2D Dolls

Clover singing (Jeeryama on eBay) is a very trusted seller. You can search them up on this forum to read their reviews.

This is their website.

 

I'm seconding Clover Singing as a trusted seller. I've purchased from them in the past. Minus directly ordering through Taobao, you can't beat the sales they offer on 2D Doll. I ordered 2 2D Dolls at the start of their latest sale along with some wigs/accessories, and I just got a package today with the wigs/accessories. They are one of the only dealers I've ever used that tends to automatically split orders and send out the faster arriving items without charging extra shipping. If you want something that isn't already listed on their site you can always contact them as they are happy to add stuff.

 

Thank you!
Ok, I know jeeryama

I don’t understand why some dolls have such a low price? I would love to buy Cream at such a discount, is this a true price?

 

They occasionally have sales of 35%-40% off the usual international list price for 2D Dolls. They just finished a sale a couple days back of 40%. It looks like Cream is still showing at the 40% off price. It may be they are running a sale on that specific sculpt at the moment or it is possible it is an accident as they just opened their new site and may still be working through some bugs. You can always contact them to double check. They usually respond pretty quickly. Even if it is a glitch, they may be willing to honor it at that price. If it is an accident you can always subscribe to their newsletter and keep an eye open for sales as they seem to have ones for 2D-Doll every few months.

 

Let me be real with you...I’ve noticed that Chinese doll companies tend to upcharge in their international market. Cream, in their official Taobao, sells for 2698 RMB, converted, is $382. So they can probably give significant discounts without it eating into their profits. Chinese dolls tend to be cheaper... provided you buy off Taobao.

But what’s good about dealers is that shipping is probably going to be cheaper.

 

Yeah, I wound up getting Cream's head only off of their Taobao and with fees it worked out to something like $95? (CNY->USD estimation on their taobao is something like $77 for the head alone) I think it'll be around $110-120 when all is said and done and the head is shipped to me. If you can order directly from Taobao it's going to be way cheaper than a dealer or a shopping service. I think using a shopping service, with fees + domestic shipping + intl shipping + paypal fees is probably going to even out to what you'd pay from a dealer? It's just that all the additional charges are rolled into the base price of the doll.
I just went the Taobao/shopping service route since I didn't want the full doll and hadn't seen the head offered alone otherwise.

In my experience this has been more or less standard throughout a lot of doll companies. I'm not sure if it's the same these days, but way back when, Korean-made dolls also used to be cheaper on their respective brand's Korean site. It makes sense, since they're not paying for extra overhead to have someone to manage sales in another language. Personally I'd rather be able to pay the doll companies themselves the little bit extra that you pay dealers/shopping services and just order directly, but in sometimes that's not an option

 

@Astro My country has economic dealings with China so I can pretty much straight up just buy stuff on Taobao with my bank account. And since I live in Asia, my shipping is pretty cheap. I’ve only used a shopping service for the secondhand market.

(And my currency is pretty weak. Buying anything in USD would kill my wallet. The Taobao route it is.)

I think going the dealer route would be better if you want customization with your order. (I think you could probably ask like, Legenddoll if they can give you just the head?)

Korean doll companies (like Luts and Soom) currently price their doll pretty similarly to the international market. With the caveat being that they’re much more expensive than the Chinese bjds.

 

Clover Singing will also list the heads separately, you only need to ask. When they have their 40% sales on 2D Doll, it is comparable to going through a Taobao shopping service so it ends up way cheaper than the usual international rates while you still get the benefits of using a seller that specializes in selling BJDs and is thus familiar with the issues and wait times that occur with these sort of purchases.

 

Thank you!!! and often they have such discounts (40%)?

 

I've noticed they seem to have sales of 35%-40% off on 2D Doll every 2-3 months.

 

oh, thank you very much, then I won’t rush, I wanted to buy Cream to use his body, I don’t need a head at all, I could sell it, so the body would cost even less. That would be great! ) Still very interested in what color 2ddoll comparison with Switch Normal?

 

Now I know! >w< I already had an open Taobao order so it wasn't a big deal to just add it in, at least. Thankfully I'm very much at the tail end of my doll purchasing career and hopefully this won't happen again in the future, lol.

@LaCantarella I remember waaaay back when (like 10+ years) stores like Luts and Customhouse had a noticeable difference in price between their KR and EN sites. I think these days it's probably more even, and everything's just gone up in price. From what I remember, Volks USA vs Volks International/JP has always been about even, the difference is just whether you pay sales tax and what the exchange rate. Even though I live in the US, it's still way more money for me to buy through Volks USA because our exchange rate with Japan is currently pretty good (for us) and I'm also in the same state as Volks USA, so I get to pay sales tax too. I usually end up ordering through there anyway, the new Volks international site is kind of a disaster. Honestly anymore I think I am more about how convenient something is to order from? If I'd known about Jeeryama/CloverSinging (I only knew about Legend and AliceCollections) I probably would've gone through them instead since it's one less loop to jump through.

That's really convenient that you can order off of Taobao easily! I'd be in so much danger if I didn't have to go through a shopping service.

 

Popping in here because I wanted to ask if anyone owned the sculpt 'Light'? I really want to see a view of the whole doll body that comes with him, and also just plain owner photos, and see if he's right for a character I'd like to shell.

 

@Mutation
If I am remembering correctly, he only came out a couple months ago so it is probably still a bit early for owner photos to show up. I've seen a couple people post on getting the larger boys so hopefully someone can chime in about the different body options for the larger boys.

 

Does anyone know if the 68cm body's hands have s-hooks? I'd like to get a pair of jointed hands during the sale on clover singing along with Light, but I'm not confident I could restring him entirely.

 

Just pulled out my Almonds hands and they're S hooks. Fair warning though, 2D Dolls are very tightly strung XD

 

Understood! Thanks for the info ^^

 

They are resin dolls , they most make anime dolls

 

Forgot to mention I ordered a Grape White head!

 

Hi everyone!! First time posting to this thread!!

I'd been looking into getting an anime-style doll for a little bit, and I thought I might like Dollfie Dream or a Mini Dollfie Dream, but that all changed when I saw Kiwi!! I've been thinking about 2D Doll's offerings anyway because they have a ton of sculpts I like, so I decided to treat myself and bought 3 at once! It doesn't hurt that my birthday is coming up, which is my justification for this indecent splurging, haha.

I ordered a Kiwi [paper white skin on a 41cm male body], a Jambo [normal yellow skin, 68cm body] and a Light [normal pink skin, 68cm body] from Clover-Singing. I can't resist a good sale, and, as other people on this thread have mentioned, 40% off for an international dealer is pretty close to what an order from TaoBao might cost, without having to go through a shipping proxy that might not understand BJD culture. [Side note: 2D Doll's TaoBao shop and LegendDoll both say that Kiwi can have a male body, so I emailed Christina to ask her to put that option on Clover-Singing's site. She responded within 7 hours that she had done so! Clover-Singing has such polite and prompt customer service.]

While I did receive confirmation from PayPal that the money was sent, my order's status on Clover-Singing's website says it's unconfirmed and unpaid? I guess they have to update it manually once they receive the funds (though when PayPal returned me to the site it said that there had been an error)? I'll check back on it in a bit.

One last thing that is a bit funny: So, I noticed that a lot of 2D's boy sculpts are named after food. At least, their English names are commonly food-themed. Their Chinese names are often different. Anyway, I wonder how they go about choosing the English ones, because Jambo is quite close to the French word "jambon." If this was deliberate, 2D essentially christened one of their boys as "Ham."