Anyone not planning to sell any of their BJDs, ever

To be quite honest, even setting sentimentality aside, I just hate selling things... I find the whole process of assessing, photographing, listing, packaging, shipping, etc., such a pain in the neck, haha. I helped my mother sell vintage dolls on eBay, and it left an impression on me! Major respect for sellers and people who run their own businesses and do all that on a regular basis! Because of the hassle alone, I don't plan to sell any of my dolls, ever, unless there's the off chance a friend of mine wants one of them while I'm also in the mood to downsize...

 

nuuuu i love my babies too much, and all the time and love dumped into them, i just cant imagine selling them >o<, 100% bury me with them like an Egyptian QuQ

 

I thought the same until really recently.
I play much less with some of them and i just know i won’t pick them up anymore, not for a long long time at least, unless I “force” myself. I’d rather them have someone who plays with them and stuff, they deserve that at least.
I’m more busy and generally less interested in some of them as well ):…
I’ve been getting into other hobbies more..

 

I had to sell off almost all mine at one point. I only kept the ones I loved the very most and supreme irony they ended up stolen anyway. I will absolutely not sell off any dolls I might acquire or have acquired since. It was a very painful thing losing almost my entire doll family, what little was left after life got nasty. I was forced to sell most of them and the thief got the rest of the traditional BJD's.

I just can't do that again and besides 90% of the dolls I have now that's because a good doll pall was very generous and sent me some once I ended up in stable housing again. I wouldn't even have resin dolls if not for her. I view potentially selling what she gave me as rather rude and I'm very attached to these dolls now because of the gesture on her part besides. I just couldn't go there.

I'm about to start acquiring 2 SD sized dolls, hybriding them to reduce costs as much as possible. This will also apply to ever selling them. I just can't go there. I can't finally have resin BJD dolls again only to see them as property I can sell if I need to for some reason. It's not worth even getting these dolls at all if that's a potential future option. I want to keep them forever or at least until the day comes when I am no longer around to enjoy them otherwise what's the point?

It's not like I have oodles of $$$ to buy as many as I like...

So nah, mine are with me for life...

 

me. I left the hobby awhile back but I refused to sell my guys, once I get one they'll be living here forever until i'm gone.
However, It is understandable when life throws something at you out of your control and you *have* to sell them. but if there is a choice, i will not. (although i do feel bad right now most of htem are in their boxes as i slowly get back into the hobby and organize my life so they can come out of their boxes lol

 

I thought so at first bc usually once u in the fam, u in the fam - but now I've sold/traded three or four dolls bc they just didn't fit in with the rest of my crew, no matter how I tried to finangle them a spot lol

And my current crew does have at least 3 more that I would love to move on to other homes, left from just before I took a hobby hiatus when I did some srs impulse buying - but tbh the trappings of the selling process have always been stressful for me...so I put it off as long as possible.

Other than those few, the rest of my bubs are with me, ahem, "til the end of the line."

 

I’m recently returned to the hobby after a long hiatus, and even in the time that I wasn’t active or collecting, I still kept and enjoyed the dolls I already had. A couple of them are coming up on 20 years old now!

Even if I didn’t have the time to devote to new doll-things, or if my hobby-related interests had wandered elsewhere, I still never wanted to sell my girls. ❤️

 

While new to the hobby, I have collectables that have been with me for probably 20 years. Granted some are battered since I was a child when I got some of them and even then, that's 9.99 figures from The 90s, I can't imagine selling something I paid several hundred dollars for, mostly because the sheer investment in deciding, picking, ordering, waiting, and then anything with my own personal artistic investment would make it harder. But then again, I haven't been in a situation where I *have* to let go, so never say I never I suppose.

 

I've been in the hobby since 2006 and have gone a good nine years without buying any new bjds, so I consider that I've "behaved myself". Then I saw Birdcube Lipu and thought "maybe I'll sell a few of my old dolls or heads so I can afford one". Well, I have the Lipu head now, am waiting on a body for him, and still have all of my dolls. I mod my dolls a little (sanding, piercing, sometimes additive mods), so I'm not sure if people would want them, but I still haven't been able to just let go of any of them yet. Maybe eventually I can sell some of the unused heads if there's interest. I'd only sell the 58-65cm bjd though, as I feel that MSDs are more my style.

 

I have been collecting dolls for almost 20 yrs, and never sold a doll. I usually just pack them away once I lose interest. Honestly, I am just too lazy to sell them‍♀️

 

Oh no! I could never sell my crew; they're like an extension of myself... like children or something I suppose (I don't have any actual spawn, so I'm just guessing).

That said; I did sell a 60cm Obitsu I bought on a whim (and was a great deal from someone here on DOA many years ago); but I knew the moment I had her that she wasn't for me. She was my second doll (bought to be a companion for my first big Obitsu), and she just didn't fit.

I have sold a couple bodies when I rehomed the character onto a more fitting form though.

 

periodically I sell my dolls because my interests change. If in the first years of collecting I liked ordinary 30 cm play dolls, then years later I understand that this is not my format, so I sold everything and now I mostly have fashion dolls. What will happen in a year - I don’t know, what if I like something else ... I don’t see the point in having dolls in the collection in which interest is lost