Asking and Answering Questions! :) - Page 3

E-Chan · 02-10-2008, 04:57 AM

I apologize in advance for the sheer n00bness of what I am about to say. I am interested in the market for BJD's, specifically the average sales prices after 30-40 years of ownership for a dollfie who has been handled but is in great shape. If I don't have kids to pass my BJD legacy onto, I want to know that Ican make an investment after years of play and fun. Is this possible, or msut the doll be untouched?

Thanks in advance to anyone who cna help me out. \^w^/

rkold · 02-10-2008, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by E-Chan

I apologize in advance for the sheer n00bness of what I am about to say. I am interested in the market for BJD's, specifically the average sales prices after 30-40 years of ownership for a dollfie who has been handled but is in great shape. If I don't have kids to pass my BJD legacy onto, I want to know that Ican make an investment after years of play and fun. Is this possible, or msut the doll be untouched?

Thanks in advance to anyone who cna help me out. \^w^/

Ummm you do realize that the oldest ABJDs that are discussed on this forum are under 10 years old and the majority of doll owners here have had their dolls no longer than 3-4 years. ^^;

No one knows what will happen to the resin over time and personally I don't think there is any collectible that I would ever consider an investment. The market is way to volatile and one never knows what will be valuable (if anything) in the future.

Janne · 02-10-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by E-Chan

I am interested in the market for BJD's, specifically the average sales prices after 30-40 years of ownership for a dollfie who has been handled but is in great shape. If I don't have kids to pass my BJD legacy onto, I want to know that Ican make an investment after years of play and fun. Is this possible, or msut the doll be untouched?

I have to agree with Rkold - I wouldn't get into this hobby as in investment.
The resin is likely to deteriorate to a certain extent even if the doll is untouched, and there's no telling which dolls, if any, will hold their value, much less increase. With new, improved joints and posing coming out all the time, chances are older dolls will only become harder to sell.

The only reason to start into this hobby is to have fun now.

If you have the surplus money to splurge a little on yourself, and you think you'd get happiness from playing with an abjd, then by all means, jump in!

saraquill · 02-12-2008, 08:25 PM

I'm having trouble giving feedback. The form asks for the ad number, but what do you put in if you got your item from the shop section?

Tenere · 02-13-2008, 04:31 AM

Thanks Janne, such a help! you were exactly right

**Karhys** · 02-13-2008, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by saraquill

I'm having trouble giving feedback. The form asks for the ad number, but what do you put in if you got your item from the shop section?

That's unfortunately one of the small problems with having the dual systems, but we're still looking into the best ways to address this. We've thus far asked shops to have an ad in the classifieds that links to their shop thread, so that not only do they get extra exposure but so that also people have a legit ad number with which to leave them feedback.

Check the classifieds to see if the person you bought from does indeed have an ad so that you can utilize that ad number for feedback, and if they don't, ask them if they'd mind creating one so that you can leave them feedback.

mendokusai · 02-17-2008, 10:28 PM

I wanted to suggest a new prefix for thread titles... maybe something like "Fun!" or just along the lines of something like that... for discussion threads that aren't QUITE a discussion, in the user groups. (like threads that ask for people to share interesting/fun pictures of some sort)

**Karhys** · 02-20-2008, 09:12 AM

No problem, that's a great idea.

I've gone ahead and added it! Sorry for the delay in getting it done. Let me know if there's any problems with it!

mkira · 02-22-2008, 07:00 AM

Is any one can tell me the accurate size of Yo-sd rangemaru?
I don't know if i can buy the shoes of other dolls for him

Em · 02-27-2008, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by mkira

Is any one can tell me the accurate size of Yo-sd rangemaru?
I don't know if i can buy the shoes of other dolls for him

Volks: Yo-SD
Height: 26 cm
Eyes: 14-16 mm
Head cir. : 17.5 cm
Bust/Chest: 14.5 cm
Waist: 13 cm
Hip: 15 cm
Across shoulders: 7.5 cm
Arms (w/hands): 9.8 cm
Leg (from hip to foot): 13.5 cm
Front neck to crotch: 10 cm
Foot length: 4 cm

Hope that helps

BunnyChan · 03-14-2008, 09:03 AM

Mods- When will the Blood Related BJDS user group be formed? Its been about 2 months since there were enough people, and I've PMed TWO mods about it. Neither of which have bothered to respond. Its the ONLY group thats waiting to be formed as far as I can see...What's the hold up? Karhys said this would take 'a couple of days' and that was a month ago.

**Karhys** · 03-14-2008, 09:30 AM

I do apologise. It was my responsibility and I'm afraid I dropped the ball on this one.

