. I can't do it. There's also been issues like having problems with the sculpt, the size, something that would work better coming along, etc. I've generally stopped feeling bad about selling dolls, as I know (or hope) they'll end up with someone who will appreciate them more than I do/can.

[Pooki]

I think that you should feel free to do whatever you want to with your own stuff---including dolls. I know that many people see dolls as more than just "stuff", but you know what I mean.

I don't think you're at all fickle on the basis of what you wrote, but I have to admit, when I see someone buying and turning around and reselling right away AND doing it over and over, I start to wonder why they do it. Not that this applies to what you wrote about yourself, just thinking in general. I just wonder why some people rush to buy such expensive dolls only to sell some of them before they arrive....but then, I also get the idea that sometimes you just don't really know a doll until you have the doll in hand because photos don't always accurately represent the doll. A friend of mine purchased a doll, based on online photos from the store website, but when she arrived she looked completely different because her faceup was somewhat different and with totally different colors. So things like that make a difference, but you wouldn't know until you had the doll in hand.

[Em]

My first doll was a CH Choa, Danae, she was one of the first face molds I feel in love with. However, after I bought my FCS F-16 Raiden the limitations of the CH body mold began to really irritate me (this was the CH v.1 body). After a lot of Dolly angsting ;) I decided to replace Danae's 'Shell' So I sold the CH Choa to help fund her new body a Volks Emma. So I can completely understand selling dolls and also 2nd guessing your bjd purchases. I wouldn't dream of selling the dolls I have now, I feel the sculpts match their characters perfectly :kisses

[Lolly]

Owner pics have sold me many times. I am trying to better about y buying and WAIT, but that has its bad points too, as usually if the doll is nicer than the company pics, you end up paying more. Conversely if the company pics are great but the doll is not what you envisioned you end up a revolving door.

[ravendolls]

An important consideration for me with these dolls is how expensive they are.
Call me fickle if you like, but I'm not keeping a 300-1K doll if I'm not 300-1K in love with it.

[miss sha]

I've had this happen A LOT. I went through seven dolls in about a year when I first joined the hobby, and it was ultimately the reason why I left for six months. Now that I've come back, I've done a bit of buying and selling, and I've finally come to own a doll that I'm convinced will NEVER leave my hands. Since that, though, I bought a Baha that I'm just not happy with. I think they're ADORABLE dolls and I squee over every picture I've seen of them, but owning one just isn't something for me. There's not much you can customize about them without doing some heavy duty full-body painting. I feel really awful about it, because she'll be the first doll I'm selling since buying Riley, but... since I bought the Baha on credit I really shouldn't have gotten her to begin with. I actually think I never would have bought a Baha at all if I hadn't impulse-purchased her like I did.

[Panoptes]

This syndrome happens to me all the time, which is such a shame. I fell in love with dolls on DoA or on YJA, I got the dolls with grand plans and no, they are not working out. I usually keep the dolls dusted for a year or so and finally I will have to let go. I am working very hard to get a concrete doll family by the end of the year, and please wish me luck.

[kawaii_mon]

I'm the kind of person who hates to get rid of anything I don't like, and i'm talking about all of my possessions not just dolls. Because of this, I tend to have a cooling off period before buying a doll. Some dolls I was crazy about I look back at and realise I wouldn't have liked them afterall.

[rattimoth]

yeah... did that.. *sigh*

Drooled over a limited boy.. STALKED the site... dreamed about him.. begged in the streets for money (well, not quite that desperate, but it was the year when the only gift I asked for was cash)

Got him, loved him, adored him! didn't touch him hardly at all... he sat there looking all beautiful, and hardly ever got his picture taken

Sold him.. purchased a boy on a whim... LOVE him.. he is taken everywhere, has five different outfits I have made.. take more photos of him than anyone else...

meh.. I give up.

Seek peace

Carol

[Bliss]

I have had this a couple of times =_=...it costs me more than just guilt.
I try not to give in to these kind of feelings but it's so difficult when I see something cute XD!

[Stormlight]

Oh yes, I'm guilty of buying on a whim and then selling again. :oops

I'd bought a Soom mini gem Uyoo Elf on a whim sometime last year. She was my first tiny, and she was so pretty and sweet, and I loved her, but after the initial introduction shoot and a week or two of playing dress-up with her, she just sort of sat off by herself while I took pics of everyone else. She just didn't fit in at all with the rest of my gang, proportion-wise or story-wise, so she ended up being completely ignored. After a month or two of angsting, I finally decided to sell her to someone who appreciated her much more, and then used the money to buy a minifee Shiwoo, instead, whom I'd been lusting over for awhile, and who fits in very well with the other dolls and their story.

I thought after that, I wouldn't go for anymore tinies, but then Bambicrony came out with the colored elves, and so I just HAD to get myself a slate gray Pepe elf, on the knowledge that she might end up being ignored, as well, but figuring I'd be able to sell her pretty easily if I absolutely had to. I was willing to take the chance because she just seemed like a very young child, as opposed to a very tiny adult, and I was right. Before she'd even arrived I had her name figured out (the Jinxed Cricket), and had a nice little place worked out in my gang's overall story. And she looks like a four-year-old standing beside my Kid Delfs, who are both eight, so she doesn't look weird with them or the SDs, proportion-wise.

