Your most expensive doll

Mine would be my Sweet Gale Cyril. His head was over $400 alone, and his body was over $700 from Doll Chateau. I have no idea how much he's actually worth, but he's definitely the one I paid the most for overall. Worth it.

 

Mine would be my Iplehouse skull Crow, thank goodness for layaway lol

 

So far, I only have one doll (still on her way!), so my most expensive doll so far is only $185USD
I'm REALLY trying to stop myself from buying a Raccoon Doll Intimate Nana at the moment though, in Sweet Mocha skin and with her faceup, which would make my most expensive doll after that $430USD

 

I haven't quite gone over $300 yet, but I know some of those on my wishlist are going to round up to $500-600..

 

My Iplehouse was about $600 for just the doll (no wig, no faceup etc), but I got free shipping so it wasn't as bad as it could have been

 

My most spendy was Ipehouse HID Falcon. My total with getting some HID clothing and all the options I wanted was $1016. On the plus side. I did a bunch of doll sales to get the funds for him, so only $6 of that was out of my bank account.
The moment I saw him, I had to have him. He was perfect for a character I was trying to shell. The character is one of my sisters OC's, and I showed him to her and she agreed he was great.
I absolutely love him to this day. No regrets.

 

Soom Phonolus-Rauco of fear, but i want some day a Dr.Strange ><

 

my first doll Rosemii blossom by peakswood, i spent $700 on her nude, and i only started the hobby 2 weeks ago. Im already used to spending alot on hobbies since i do lolita fashion. I wouldnt mind spending more,
My second doll from peaks wood was half that price!

 

my most expensive so far is my luts lolli. im working on starting a layway for my grail (lucywin)

 

Mine is a toss up between Souldoll Souloid Billian or my Dollstown/Soom Anubis hybrid, but fairly certain it was Billian . Have regretted getting Billian, but never my Anubis

 

Definitely my feeple60 rin! She set me back a grand >< but worth it!!

 

My most expensive doll was Patrick from Iplehouse, because I bought it together with clothes, shoes and wigs, I ordered a face-up and blush at the firm. In the end it cost me over $ 1,000.

 

...Augh...

I can't think about this fellow and not feel imbecilic. Once upon a time, Loptr found a pristine Volks Irvin on the MP for $350. Yes, $350. With original faceup, kips, new elastic.. He was a steal. And I bought him. Except I wasn't sure what to do with him. I disliked the default faceup. But I couldn't bring myself to wipe it.

Then I lost my job.

I'm sure you can piece together the rest. At least I was able to swap his head for one of my favorite Sooms. Despite not bonding, I missed him. Once I was re-employed, I bought the first one under $1000 I found.

I won't say how much, but he cost more than my holy grail...with shipping from Germany. Ouch.

 

Most definitely my tan minifee Rheia. She's secondhand but came with a sleeping head, all the hands, one pair of high heeled mag feet, second pair of flat mag feet, faceup, eyes and some clothes. Set me back $700 but thank God for layaway. Totally worth it. With insurance, she cost me a total of $990.

 

Definitely my volks SDgr Okita Soji! Well I was lucky and got him for a bit under his original retail price... why are most volks resin dolls so expensive in the aftermarket
I don't think that I'll every buy another doll that was as expensive as he was - though he was worth every cent! Beautiful resin quality, he came fullset and no yellowing after all these years (he's from 2010).

 

My Judge of Hell from Ringdoll my most extravagant spending on a doll and I don't regret it either. His fullset was over 1K.
Judge day 1 by SteamWitch, on Flickr

 

Mine was my Switch doll Ryun: R. I found him secondhand on Ebay but he still cost me a grip. $260 gone lol but I don't regret it a bit! He is gorgeous~ I renamed him Taemin "Shy" Kang.

 

My sweet Satou- a Dollspirit Hoya, and at the time, very rare. He's one of the original 5, and I bought him secondhand for $800 (just the head).

 

Woah! That is faaaaaaar beyond my budget XD

 

Oh, mine too-but he was my Grail, and I didn't think I'd ever get the chance again. Hoya has since been re-issued, but I'm happy I took the plunge and got an original.

 

The doll I'm still saving up to but one day is an Island Doll Wind Doll: Sparkle. He'd like $700 so she's gonna have to wait a while hehe. And btw did you name that doll after the singer Hoya from Infinite?

 

No, the sculpt is called Hoya. My character's name is Satou.