We had had some other things we were considering in regards to the User Groups, so we had planned to implement them all at once (along with making the Families User Group) but things got in the way and everything got delayed.
However making User Groups is largely my responsibility and having said I would do it, the other admins left it up to me, so it is my fault that getting it done unfortunately got forgotten in the greater scheme of things.

In addition, I'm moving overseas for work in less than two weeks and, as I'm sure you can imagine, I have a lot of things to get done before I go.

I've been trying my best to keep up with forum related duties as much as possible, but it's been a bit hit and miss, and some things have been slipping my mind. That includes your PM from last week and again, getting the User Group created. (Merry did mention your PM from yesterday to me, and I told her I would deal with it.)

I just got in from having run errands all day and I'm quite exhausted, but as soon as I've had something to eat and gotten some energy back, I'll make sure that creating the User Group is my first priority.

ETA: Okay, it's made!

BunnyChan · 03-14-2008, 10:16 AM

Thank you~

Kimber Rose · 06-20-2008, 11:42 PM

Hey, when I view my profile, it no longer has the information for things like Doll Family, "how did you find BJDs?", etc.. All the info is still on the edit profile fields, but it just doesn't show up anywhere once I hit "save."

I hit a few random profiles, including ones that I know had a lot of info listed, and theirs are gone too. The basics, like occupation, location, and birthday are still there, but not the more in depth info.

**Hitasura** · 06-21-2008, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Kimber Rose

Hey, when I view my profile, it no longer has the information for things like Doll Family, "how did you find BJDs?", etc.. All the info is still on the edit profile fields, but it just doesn't show up anywhere once I hit "save."

I hit a few random profiles, including ones that I know had a lot of info listed, and theirs are gone too. The basics, like occupation, location, and birthday are still there, but not the more in depth info.

They're all still there! All that information is just listed under separate tabs now. Look just above the info box an you'll see them- About Me, Dolly Info, Dolly Q&A, etc etc- just click on those to see the details listed. :3

Kimber Rose · 06-21-2008, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitasura

They're all still there! All that information is just listed under separate tabs now. Look just above the info box an you'll see them- About Me, Dolly Info, Dolly Q&A, etc etc- just click on those to see the details listed. :3

Hmm. I'm not seeing any tabs. Sidebars, but no tabs.

**Karhys** · 06-21-2008, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Kimber Rose

Hmm. I'm not seeing any tabs. Sidebars, but no tabs.

Hi Kimber!

Are you using IE? I think most of us admins use FireFox almost exclusively so sometimes when there's an IE problem it takes us awhile to notice it.

The missing tabs in IE thing was a problem in the beta version of vBulletin 3.7.1 that we fixed very early on, but we just upgraded to the Gold version of the software and it looks like it's back again.

If you'll give me a bit of time I'll get it fixed again ASAP.

Sorry for the hassle but thanks for pointing it out -- I never use IE so I'd never have noticed!!

ETA: Okay, the tabs should be working again in all the available forum styles.

Let me know if you have further problems with them!!

Kimber Rose · 06-21-2008, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Karhys

Hi Kimber!

Are you using IE? I think most of us admins use FireFox almost exclusively so sometimes when there's an IE problem it takes us awhile to notice it.

The missing tabs in IE thing was a problem in the beta version of vBulletin 3.7.1 that we fixed very early on, but we just upgraded to the Gold version of the software and it looks like it's back again.

If you'll give me a bit of time I'll get it fixed again ASAP.

Sorry for the hassle but thanks for pointing it out -- I never use IE so I'd never have noticed!!

ETA: Okay, the tabs should be working again in all the available forum styles.

Let me know if you have further problems with them!!

It's fixed! And yeah, I do use IE, so that explains it. ^^

Thanks for fixing it! *hugs*

saraquill · 11-25-2008, 12:53 AM

Lately, when I try to browse the forum, random pages I click on sends me to a white page that says

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forum/showthread.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request"

This is especially common when I try to look at the databases. Is this just me, or has this been a problem for others?

**Karhys** · 11-25-2008, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by saraquill

Lately, when I try to browse the forum, random pages I click on sends me to a white page that says

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forum/showthread.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request"

This is especially common when I try to look at the databases. Is this just me, or has this been a problem for others?

Eek! I'm at work atm but I'll look into this properly when I get home and see what I can figure out!

Could you give me some direct links to pages causing this problem, or is it totally random? Also, if you try refreshing the page, or going back and clicking on the links again, does it keep happening for the same page, or does it sometimes work and sometimes not? (I hope that makes sense.)

And if anyone else has been having this problem, please do post!