The only other doll I sold was my Jareth (a CP Moon), but that was only due to me needing money for financial issues (which are thankfully resolved now). He was the only doll out of all 11 of them that I could even consider parting with, simply because he wasn't "my" character (Jareth the Goblin King is from the movie, Labyrinth). I've invested too much creative spirit into the rest of my gang, so I feel in some way they're a part of me. It'd be kind of like selling one of my cats or birds, or kids if I had any. I was sorry to see Jareth go, but he'll be easy enough to replace in the future, if I ever decide to do so.

If it ever comes down to me needing extra money, I'd probably end up selling my entire DVD and anime collection, all of my books, my television and video games, or everything else I own before ever parting with one of my dolls.

[VinylFaerie]

I scrimped and wiggled my way into a Nanuri 07 because it was so beautiful, but the minute I saw it IRL, I knew it wasn't staying here. Thankfully, that's the only doll I've ever sold and now I feel dumb because I'll have to buy another. I got that head out of here so quick after discovering it wasn't the character I wanted it to be that I never realized that it was perfect for another character until it was gone. :(

[lin]

I've bought and sold bunches of dolls. Sometimes they just don't work out for me after I have them for a while, or I see a new one that is similar to one that I have but like a lot better. I'm fickle too, but I like to think of it as fine-tuning my collection.

[FunnyLori]

I have a huge wishlist of dolls that I love from afar. I adored a head on ebay, and I ended up bidding way out of my price range to get it. It took me four months to save up and get the body for her, and then I realized that I only liked the girl in the artist's pictures, not the one I had in hand - even though it was the same one, she just wasn't the same for me.

I felt horrible. I had this doll that I hated, and somebody new came pulling on my heart strings. But, I held on to her. I never named her, every wig I got her looked aweful, and I didn't like her proportions for sewing. I ended up missing out on an auction for my grail doll, so I bought two other dolls on the rebound, completely depressed about the doll I lost and the doll I had but hated.

The two new dolls came home and I spent some time bonding with them. It took a while for one(Yuki), while the other was instantaneous (Spork!). But, I still didn't have my grail doll, and that ugly girl was sitting in a box. I finally gave up and put her body up for sale so that I could put a down payment on my grail doll almost ten months after buying the head.

Now my grail is home, and I am very happy with him. But I still feel guilty about the head that I only liked from afar. She won't sell on ebay, and just sits on one of my paint brushes on my desk. Staring at me. She mocks me every day.

[kiradyn]

it's defiitely happened in the sense that i'd spout non-stop rambles of how ______ sculpt would be PERFECT for whatever character and wax poetic about how i was going to get it at so-and-so date and such. and then after awhile, the *3* would wear off and i'd reconsider, or procrastinate the purchase for so long that i'd wonder if i was even serious about getting it (let alone those whom i'd been rambling to).

and sometimes after that has happened, i'd occasionally swing right back into it, regarding the same doll.

for impulse-buy dolls (see elf chiwoo), it's happened in the sense that once i had the doll in my hands and the OMGNEWDOLL thrill wore off, i realized that i didn't/hadn't actually really wanted it. hence my trying to sell it now. ^^;;

[Reshana]

I'm the kind of person who hates to get rid of anything I don't like, and i'm talking about all of my possessions not just dolls. Because of this, I tend to have a cooling off period before buying a doll. Some dolls I was crazy about I look back at and realise I wouldn't have liked them afterall.

Same here. I'll see a doll that I OMGWANT because of the way the owner has him dressed, made up and presented. Then after a few weeks I'll look again and also look at other pictures and see if I still feel the same, and if I want it more than the one I'm saving for now. So far this has really helped me stick to my guns and focus on the next doll on my wishlist instead.

[Captain Schlumpy]

I'm with you on this. I basically have to buy it before I can see if I really like it. This happened with my Shirou and Eun-u. I loved all the owner pics but as soon as I got them in my hands I knew they wouldn't work. I also feel like a revolving door sometimes. I'm just trying to get the "perfect" fit. I wish I could see more in person!

Ummm, since I've been dubbed the "Resin Revolving Door", I can say that this has happened to me a few times.

I blame the relative scarcity of BJD owners in my area.....If I could see the dolls IRL before buying, my choices would involve much less error.
:)

[earthspirits]

This has probably happened to all of us at least once (or twice or...) Well, you get the point! ;) And I think this is because generally we all buy dolls online based on seeing photos (with occasionally being able to see or examine a doll in person) ~ then when the doll finally arrives (perhaps after quite a length of time, if a pre-order item), we may have lost interest, moved on, or somehow the doll, while lovely and still appealing, does not quite meet our personal expectations. It's ok. Better to move the doll quickly on to a loving new home, if they don't quite work for you. None of us have the funds (or space) to keep every cute doll we admire (and sometimes bring home).

hugs, :heart
earthspirits

[augustamethyst]

Yes. Definitely has happened to me before as well. The worst case was probably a Volks MSD Mika. I love love love Mika, but she just didn't fit. She was barely with me a week. Typically though, I have problems getting new boy dolls. They have to fit in with one particular doll and if they don't, they don't come back. (Guess that doll is my resident dollie godfather?)