 

Ahh I see. And sorry for the spelling errors lol I'm doing a lot at the moment

 

Without question, my most expensive doll is my Volks Kei boy. He was over a thousand dollars! I love him so much and do not regret him at all, but I do not think he was worth nearly that much money.

 

You're getting a Sparkle? You and I will be the only ones on the forum with ones then. Though Sparkle is around $500 even with the darkest and most expensive colors, so that should be a little easier to save for than $700.

Coincidentally, my most expensive doll is also an Island Doll Sparkle. But that is because I got the darkest color. And a Granado body. She'll be around $650, excluding shipping, which added on a good bit. Would have been $100 more with custom color match, but at that point I figured I'd be afraid to even play with her.

 

my most expensive doll is babysnow from mia.I bought it for $6500 from xianyu. er,just a head. but she is very cute. and i love her foerver .sorry for my poor English.

 

my most expensive currently is my dc xaviera but mostly due to shipping (doll was only 480 but plus 100 in shipping from malaysia) but im heavily debating orderng a dark lord enoch from granado in bronze so it'd put him right around 800

 

My Supiadoll Rosy was probably my most expensive and then my Dollshe Rey Lewis. I still can’t believe how much I have spent on some heads alone lol

 

I ordered a fullset Doll Zone Kerze. Even while she was on sale due to the exchange rate she cost me well over $600 CAD. She is my grail doll so I justified it. I'm sure her dad will end up costing me more in the long run since hes gonna be a 70cm+ doll with an artist face up.... but for now she beat out my Kids-Sky Garnet who also cost me in the $600 range v_v the exchange rate is just killer tbh.

 

I feel so much better with myself after seeing how much money you all have spent in your dolls.
My most expensive doll was my Souldoll Vito Lester, not only because he was worth 420$ itself (plus shipping) but because his custom includes a wig made by a well-known wig maker and is worth aorund 100$ (I promise I won't spend that much money in something so small ever again but it was totally worth it xD).

 

My FCS from Volks that I paid for back then was $1,495 + shipping and commission to the person that placed the order for me while they were in Japan 8yrs ago, still have him and he is staying. No way will I ever spend that kind of money for a resin doll again!

 

My most expensive doll is Volks-Andre. He is an expensive model, and the seller lifted the price a little..

 

So back when we were very poor (like, legit, probably poverty line) and just got into the hobby, my then boyfriend/current husband dropped about $1700 for a complete in box Volks Jun Tachibana from the original owner. It included the original magazine where you could have ordered the doll from and a few little things. We foolishly believed that we would only have one doll each so we decided it was worth it for his grail doll. At the time, it was a good price considering the doll included it's original full set and had her default face-up and was in near mint condition. That, and other Jun Tachibanas were going for well over that amount on both eBay and here in not so mint condition. (I've only found one other Jun Tachibana that wasn't as mint condition as her with some bits missing and/or damaged for $1400 a few years back).

Obviously, it was such a financial strain because we needed that money, but she is my husband's grail doll so she was definitely worth it. And really, she's still his favorite doll, so no regrets there.

Honestly, when we were at our lowest, we had considered selling our dolls. Is it weird to say that we decided against it because it felt like we were selling one of our children? It's one of those things where we never thought of reselling our dolls as we got attached to them but it's interesting to see what our dolls would go for in the second hand market if worst case scenario ever happened to us again. Right now, there are so many doll choices that I sincerely doubt any of our dolls would go for retail value, but it's still fun to think of them as an investment even though they are not.

For after market value, I think one of our other dolls was worth more than the Jun Tachibana if we had sold her and her outfit at the height of her appeal. It is the Volks SDGr Charlotte. She is our third most expensive doll ($1115.07) and we got her straight from Volks back when Volks USA had a physical store in California. Not sure how much she would go for now, but back then I think we would have gotten at least double her original price.

If anything, this taught us to try to get the dolls when they are first released because dang...they are so much more expensive in the second hand market! Especially if you want one in mint or near mint condition.

 

Either my IoS Doctor Strange or my Dollmore Pearl in Wine Kate. They were roughly the same price, and I can't remember which cost slightly more than the other. It's funny because I justified buying him with "well, this will scratch my big doll itch and I won't get a Trinity"....

