Buyer‘s regret

She's a Dark Tan, I see a lot less seeking for darker dolls. But maybe I'll take a gander at those WTBs just in case

 

Yes.

Most recently, I bought two dolls from the same company and shortly after ordering, I realized they were the wrong color. (Basically, the company offered more colors than the dealer did, and the dealer didn't have resin sample colors shown, so I thought I ordered a much darker color than I actually did.) I contacted the dealer, but it was too late to change the color, and that completely ruined my plans for the dolls. I had no idea what to do with them, had no excitement about getting them home, just dread and regret. I tried to make one work and listed the other. I failed to bond and ended up listing them both. I did end up selling one, the other sat on the market for months with no interest, so two days ago, I took him down and decided to play around with faceups on him to see if anything sticks. My first faceup did not interest me at all and I wiped him almost immediately. Second faceup is better and might work for a side character of mine. I'm still deciding.

 

I think that when Susu arrives you will know far better if those feelings are just anxiety or a real regret for the doll!!! I hope and wish everything will turn fine no matter what you will decide to do with the doll!!!
I had similar feelings with my apple souldoll her face mold and face up were magnifiscent in the website but after I had seen many arrival photos I was wary of my choise , it was the first doll I ordered but the second that arrived so I consider her my second doll (first arrived was Aletheia notdoll a pure perfection) I still have her but still it is not one of my faves so what I did I changed the face up this worked a bit but not much , then tried to use the body for patterns and such but at the end nothing works so I will sell her but my first thought it would be to change the face up , a face up transforms the doll also fashions as well. You shouldn't feel bad it's hard to find a perfect doll for a pre-existing idea even more a full fleshed character wish you every luck with that!!!!!

 

Hopefully!
Since she's intended to represent a specific character, I'm concerned I'm gonna open the box and be like "This doesn't look like my character at all" though I'm sure she would still be gorgeous.

I ordered her literally a day after she became available, since I figured she would be the closest I'll be able to get to my OC.
But the more I see if other people's Susus, the more I'm begging to doubt that.

But judging by tracking, she should be here very soon!
I suspect Tuesday or Wednesday. She's in town now, just needs to be processed and delivered (it's the long weekend though)
So I should find out very soon!


I definitely have the overwhelming feeling it's gonna be like "Wow she's so gorgeous!... But doesn't look like my character at all."

 

I'm regretting the first two, of the first three dolls that I ordered. The female one, I should have asked about her resin color before buying her (usage of words in description). Also the colors used for her face-up are bad. It might be all in my head, with her.
With the male, it's beginner's bad luck. I liked one of the SD sculpts, but was afraid of the price (joke's on me, deposit on one SD doll, way later). Bought a MSD fullset from same company, outside of the pre-order window for pre-order discount. I was afraid they would run out of the fullset (because I read about how fullsets all have time windows, how long you can buy them). I believe they STILL offer the fullset now. I also thought that I wouldn't be able to get a legit SD sculpt 2nd hand (I thought doll owners were conservative selling.) Now, I feel that all of the maker's dolls have the exact same face, so I'm no longer interested in collecting dolls from that brand, anymore.
I'm lucky that I haven't regretted the third one yet, because she'd never sale. I wonder if she was casted, then abandoned.

 

Oh no! It sounds a little sad!

 

I have doll regrets, some of which have resulted in instant reselling of the dolls when they have arrived. Some times they didn’t match my expectations, and other times they didn’t pose as well as I hoped or didn’t fit the character I had in mind for them.