What's worse is feeling guilty for selling the doll. But if the doll is going to a good home where he/she will be loved, we shouldn't feel bad.

[Chops]

When my first mini arrived I was head over heels in love. I just knew I would never ever sell her. But of course I did.....

I remember reading comments about people saying their bjds didn't "look" right side by side for one reason or another. I couldn't understand what they were saying, how could dolls not look good together?

After getting other "mature minis" my first girl just did not fit! She was slightly bigger, so her clothes were separate, she had a bigger head, so she was the only one that could wear a particular size wig, etc. After buying yet another mature mini, I knew my first had to go. That was it, my heart turned to stone. I packed her up and never looked back.

To this day I am surprised I sold her, how could I fall out of love so easily?

[Rococo]

I always seem to have such grand plans when I buy a doll. *^^* Costumes, sets, photostories... and I have to admit when seeing a really staggeringly talented photographer shoot a beautiful doll (you guys know who you are!) I sometimes feel a strong desire to have that doll and bring beautiful images like that about myself.


Oh, I'm EXACTLY the same way. When I see beautifully photographed dolls, I imagine how wonderful it would be to own them and all of the costumes I'd buy them. Fortunately, a look at my bank account usually brings me back down to reality before I wind up impulse buying them. ;)

[beachgirl]

The revolving door has been spinning at my house lately. I haven't liked several of my recent purchases. Doona Soah was only here for a week before I decided she had to go. Now I just got an AOD MSD boy yesterday, and he needs to go. I had an Orientdoll Ill, that was nice looking, but too short and pin headed to work with my Narae and Unoa Sist. I was hoping the AOD would work with them but he's too big and has a big head, even bigger than my Minifee Lishe. I also got a Bobobie SD girl that needs to go too. I have a new SD boy coming next week; I sure hope I like him! Maybe the others are sending out vibes - no new dolls!

[chibaraki]

I'd been planning for months to get a Lati Red for my Camine girl's boyfriend, and when they released promo photos of Oracle Elf M the faceup was perfect for the character I had in mind. I ordered one, and... it took nearly two months for him to ship. When he got here I was having a rough time anyway, I discovered that... lati reds have TINY heads! And they're much more realistic than DoTs. I hated how they looked together.

When I got my minisup I was incredibly excited and basically didn't put her down for a couple of days... and then I realized that I'd spent about 30 minutes playing with my new Lati Red and then had plopped him down on the bookshelf and ignored him ever since. I realized I'd never been as into the big dolls, and that's why I decided to sell them both.

I am still, though, totally excited about my minisupia, even though she has no faceup and she just got a wig today.

[Arvanah]

Okay I wasn't gonna confess to what a flake I am but since everyone else is coming out with their shame I'll do it too. :dead

My friends hardly take me and my doll interests seriously anymore, that's how often I've done this. It's not just dolls that I do it with. I've always said of myself: "Patience is a virtue.... that I don't have" Whatever it may be, if an idea pops into my head, I HAVE to do it right that very minute. I can't wait, I can't reason it through. I never think about the dolls I'm going to buy very long before I buy them, and as a result I have sold over 20 dolls so far, and am not even entirely confident that the ones I have now will survive. I mean, I loved my Ttory Elf girl to death for two years, until I started seeing the mature minis and fell in love with my Shushu Elf for both the size and the maturity. Some dolls that I've sold I loved but I just found that a large number of 60cm dolls was very overwhelming for me. For a little while I even swore off 60cm dolls, but I think now that I've had my break from them I'd like to have a couple, and my two most important characters wouldn't really be well-suited to minis, even the mature ones.

I think the biggest disaster was in my last endeavor to make an entire modern, doll photostory-based manga with all new characters made only for the dolls. After I sold off all my big dolls, I thought I wanted to stop trying to make my D&D story characters as dolls because of how big the cast was and how many I kept trying to buy. So the little manga came along with about eight or so characters. It was fun, and cute, and a lot of people liked it, but I really wasn't getting into it. It was just another one of my bright ideas that I flung myself headfirst into and then decided it wasn't fun halfway through, I wanted my fantasy characters back instead. Some of the dolls I'd barely had for three weeks... the whole process of getting them took about four months, and now they're all gone. After selling off two large groups of dolls, I almost gave up the whole hobby in frustration with myself. But I calmed down, and I limited myself to just the two main females from my D&D story.

Even now, only a few days ago I insisted I was done. The tinies were sort of impulsive but at the same time they've always haunted me, so I just gave in on both of them despite my worries that I'll flake on the poor dears given some time. I'm really determined to stop my ridiculous turnover rate though. And for the entire three years I've been in this hobby, the two characters that meant the most to me that I wanted dolls of, have YET to be made. I'm in the progress of selling off a lot of things I don't need that seem to be where I squandered all my profits from selling the other dolls, and I plan to get those last two characters. But I'm really, really forcing myself to THINK on the molds this time around.

So yeah, I hear you. Being a flake kinda sucks... :wahwah

[Lishe]

This happens to me all the time. It use to make me feel guilty, but then I got over it. Afterall, these dolls cost too much money to not be 100% in love with them!