 

I've only bought two dolls. My first is a twelve year old, super yellowed secondhand fullset and i got her for only $110. My second is currently the most I've spent on one doll: an April Story Daniel head on a Miro 60cm girl body, totaling to about $200. I have dolls on my wishlist that cost about $800, but who knows if I ever actually get them.

 

My most expensive doll was my
Ringdoll Akaoni she was about $650

 

Ashley fullset by Doll Chateau she cost me about 600 dollars. I saw her on Denver doll emporium, and I just had to have her. I was especially interested after watching the queens gambit lol.

 

It would have to be any of my Minifees. One day I'll get a Minifee Tan skin and that would probably be my most expensive doll then. I don't think I would go over 700$ on a single doll since I mainly collect MSD size, but that is just my preference.

 

Probably my limited edition Vitiligo E-minor doll from Harucasting. She was 770$ but I don't want to own many dolls. Rather just a few really nice ones. I have 4 which have all been around 500$ each ( Harucasting Maji, Maskcat Astrid and Lilias). And I always sell a lot of stuff like clothes and handmade lotion bars to save specifically doll money. I feel better about spending that when it is not from my regular income because I always plan for the month with it and stuff.

 

Hey, 2015! How’s it going, sweetheart? Wow. I’d bought one... maybe two dolls at this point. And he was the most expensive until 2016/17, when I bought the red king fullset... and then that didn’t last either—both those dolls have been sold, and now it’s the Obsidian Twigling girl (fall 2020). €999+a second head. I hope I don’t top that.

 

Having a Trinity is great because people are like, "wow you have a $3000 doll! What a splurge, that's definitelly your only doll that price" and im like hahahhaa yes my most expensive doll, my only expensive doll, very unusual purchase....... (hides other $1000 dolls)

Dollmore Sugar Amnesia Elysia

My problem is that I'm a sucker for doll add-ons. When I buy resin from the company, I want all the associated bits and bobs. So a doll that is not inherently expensive immediately becomes way more costly. The elysia, for example, has literally hundreds of dollars in resin extras (bust, head, heel feet, jointed hands...) because I am a sucker.

.... meanwhile, I just bought a $180 modified project doll (a whole Luts SD with a head!) on Facebook marketplace for fun, and most of my dolls are nude and half-put-together. I run the gamut of "this is ridiculous" and "that is ridiculous" with little in-between

 

Dollmore Dell is my current most expensive. If Dollmore makes a Trinity size Boy I might break it, but I doubt I will go that high again, if for no reason than I very rarely purchase fullset dolls. Hard to say how much he would cost naked since Dollmore doesn't sell Lusion size dolls nude.

I am currently working on outfit of props for a hussar and the supply costs are hitting around $300. So my LLT Neil might be the most expensively dressed and done up of my dolls as far as single ensembles go. Given that a human-size hussar ensemble is something like two or thee grand depending on how high ranked you want to look and all the extra accoutrements, I suppose $300 for a scaled down version is about right lol

My boy Niccolo has the most singularly expensive wardrobe because he has the most Freedom Teller clothes of my dolls, but his head and body cost are around half of LLT Neil.

 

She's not here yet and I just started the hobby, but my most expensive doll is Dust of Dolls Kore. I chose not to get the faceup by Viridian House and there were no clothes to purchase (which i'm very sad about) but at ~ $490 not including the shipping cost, she is definitely my most expensive. I have a couple Soom Petit Gems, but they dont match Kore's price c:

 

It’s been almost 11 years since I posted in this thread and I had stepped out of the hobby for some years. On my return my full set Tae was my most expensive. Looking at my GSDF I ordered, plus his goodies... he is probably a winner. Although my SDF65 Diez might be above since I’ve bought 2 versions of his head from Luts and paid $60 for extra make-up on top of the normal cost makeup fee...
More than my old most expensive doll, and the Canadian dollar is so much worse

 

When I first bought the majority of my dolls, back in 2009-2012, my most expensive was Spencer, my BlueBlood Waltz which was about $500 or so for dolls, wig, eyes, and a single set of clothes.
If talking total money spent on a doll, then hands-down it's Quinn, my DZ Shengxi/AoD 1st gen hybrid. He was $350 for naked doll and wig, but adding in all the stuff I've bought him, it's well over $1500.

As to current value... no idea. All but 2 of my original crew are now somehow DC's (full doll or head sculpt) and I have no clue on the current value, as I had to take a long hiatus from the hobby and am just now returning.