My best advise to you however, is to look at owner pictures of dolls - there are plenty of them on instagram, Facebook as well as here on DoA. I also purchased a Susu during her initial release and was dead set on selling the head to replace it with another once she arrived, but by looking at pictures owners had taken of their customized dolls, it helped me see a lot more of her potential. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I often find it difficult to fully see the potential of a doll when you just have the company’s pictures to consider, because there’s no guarantee you want a similar doll like that (like in Susu’s case, I don’t want a baby-faced pouty ‘Baby Girl’ like she appears in her promo pictures). I am opting for a more edgy, semi-goth vibe for mine with straight black bangs, heavy eye makeup and a surly look about her - a decision I never would have arrived at without looking at how other people had customized their dolls ❤️ I am now glad to keep my Susu

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If nothing else, I would recommend looking for a different head for her, depending on your resin color. The Plump body poses beautifully - it is by far one of the best posing bodies I have encountered, and I have an undying love of Bimong, Souldoll and Fairyland dolls. SartoriaJ and Iplehouse FID clothes fit them perfectly, and Raccoondoll might too but I haven’t tried, so you have a fair bit of choice when it comes to finding clothes if you don’t sew them yourself.

 

I struggle with this too, I buy a doll thinking it'll be the love of my life but by the time it's finally here after so many months I don't really vibe with it anymore after all... But I find making it into another character than what I had in mind originally makes it feel like a new different doll that maybe i'll like more

 

I feel like my old-fart déjà vu is kicking in again, but maybe I did post on a similar thread before. When you've been on a forum for as long as I have, everything starts to become the same exact topic of discussion, over and over... Or maybe it's just dementia...

I regretted a doll I purchased based on me wanting to steal the doll's body for my favorite doll at the time. The proportions, aesthetics and colors were all so wrong, but I thought because my first doll was a hybrid, I could do hybridizing willy-nilly. Or just somehow magically make it work. In the end, the hybrid didn't work but the doll became my favorite BJD for a long time. I never sold a complete doll before nor after, and I'll probably never will do so again. What might work for one person, doesn't necessarily mean it will work for all. It's all mostly based on very personal experiences and preferences. I (heavily modified his face) customized that doll so much, that his face probably doesn't look like the OG sculpt anymore, but that's why I probably love him so much. Good luck finding what will work for you! (:

 

Ah ha ha ha ha. I'm laughing because me, three. Nothing like paying for a company face-up, getting the doll, realizing you don't like the face-up, and wiping it, watching yourself waste money in real time. I have definitely done this.

The way I'm avoiding doing this again is that I made a new rule for myself that I will not buy any company face-ups now. I'm doing this to force myself to practice doing face-ups, because I want to get better at them.
Also - wasting money in real time by wiping them... But no. Really. It's cuz I want to practice. Yup.

 

Oh, she was an in stock doll at a dealer (I bought without asking for photos). I'm planning to keep the company face-up for at least a season, and see if I like it and the doll. Anyway, there'll be no time to redo her face up. I'm attempting a few face ups in the fall. There's at least one that I'm not sure if I should commission it's face up, instead of doing it myself.

As far as the SD thing, I came into bjd when companies were either pushing their 75cm sculpts or moving onto 70cm+ bodies. And, like most people, liked the faces of the stronger uncles more than the standard ones. TIme will tell if I feel that the 70cm category is too big. Everyone keeps saying how heavy they are.

 

They are, indeed. If you want a lighter one, you might consider an off-topic body with an on-topic head? UF Doll makes a 70 and 75 cm male body in ABS/plastic that looks quite good in photos, but is much lighter.

 

Adding onto everyone talking about company faceups… My first SD was Telesthesia’s 62cm Xiao Bei head (but I got him on the 68cm body) and the faceup/promo photos were the main reason I picked him. He’s got this really cute gray/purple hair and just a soft aesthetic. When he came in the faceup was NOTHING like the promo photos and he had RED EYEBROWS. How they even do that is beyond me… Anyway I wiped it and re-painted him myself and am much happier with him now! But oh boy never again

 

Yes, that has happened to me. It was a new sculpt, so no owner pictures to compare the company pictures to. It was supposed to be the sister of a doll I already had, but when she got here, they didn't look right together and I just couldn't bond. I did try different wigs and eyes to see if that was the issue, but no joy. I was lucky and managed to sell her fairly quickly for what I paid for her, but I was out the cost of shipping. I don't sell my dolls often, so this was an unusual case!