Lishe

[kboyd912]

Yes, I got into this hobby a little too quickly, and bought more than one doll that were too similar to each other - for me personally, that was a mistake, because I don't have a lot of spare room for my collection. I'm much happier now that I've sent them to new homes, and only have one in each size I wanted to have. I think tastes evolve and we've all been guilty of buying something and then saying "why did I do that!!!".

[budah]

I'm going through this right now. Not sure I'm a "revolving door" but I am revolving/evolving. I have four dolls now, but I just sold one, a Camine, and bought a MNF Shiwoo. Cami wasn't realistic enough for me --not that Shiwoo is :sweat .

Shiwoo was an impulse buy, but he's a mold I've wanted before but decided against because I didn't want to spend the money. Fortunately, he was purchased second hand and at a good deal.

I never thought I would sell a doll but I swore my limit is five, and with Shiwoo on the way and plans for an F-16... someone had to leave.

Good luck in your new home Cami! :kisses

[Uneide]

is my Fairy Warrior, by Souldoll.

... deathly. envy. I still lust after that doll.

*cough* anyhow!

I have. A couple of times, actually - and both with fullset dolls. I think for me its been that I -always- try to get a doll to represent one of my chars.. and with the fullsets i've found that they're just... well, characters onto themselves. I just don't feel like I can transform them into something else -- kinda like trying to stuff a round peg into a square hole. ^_^;;

[monkeytailz]

I've only sold one doll so far. I had to have her (Soom Uyoo). I thought having a Barbie sized ABJD would be awesome and I already had tons of stuff for her. Well, she arrived and I dressed her, took a few pictures, and then she just sat for months. She really didn't fit in with my bigger dolls and just putting her in Barbie stuff wasn't nearly as much fun as I thought it would be. A lot of the fun for me is making new stuff specifically for each one of my dolls. So, I sold her and she went to a really good home where I still get to see her, occasionally :)

[Meguone]

I've done this several times also. Gotten a doll or two for a certain character that I thought would work out then they just sit doing nothing. Sold them to get the exact one I want or get the props/clothing/etc. for the rest. I've sold several that I have gotten for one thing or another, and then just never bonding later.

[Kaye]

I buy and resell all the time. I don't feel guilty about it because I only want to keep dolls I really love and sometimes I love them in the pics (often drool for months before I buy) but when I actually have them I just don't bond with them so I figure it's best to sell them to someone who will love and treasure them.
:)
Kaye

[Kiyono]

I was lucky that when I got into the hobby I was told repeatedly "WAIT for the one!" I was sold on my first doll (Ttory) after playing with another at a convention, and he is still with me and still my favorite.

I have had a few others come and go for various reasons, and definately felt bad about selling a few. I have to struggle to avoid impulse buying.

I have friends who go through dolls, but they have a core "crew" that stays. It doesn't really bother me - I get to see a lot of great dolls in person that way. But then, I see them get the doll, try different looks on the doll, bring them to meets, etc, to see if they will work out. So I know they aren't just getting dolls and turning them over, I see the effort to make them work.

[Catdancer]

Yes it has happened to me, I fell in love with a doll and wanted to get it at some point then on a market place one became available with a faceup I just loved, so I bought the doll, very much out of my price range and loved her when she got here, but then I am not sure if I felt guilty for spending so much or if it was just an infatuation with the mold but I didn't have her very long and sold her.

[Zozolala]

It takes me a lot of time to decide on getting a new doll.. even until the attraction fades away :) - which is a good thing, I guess.

I've only sold one doll, and it was sad to realize I made a mistake. I adored her face, but I was very disappointed about her proportions (massive thighs, tiny feet, unrealistic hands, bad poseability, and so on), and after a while it became such an issue that she had to go. She just wasn't right for me.

[Vega]

This is why I haven't bought any of the adorable tinies I keep seeing. They are so cute, but I'm terrified that if I bought one I wouldn't know what to do with it and that I wouldn't be able to bond with the doll.

This is pretty much my setiment exactly. I would *love* a tiny, but my whole family are 60cm boys and I worry that it wouldn't fit in, so to speak.
-V

[Wee_Little_Faerie]

*raises hand*

Another revolving door here... but I 100% agree with what ravendolls said, if I'm not $300-$1K in love with it, it's going to go.

I have the opposite problem with my Baha... I bought it on impulse because it was a great deal... and even as I was paying I was thinking "What the hell did I just do.... creepy little kitty... ugh"... and then it got here... and I just can't get rid of it. I've said to it several times "I'm getting rid of you!" but then it looks so sad and pathetic that, despite it being a resin doll and not caring either way... I find myself having to apologize! The dumb little Baha is sticking around. LOL!

[silk]

I thought I had found the sculpt that was going to be my character Kayne, my first doll, Iplehouse Soo Ri. It took me months before I could buy him and everytime I saw him I knew that he was ít.
And then he got out of the box and he was perfect. Until I wanted to pose him and realized that I missed a joint in the back, so he was always really stiff looking. And in the pictures I took there were a few things in his face that kept bugging me. And then the moment came that Lone Sheep bought her Elfdoll K-SS and instantly I thought 'that's Kayne.. thát's his face'. So, the Soo Ri had to go.