I have a second crew I'm working on, just started, and of them the most expensive has been Nathaniel, my Obitsu Henzel/50cm boy body, coming in at about $285 with shipping. He still needs a faceup, so add another $40-80.
I'm tentatively planning on a OfButterfliesAndThings Claudia. IF I get her, then she'll usurp Nathaniel as the most expensive of this crew, coming in at about $450.

 

I guess my most expensive doll is volks shinku or maybe volks SDGR Alice

 

My most expensive doll is Switch Ryuzo in milktearose skin with default faceup. I bought him from a secondhand market for like $850. But right now, I’m thinking about upgrading his body to Switch HD70 body... so, more money to spend then!

 

Let's see... I think my most expensive doll will be Black Dragon from Loong Soul. I got the beast version fullset with everything! That was at least $1200. He's currently on layaway and won't be due to ship for like 6 months. I am so excited! But also feel like I died a little on the inside from the cost... It was a once in a lifetime opportunity like with most of these dolls though. Will be well worth it!

 

For me it's either my Alchemic Labo Latea or my Hypermaniac Sirang. Can't remember exactly what I paid for either now because they were secondhand. Worth it. I love them both so much my heart aches when I look at them.

 

My DC Pluto is my most expensive, at $450. I'm still newish to collecting dolls, but I remember buying my first doll and thinking that $150 was a lot of money to spend on a doll. But now, after realizing that you pay for quality and how much I love them, when I found a second hand Pluto for $450, I dropped that money without a second thought.

 

So this obviously isn't very expensive compared to some of the other dolls mentioned in this thread, but my most expensive doll is my Minifee Ante, who was 397$. I am a broke university student and I have a few other, fairly expensive hobbies so I prefer to get dolls that are on the cheaper side.

 

joke's on me-- Robb was somewhere between $600-700 and I have since purchased an Iplehouse Doll Choice girl in ebony resin, so....$900 is the new high.

those two are the only ones that are anywhere near those kinds of prices, though-- most of my other dolls are hybrids cobbled together from secondhand parts and less expensive bodies, or dolls that just came from less expensive companies. Everybody other than the Iple girl and the Souldoll Robb was $400 or less--- in several cases, much less.

...which does not change the fact that in 2018, I spent $900 on a doll.

 

Mine is either my Souldoll Billian Souloid in charcoal (blank) or my Soom Anubis (full set) when taking into account I bought him a new body in pale tan from Dollstown...

I have said I would never pay those prices again but if Loongsoul release another Black Dragon equivalent or Seventh Day releasing another Horus my resolve may crumble.

 

I'm just about to pay off my Fullset Black Dragon. $1600 and 30lbs of pure awesome!

 

My most expensive so far was probably my Iplehouse girl since I ordered her direct years ago but was afraid they wouldn't have her later.
I mostly buy dolls secondhand now if I can, though I think my one Iplehouse male is a close second.

Honestly my grails from Soom will probably be the most expensive if I find them unless I get only their weapons and full sets. One of them hasn't popped up though and I want him as a full doll guaranteed. I'd pay a small chunk if I found him (at least $1200, maybe $2000 shipped if he's the right tone), though of course it'd be a layaway.

I don't often pay higher prices as I rarely get a chance to order anything new, so I enjoy the secondhand dolls.

 

For a while my Soom Noellia in the dark resin was my most expensive, but she's recently been topped by my first Racoon Doll. I ordered her during a sale, and her base price was $410, but add in her wig, glass eyes, and the boots I ordered with her and its about $475.

 

My most expensive one is my Bimong Cocoro with the New tan 41cm fusion body which cost me 800$. It's incredible at posing and has like three pairs of hands and feet so the price is absolutely worth it and I love this doll to death. But sometimes I do feel guilty It's a lot of money afterall. And the rest of my dolls are Harucasting or Myoudoll which are all between 200$-500$

 

My DollZone Yuu is, but not by a ton. He's just a 70cm while my DollZone Yage is a 60cm, and I think overall he was $100 more than her. I think I spent $500-$600 on him total (hard to remember, I bought him in parts as I could afford). Not sure how much the old DZ molds are going for anymore, but he's my grail and I'll never sell him.

 

It will be my Frappzilla Lupi when they get here. Although it'll almost be a tossup between them and my Somni.

It is perfectly tragic that these artist dolls are so very lovely.

 

Probably my DOD Homme Ducan, spent approx $700 for him and i believe he seems rare now due to DOD is now closed