 

Is the worry that you're finding you don't like the sculpt or is it the company face up that's putting you off? At least with the latter issue then a new face up can be done. But it can be difficult buying a doll without seeing it first as i've had a couple of occasions when a doll has arrived and instantly knew it wasn't going to work.

 

I regretted one purchase: a dream valley Nesha. She’s lovely! But she’s also HUGE and the detailing just.. didn’t look great to me on such a large doll. Really nice joint work though!

 

I think both

Now that there are more pictures of Susu coming out, I makes me realize I think I made the wrong sculpt choice.
She's going to be dark tan so the default faceup is probably going to look a lot different.
I do actually like all the dark tan faceups of theirs I've seen.
I even sent them one of their own photos, saying I love how they did it and asked if they could do mine like that and they said Yeah!

So while I'm excited to see this new doll, and I'm sure I'm going to think she's gorgeous, I suspect she won't look like the intended character.

 

Having it right now with my Angie. I haven't owned an NS doll in ages, because IMO tan and even fantasy colors just catch the light so much better and look richer in photos and in person. I waffled for almost the entire order period about whether I wanted to stick with tan or go with NS because I wanted her to be easier to fix since she was going to be my travel doll. In the end I picked NS and I am seriously regretting it.

She's also really pinheaded for a tiny her size. And her face-up looked more brown in company photos while it's a lot more stark and grey-black in person (though still lovely artistry). I think if I got her in tan or if she wasn't quite so pinheaded, I'd probably be okay, but together it's a real whammy (face-ups can always be fixed).

 

I started with MSDs and noticed 'quickly' that they weren't it for me. I did feel regret for investing time and money creating my characters just to rehome them at the end.

 

I've had that happen with the last couple of heads i bought tbh. The one i felt like that as soon as i placed the order (it was a bit of a FOMO impulse and i knew when i placed the order that she wasn't a perfect fit for me character. she was also a larger scale which threw off all my plans too ><), and the other, i had some uncertainties about, but he had been my first choice, and now that he's here, I'm still not sure if he works for the character!

For me personally, I'm thinking that a lot can be done with a faceup and/or some modifications, so I'll try to make them work. Even if it means commissioning someone else to do a part of that work instead of trying it myself, i'd rather spend money to do that instead of buying new heads that might also not work and have trouble selling the multiples. Plus, they are pretty sculpts and they might grow on me once they have faceups and bodies!

 

That's also what I'm afraid of. And, I probably wouldn't be able to rehome the "trapped in my box" gals. Speaking of which, I probably should ask how long the other one has just been hanging out in a box. I kind of wonder what percentage of bjds are casted, then never get to see the light of day, for years.

 

That's a good question. At the beginning I had several dolls staying in their boxes for quite some time

At the moment I still have one doll here that I regret buying. Shortly after I got her she went back into her box...nerver to see daylight again

 

Oh my thread got merged into this one haha

So ended up getting my Susu today.
Not a fan of the faceup
And still really on the fence if I even want to keep her.
I think I'll list her and see what happens

 

Hopefully she'll get to see light again.

 

That would be nice but that will probably happen once she is rehomed

It's kinda crazy paying so much money for something and then regret buying it.

 

@SpaceGirl It happens to all of us and that's okay!

 

@jessholy Sometimes it just feels so surreal Fingers crossed that this won't happen with my next dolls

 

@SpaceGirl I'm sure she will. The one I bought second hand, did. (Might be harder if she's some bird woman or something.)

 

For me, I try to avoid it by making sure I can look at owner photos. Sales photos are obviously really carefully arranged, so it's useful to know if the dolls are as beautiful without filters.