I've never felt guilty, the moment I posted a thread in the marketplace he wasn't even Kayne anymore, just some doll. After owning him for a year and a half I kind of expected more drama. But it didn't, so I guess I made the right choice then.

[Paul_Julian]

Sometimes it's better to sell the doll to a new loving home ...:)

[lin]

When I first got into this hobby, I was very enthusiastic and bought a whole bunch of dolls. After a year or two, I settled down and realized that I was still crazy about only one or two of them, so I sold the ones I never played with. I have a nice collection now, I think, and can't imagine selling any of them.

[junoboy]

I have this happen alot.. I get into my tinies and want more friends for them, then back to the bigger dolls to dress up and change.. Then those Yo and Petite size dolls grow on me..Now with these Pipos Kitties, and that stinkin little pig from Elfdoll, it seems a whole other type of doll to play with.. I have sold alot more this year than I thought I ever would, as there is only so many hours in the day to devote to playing..

so yes, I am Ms Fickelina too!

[redfish]

I had that happen to me once. There was a customhouse unique that I absolutely fell in love with, and I would go and look at pictures over and over all day for several weeks, until finally I gave in and bought her. I was so excited for her to arrive, but when the postman came to my door that day and I opened the box I was completely disappointed. I put her back in the box and I never opened it again until I sold her shortly afterwards.

It's not that she wasn't beautiful, she was! But I was intimidated by her size, and she just looks so different in person than I had thought in my mind :/

Ever since then I actually spent time thinking about wether I really wanted a certain doll or not, and thinking about how that mold would work in my house. I havn't bought one I wasn't happy with ever since :D

I did have to sell my next two dolls about a year ago though, a Lati Miel and CH Sariel due to emergency money situation. But, I absolutely loved them and took photos of them all the time. I didn't want to sell them, but I didn't have a choice in the matter at the time. They were there and I knew I could get good money from them, so they had to go. Whenever I get some spare cash I will buy them back someday T_T I'm actually hoping my next Sariel will be tan, since i've taken a fancy to tan dolls over the past year or so :3

[bunnyscotch]

I can see how this could happen...if any dolls don't quite grab me when I first get them, I hide them away and pull them out from time to time and then something will just click and I figure out what it is they will give to me. I haven't sold any out of non-love...because most of them only increase in value and I am buying them as an investment as well...for when I am too old to play with them. (Like 80 or something!)

[TabletopPhantom]

I don't think anyone should feel guilty about re-selling a doll. Although I completely understand the sentiment and I too would feel guilty, in all rationality it shouldn't be something that haunts us. Dolls are difficult, because good photographs and different face-ups can change a doll so much. I've been to Sato several times and visited the doll museum there where they have every Volks doll ever released on display. You can see first-hand how different dolls look in photos from how they look in person and on more than one occasion I've been disappointed in what I've seen.

Not to mention when you start mixing different brands and sizes together in an attempt to form a cohesive set of characters.

Even dolls of the same size and brand can look odd together. For instance I once thought that Heath would be a good companion for my F-16 but when I saw them together they looked so different! Even though they are both SD13 boys, the smaller and mature look of Heath's head made Lawrence look like a little boy. But this is something I would never have known unless I had seen them together in person. I understand the trial and error process at work: you see a doll, fall in love, bring him home but upon seeing him in person you realize he is not what you thought or he doesn't work well with the rest of your dolls, and so you must sell him.

Anyway, it's all very understandable and I don't think having a few dolls and re-selling them makes you fickle!

[Catdancer]

yeah Ihave jumped when I shouldn't have....and now I have one coming today a Tan Sprite, that I think I may have jumped too quickly..because now I have my heart set on another. I do hope I like her, but if not, I will be selling her....I am just too fickle i guess.

[DestroymyRemains]

Yay for not being another person who has a "revolving door" I have found that CP boys stay longest in my house. I'm glad to see that Im not the only person with "Revolving' door syndrome.

sometimes molds just don't fit in D; and Id much rather find them a home where someone will love them instead of gathering dust at my house.

[blackbox]

I keep lusting for an Elfdoll Bong.... but I'm afraid when she gets here she would get lost in the shuffle. Too tiny and fragile.....So I just continue the lust.

[Merle]

I tend to keep my dolls for too long. I am now selling most of my fashion dolls on Ebay and am now seeing if I can sell some of the porcelain ones too. However, all my BJDs are really new to me. I mean they aren't more than a few years old. I don't see myself selling them but I don't know what the future will bring.

If you want to sell a doll you got enabled to buy to get one you had wanted for quite sometime I don't find that to be a problem. I notice myself getting caught up in the enabling thing a lot too.

[Kahli]

Am I the only one who has been branded 'Ficklina' by her friends? Has anyone else had this happen to them, especially the feeling guilty part? I mean, it seems silly to feel guilty about selling a doll, but I did--almost afraid of my friends judging me for buying her, then getting rid of her.


