Help me identify a Smart Doll

That's the Mika Jougasaki licensed doll!
Smart Doll - Mika Jougasaki

 

Wait, what? Why?

 

Requiring people to keep passing along the name/address/phone of the first purchaser along to each successive buyer to keep the warranty valid seems really... inappropriate.

I guess it works to get people to not want to sell their doll and risk an unending chain of their privacy being violated but still... it seems pretty wierd and control-freaky for a company to do that.

 

The measures above are mostly to dissuade scalpers (there was a horrible incident not too long ago where a scalper managed to purchase every single one of a limited Volks release, for example), and not really aimed at the average collector who just wants to pass on a doll. Sure, it does infringe on the ease of collector to collector sales a little bit, but his intention is to protect people from profit seekers buying his dolls for the sole purpose of selling them at insane markups.

And almost no doll companies will honor a warranty on your second hand doll anyway, so that's nothing new. Might even be a bonus for collector to collector sales that the warranty is somewhat transferable.

 

Smart Dolls do turn up on Mandarake from time to time, too, but usually just the basic ones, and it's true that they don't turn up in huge amounts.

 

There's a group on facebook called Smart Doll Lovers and second-hand dolls pop up there frequently. My Felecity sculpt was second-hand and i've had no issues.

 

Something I've wondered about the smart doll warranty, if the owner moves, how do they get the address in his system updated? It seems like a common situation. I'm not sure how he can really enforce this.