 

Someone just gave me this mini BJD doll that's like the companion of one I already owned. I'm just not sure I like either of them. I rarely sell my dolls but these two they're just not really doing it for me. I haven't done much with them and they are blank so maybe when I get them faced up and outfitted I'll like them more. If not I may do the almost unheard of thing for me and just sell them off. Right now they're in a box and that says it all because I hardly ever do that let a doll, even an unfaced up doll just sit like that. I ended up with her because my friend had buyer's remorse too. Neither one of us has particularly bonded with this type of doll..

 

I never thought I would be the one feeling like this but here I am! I didn't love my newest doll nearly as much as I thought I would, and now I'm panicking a little. I do still think it's possible that I'll grow to love him more, but I feel a little hollow inside right now.

 

Xagadoll Mini Lucas 2.0, with their 47cm body. Most of my issues are actually with the body, so maybe one day I might try hybriding?

I could go on in detail, but I'm thinking I'll just write it all out when I make my unboxing post.

 

As someone who is relatively new to this hobby (the purchasing part at least): Yes!
It's definitely because I didn't know what I want, also the FOMO and impulsive purchasing when I wasn't mentally well.

On the good side, trial and error made me a bit more hesitant to buy a new doll in general, but I've also noticed that looking at the blank doll face BEFORE the purchase is very important to me as I tend to take a long time to actually work on a doll.
Therefore I need to be in love with the blank faced doll or I'm not buying it.
It was another reason to join DOA tbh - better research opportunities!

 

i'm feeling some buyer's regret on the jointed hands i bought for oliver... the pantone match wasn't as close as i thought it would be, so there's a visible color difference between the hands and his resin. jointed hands are already made of such tiny parts, but he's 1/4 size, so they're just SO small. the thought of taking them apart to blush or dye them is.... reeeeaaalllyyy intimidating, lol. aside from that, the S hooks they came on don't fit in his wrist cavity at all, so i can't even use them right now. that can be fixed but, when trying to put them on.... i somehow managed to chip his faceup. so im just feeling kinda sour and bummed about the while thing at the moment XD
eventually i'll either fix up the hands so that they work for him, or just try n sell them i suppose.

 

The early 2000 was a wild era to buy dolls xD.
The only website I knew was Volks' and wether I fell in nove with SDNana, I ended purchasing a SDMark as I thought he was beautiful and never saw a boy BJD with long hair!

When he arrives yes he was beautiful but I ended not knowing what to do with him and kinda regretted not buying a Nana. Managed to buy a SwDNana years after and I didn't liked her either. They're rehomed for many years now, but it was very tricky to rely on those old pictures and faceups.

 

Super-long pre-orders. I'm over them. I knew that the doll I pre-ordered was going to take 8 months to make/ship. I did not realize until after I paid in full that the "clock" for the start of the period was the close of the order period - meaning that I paid for the doll in November 2023, but the company didn't start production until January 2024, after the pre-order period closed. I figured the doll would show up in August. Now it's looking like a full year wait, and I'm having regrets.
Doesn't help that he was obscenely expensive.

 

I did that once and I ended up listing the doll for sale within a week after I received it. There were two preorders on it and I ordered during the second one. The dolls from the first period were not in yet so I only had artist photos to base my decision on. When the owner photos started showing up I knew I was not going to like the doll. I had to wait another few months hoping I would like it but knowing I probably wouldn’t.

 

It is so hard to be patient for that long! I find myself looking for used dolls, if available, to avoid a wait that feels like forever!

 

I have I think 14 bjds right now and I haven’t encountered buyers regret only two times. The reason for the first regret is because of her posability problems. Since I was new to bjds I didn’t know how to deal with them and she was the odd ball out of my current collection size wise. Then the other doll I regretted buying was because something about her face sculpt in the skin color I selected was off putting to me so I had to sell her too.

 

I was dealing with trauma by doing massive shoppings. I realised there will be always a doll I will totally love but I don;t have to have it. Or if i regret not ordering it there will be always a secondhand market. I am afraid of buying somewhing on a sphree ( even if i feel this is the most beautiful doll ever) and then getting it half a year later and not feeling it anymore. I need to finally sell some of my regrets, just need an access to market place xD