Well, Ficklina--- LOL! no, it isn't just you. I have to box them up to be able to sell one. When those big, sad eyes aren't staring at me as though to say "why me? why are you selling ME? aren't I cute enough????" :wahwah then I don't feel bad at all. but I'm fairly heartless and forgetful, so that could be why. :p

[SapphireMusings]

You shouldn't feel guilty about selling a doll. After all, they are just dolls! I did have this happen to me once...back when my friend (also into BJDs) and I had just one doll each, I decided I didn't like mine as much as I used to and wanted to sell it. My friend and family members made me feel terrible for it, saying I shouldn't because it was my first doll, etc.

I don't see the point of keeping a doll I don't like, so I sold it, bought one I loved, and I'm much happier for it.

[violetpie]

I've done it, for sure. Not with the tinies, but with a doll I knew at the time wasn't going to be a good fit with my others. I just had to have her, and she was readily available. It was my Soah. I had a good time with her, and she is sooo gorgeous, but I realized after a bunch of shoots, I like quirkier faces. But I'd seen so many great shots of other people's great Soahs...live and learn, and yes...they are DOLLS, I guess...

[ArcaneMuse]

I know I'm fickle. That's why I wait, sometimes months, before purchasing a doll I've been eyeing. I haven't sold one, yet, doing it that way. But believe me, it's hard controlling my itchy finger that just wants to click "add to cart".

[FunnyLori]

I've done it again... I bought a Jace body because it looked so darned hot in photos. I even used up my dolly savings to get it. Then once it came home I realized it was not at all what I wanted. So big, but very much a silent muscular type. I wanted a body that would sing to me!

The body was sold, but I had to take a hit in the price. Now I'm off trying to regain my savings and buy a Standard Mir to go with my Rem Head.

[PawPaw]

I did the same thing once or twice. After that, I learned my lesson on impulse buys! xD It's one thing to buy a shirt or something on impulse, but I've learned that BJD's are just too expensive to buy when you're not 100% sure you want them.

[H3LL_KaT]

When the little orientdoll tinies came out, after seeing all the adorable pics, I had to have one. After awhile I knew it wasnt for me but felt guilty so instead of selling him I gave him to my daughter who loves him.

[glass_mountain]

This feels a bit like AlAnon...

I am Jessica and I am a member of the Revolving Doll Society!

Someone coined that phrase a long time ago on the old Den of Angels.

These days, after reading the loong thread about price policing and scalping, it makes me anxious...but I regularly sell dolls as, in general, that's my only source of funds to buy other dolls.

There are a lot of dolls I regret selling. But many have come home and just haven't felt right, like the stunning Cocori - and I so much wanted a Doll of Colour!

I even had SA Valentino Bermann back in the day and sold him on. I found that (for me) his head looked too small for his body. I was hoping to get an open-eyed Bermann later on and had no idea that they would become so scarce.

What troubles me is that people can accuse you of flipping if you pass on a doll too quickly...but in my experience it usually isn't that long before you realise you've made a mistake.

[Nineivre]

the global post systems sure makes their bucks on ficklers like us ._.; i looked forward to my lati coco so much, but when she came... i was just... bleh ><

[Jun]

I think it's just too hard and long a process for me to save up for a new doll that I just simply can't afford to be fickle. I also have the time to make sure that I want THIS doll 100% while saving, since it takes so long...

[captainkyo]

Ive done this with all my old dolls xD.

Bought them.. had em for a bit.. sold em.
cuz they didnt work out. all total impulse buys.

not saying i didnt love em.. they just didnt fit.
that and also my tastes changed rapidly. xD

I think the shortest i had a doll was a week xD.
well two weeks, with the time she was forsale. xD

[Sameyu]

Man, I sure wish I have the money to be THAT fickle.

[april]

I haven't sold a doll yet... I've purchased a few that I didn't really need--or needed less than others, but so far I haven't felt like selling them in order to get others... I guess I just become easily attached! And fortunately the latest dolls out there haven't made me want to sell any of my present dolls in order to more easily accommodate them.

[Mekou]

I don't think it's a terrible thing to sell a doll if you feel guilty for having it and aren't giving it any attention. ^^ I see it as passing the doll to someone who will love it more than you ever could.

My first doll was Mythdoll Leroi Snow I had bought from a close friend. I bonded with me fairly well, and I loved havin her. Until, I got my dream doll. A DOC Bee-a. Only a couple weeks had gone by, but I found myself not attached to my Mythdoll girl anymore. So, I decided to sell her.

And now, she (well, she's a he now XD) has gone to an owner who LOVES her. So it all turned out awesome in the end. ^___^

[Lellytots]

This is exactly how I feel. I dont know anyone else in my area that owns resin dolls and I have found that I think a doll will really fit in with the rest of my dolls and then once theyre here I have found that they just didnt work. I do feel bad but when someone buys them and the doll has arrived and they are so happy having them join my family I feel alot better.

[Flying Carrot]

I did this with a DZ BB Tiny Ani. I loved her when I saw her pictures, got her home, made some clothes for her, and then she just sat. I felt so guilty selling her, I really did, but I just didn't play with her like I do my other dolls. It was the right thing to do.

[marsh]

I've sold very few dolls, but one notable occasion was my Wishel. My local doll gang did a group order and I got swept up in all the excitement. The egg, the cute, random factor. It was like an expensive capsule toy! When the thing arrived it was indeed cute, but it wasn't SOMEONE. It was just this cute little .. thing. There was no spark. I sold it the next day for what I paid and I haven't regretted selling for a minute.

[ocean-girl]

There was one doll...a cherish doll Alley...I bought very impulsively after seeing some pics...but when she arrived she was much bigger than I expected and just didn't really click with me...I sold her the next day. I generally try to be more careful!!!

[Patrice]

When I got hooked by BJD's, I thought nothing of selling off my fashion dolls even my repaint collection. There has been only one BJD that I haven't bonded with. That was my Soah. I still can't figure out why. She was a beautiful doll and had a gorgeous faceup but no matter how I tried she just didn't do it for me.

[Honooko]

I saved up and bought my dear, dear Ciel Honami from Musedoll. I really was in love with that girl; she was BEAUTIFUL.

But. I kind of... just sat her on the shelf and let her be beautiful. My boys I would carry around, sit in my lap, take to school or work with me. But Honami just sat there, looking pretty. I loved her to bits and pieces, but I have photographs of her being beautiful; I wasn't giving her the love she deserved. I sold her, and felt really sick everytime I thought about it, but I did it.

I miss her sometimes, but that's what my pictures are for. She's with someone who loves her now!

[kathrynmary]

yes i am quilty of that. i have had it happen once but i kept the doll in its original box and just waited to see if i would change my mind. i didnt and ended up selling. i try hard to make sure im not impulse buying but sometimes once you get the doll home it just doesnt work. i have only had this happen once but im newish to dolls and i can tell ya i was a bit bummed at being so fickle for no real reason....

[FunnyLori]

So I'm more guilty than I ever thought I was before. I went out of my way to get Bambicrony Sisley and Lotti elves around what was it October last year. I wanted them SOOOO BAD. I ran group orders, and then my orders were so huge I split it in half and got two Lotti heads, one of which I raffled off. Then I sold the elf body my Sisley came with, because I really could not afford them to begin with. A few months later Bambicrony said that they were gonna stop carrying the old snow skin colored bodies, so I flipped and bought bodies for my heads.

Well... All that sitting around... I really didn't bond with them at all. Lotti kept trying to poke my eyes out. And I lent the Sisley to someone I had only met twice so that she could sew clothes for it. Sisley was gone for a month. When I realized that I felt bad for NOT missing her, I just new it was the end.

I sold them both. I really adore the eyes and ears on the Sisley... But they just don't hold the same charm for me as the colored elves do.

[Bobster]

The exact thing has not happened to me yet. The closest thing so far was on the purchase of Mimi13. When she came, I did not like her at all. The photos on the Volks web site seemed so different from what came in the box. She sat in the box for some time after her arrival. I finally noticed 2 things about her that were bothering me. First was the Pupil symmetry issue, I posted about a while back in another thread. Second was the hair she came with. I like the hair she came with, but in a pony tail more than over the shoulders. I am thinking about giving her a cut to make it more to my liking as well. Originally I did not like the face up, but it has grown on me over time. I have actually delayed a planned purchase in January to avoid having one; I might not keep out or play with. Right now not having the accessories is not a bother to me. I want some things, but that is not an influence to keeping them for me.

Bobby

[verilens]

*raises hand* Me!
For lots of reasons. When I had four dolls, I simply couldn't afford to buy clothes, wigs, etc. for four different sized dolls.

So I downsized to one boy doll I thought I'd never part with. But now I've decided to sell him and get a girl doll instead!

In my opinion, no one can tell the future, so you may love a doll at first sight, but a few weeks, months, or even years later...your tastes could change, or you might realize that the doll just doesn't fit in with your dolly goals anymore.

I tend to be the kind of person who likes to throw out the old and bring in the new from time to time...if it applies to the rest of my life, then there's no reason why it shouldn't apply to dolls!

[mxiong]

I've sold two dolls, it's kinda sad. My boyfriend made the selling of my most recent doll worse when he talked to her and said that I don't love her anymore. And this is he ONLY time that he has ever talked to my dolls. He just wanted to make me feel bad for being a doll lover/owner. I originally got her because I saw owner pics of her that I loved, but I never got her face-up done or her clothes made. Her body sculpt I didn't care for in real life, which made it worse. Her resin was shiny and Mr. Super Clear only flaked off. So I just didn't bond at all after I was so thrilled to see her for sale.

[aernath]

I fell in love with the DIM Real Rain head that came with the limited edition Rain doll only.
Finally after months of longing... maybe it was a year?, I got the chance to get one on layaway. Three months of paying... finally got him home and he just.... wasn't at all what I expected. I'd even ponied up for the default faceup because I loved it in the promo pictures.
The resin was incredibly pink, and that just startled the heck out of me. But then the faceup not being like the pictures... welll, it was downhill after that.
I have worked with him for quite some months now, changing wigs and eyes and faceups, but have finally given up the fight. I'm hoping someone else can love him, and he's up for sale. :(
Feeling guilty? Even after all the work I put into trying to find a way to love him... yeah.
But it's gotten to the point where he's just more frustration than joy to have around. So... it's time.

My friends haven't called me fickle yet, but that might just be fear of me thwacking them if they did. ;)

[starrybright]

I saw Mythdoll Yue on the Mythdoll website, and thought she was GORGEOUS. Bought her right away, and started my long wait. They said to give them 4 weeks. I did that.. Then another 4 weeks... then another 2 weeks... and I kept emailing them to get in touch with no reply. Eventually they did send her to me, but I kept thinking I'd lost my money and by the time she arrived although she had appology gifts of extra hands, a wig, and some shoes, I no longer wanted her because I got so worked up. I really thought she was pretty, but then noticed things about her I didn't like. I tried to bond with her but it just wasn't happening, so I sold her about 8 months after she came to my house.

I got my money back from the sale thankfully and went on to buy a doll body for a 60cm girl with the funds. Do I regret it? No, not really. I do wonder if I would have felt differently about her if I had not had all the trouble with Mythdoll.

[Aquido]

OMG.. lol no. My dollie friends have all branded me as fickle, and the general rule is 3 mothes. If the doll makes it past 3 monthes, then they are a permanent fixture. But half the time, they don't make it that long. Sometimes, i think we love what others have done to dolls, and think that we can do something just as cool, or unique, and then find that they really don't fit.

[AuraFae]

I am so hoping this does not happen to me! i am just about to order my first doll (a dollsoom aren) and due to monetary restrictions she will be the only doll I have for quite some time. I am really am hoping i adore her.

[Amet]

I'm trying really hard not to be that "revolving door" person who sells every other doll they buy three days later, because it's way too stressful to have to sell a doll for me. I kept the first doll I bought for 6 months trying to bond with him even though he was totally wrong for me before I could bring myself to sell him, and since then I've been trying to pay attention to my propensities in the hobby so that it doesn't happen again. We've only sold 1 other doll since then, and I think that was a matter of my pretending not to know I couldn't deal with a 60+ cm doll because I fell in love with a head mold ending in the way I should really have known it was going to. XD;;;

[AmysMom]

Wow, I know this is an older thread but it really spoke to me on so many levels. I collect other dolls too and with my other dolls I have the same trouble having grabby hands and wishing I could see the dolls in person first. I had no idea other people had the same issues.

With these dolls, so far I am only into the tinies probably because I have small children at home and because my dd is slightly afraid of the bigger ones. So that really restricts my buying option. Thank goodness!

I've seen some really cute pictures with the bigger, more mature doll holding the tiny as if it was her sister or baby... there is an idea for those of you who like the look of the tiny but feel it won't fit in with your group. Or you could just do two different groups! LOL!

Amy's Mom

[Kalani]

some of those smaller dolls cost as much as the bigger ones :D (my Unoa mocha was an equal trade for my Miyu...and I have seen the regular Unoas go for alot more)

[Aussie grrrl]

I am felling a little this way at the moment as I have kept 2 of my dolls for less than a year before selling them, and I have only just bought an Alain head and I am already considering selling him.
I wouldn't really consider it "fickle" though. The major drawback of this hobby is that you don't get to see the product before buying. Often a doll is purchased with one thing in mind and they end up being so completely different to what was expected. There are just so many beautiful moulds out there that it is hard to choose just which ones are right!:)

[Phantom Twilight]

If I could see the dolls IRL before buying, my choices would involve much less error.
:)

I couldn't agree more. I've often lamented my lack of opportunities to see and hold the dolls in question before making the decision to buy. At the moment I am searching for a doll(actually a couple) which is no longer for sale by the company and I'm terrified that it won't be what I expect. I'd love to see one first. That would be wonderful:nod

[asecondbreath]

I've been fickle in respect to my initial reaction to a couple of dolls (that I've not bought)...but, I've waited, rather than acted on my impulse and the fleeting adoration that I had for them, passed. I can see how, if someone tends to be extremely impulsive...it would be really easy to live to regret the purchase of a particular doll.Considering the price of these dolls...it is not a decision to be entered into haphazardly.
I have the opposite problem...I'm paralyzed with indecision...although I've had the means to get another doll since before Christmas, I'm so afraid of making the wrong choice, I've done NOTHING. Which problem is worse?

[kurisuteru]

I've had this almost happen with nearly every soom doll. The one that won out was Glati (the boy one). I ended up selling him right away though because he wasn't what I was looking for for a character. I'm happy he went to someone who loves him though and has turned him into a great little kid. I've since learned that I'm far more attracted to soom's pictures than their dolls, so I just save the images. However, Skoll did win as well and has been a permanent resident of the doll family, surrounded by all my girls. lol.

[djsiberia]

i had that with my pipos....so i had to re-home him. although he helped me realize i don't think i'm made to have tinies.

[lolkat]

OK, I was all fired up to order my second doll tonight but this thread has me scared. I've been looking at owner pics and waited 4 months since I first saw him...but I've got a really clear vision of how I want to style him and it's quite different to the promo pics. I suppose I won't know until I see him up close.
I wouldn't have a problem selling him in a heartbeat if he's not perfect. I don't think I'd even feel guilty. Just frustrated that I have to start looking again!

[cutup01]

I purchased white skin 2nd kill_u as soon as saw him. Well, he is just floating head right now. I srsly have no idea what to do with him;;; He seems like not fitting my merchen kingdom