DoD Horror stories?

I bought my doll recently from DOD and he's has no black lips yet. ^^ I hope that doesn't happen, I mean, he's not going for the goth look. >>;;

 

I love DOD dolls, I have two of my own [plus a head] and I'm going to order two more soon.

Personally I think their dolls are great quality, pose well, look nice even after yellowing [my boy is over a year old and he's yellowed a bit, but I like how it looks, and it's not UBER yellow or anything.] and their face ups are great [Satsuki and Arlene both have company face-ups. The only thing I don't like is that Arlene has a bunch of glitter in her face up. D: I'm considering wiping her clean and doing it myself, but I really like it, apart from the glitter...]

As for the faceup if you DON'T like DOD's work, I need practice doing faceups and wouldn't mind doing one for free if you paid for the shipping and such. [I understand if you don't want to though, as you don't know me or anything. :3 I just thought I'd offer. And I have a few images of the face up I've done already I could show you if you are interested.]

Either way I hope you enjoy the doll you end up buying; DOD or otherwise.

 

Ooooh. For some reason I thought you meant the website. o_o

Anyway, this I'd like to keep tabs on because DoD is definitely on my wishlist. ^___^ (E-an, E-an, E-AN! )

 

Nice choice! E-an is a lovely, lovely mold.

 

That she is! But since I've no $$$ / no time she'll be a while. ^^'''

 

I had no problems at all. I got a Ducan in Jan of 07 and he's fine.. I take him everywhere too and he's still perfect though I just recently wiped his face and had him sent off back to DOD for a fresh default face-up due to me taking him all over his face up worn off a bit.. I also have another Ducan which I bought second hand which is around the same age and even came from florida a few months ago when I bought him. the person I bought him from took him everywhere too and he's still perfect and hasnt even yellowed and his face up is still perfect. No black lip problems for me ^.^

 

I had my Sha over a year and his faceup was perfect. Lasted a whole year, even longer, until I decided to take it off and get his face redone. lol. And my Luke Ver. 2's I've had since February 6th and his is still amazing! And my Sha's new faceup is also VERY amazing now. I've never had any black lip problems.

 

I've had my Too for almost a year and he's still wonderful. His faceup was done by DOD and it's still excellent.

 

I personally haven't had any issues. My oldest is 3 yrs old. I've had a few over the years and no issues.

It seems that the black lips issue came from a specific time frame. I do know one person who had this issue and DoD asked to have the head shipped back and redid the head for her free of charge since she had gloss issues the first week she had the dolls which is not typical of most DoDs.

One the whole the percentage of issues is small, but it really is disheartening to have it happen. Combination of a bad gloss batch and typically high humidity/heat or sudden and drastic temperature/climate changes can affect dolls and their faceups. My suggestion is to keep an eye out on your doll right when you receive it and if anything happens shortly after poke DoD right away. Typically they're pretty good about things like that as long as you don't wait.

 

Of all the doll companies, DoD seems to have the worst reputation for photoshopping their pictures, and bad faceups? But that's just what I've read, which kind of sucks because me and my friend picked them out as the company we'd buy our first dolls from, but now we're not so sure. :\

Is it just personal preference? They seem to be held as poor to photograph.

 

I'm not sure about them photoshopping images, as I've never heard that, but I think they photograph well. Obviously you can't just snap a picture and get a masterpiece [I think that goes for any doll, over all] but I've taken some pretty good photographs with nothing but plain in door lighting and a camera. I don't have dolls that AREN'T DOD, so I have nothing to really compare it to, and maybe I'm biased, but I really like their dolls. [The next two I'm getting are from them too. :3]

As for faceups... I love my girl's face up, except there is randomly glitter all in it. I'm not sure what happened there but it really makes me want to wipe her clean and do something myself. And my boy's is really nice too, but I'm sure it's all about personal preference as fa as faceups are concerned.

May I ask what doll you and your wife were considering? If I have to doll I can give you some completely unedited photos of them if you want. I don't know how much that will help. Even if you just want to see the difference from my H. Ducan [w/ default face up] to their images I can get some faceup closeups in some good lighting if you want. [I'd say the same for my E-an Arlene, but her face up isn't default but peach.]

 

Pah! If they're poor to photograph, that is the photographer's fault for lack of skill. Yes, DOD does shop their photos most horrendously, but if I were you I would find the database threads of the molds you like and see how they *really* look. Personally, I think DODs are beautiful dolls. And other than the eyebrows which were redone due to the previous owner almost rubbing them off due to wear, I don't think this is a bad faceup at all: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/kwanboa1/caromature7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/kwanboa1/caromature6.jpg

And the faceup on my DOC Leya would be, now, three years old.

DODs don't photograph well, they say? They need to learn how to work their cameras.

 

Hmm! My friend and I were going to get an E-An for me and a Camine for her, but all the bad feedback we saw was making us mildly nervous. I did look at the doll database and didn't see anything wrong with the photos of the sculpts in question there but was worried that maybe I was crazy, or there was just something intrinsically wrong with DoD sculpts that I *couldn't* see as a n00b. D: I should trust my own opinions more, ha ha, clearly.

Thanks for helping out, both of you, I appreciate it, and sorry for taking so long to reply, I work long hours at the bar many days a week.

 

My Too has the default faceup. I bought him used (i'd estimate he's about 3 years old) and it's still amazing. I think they have some of the nicer faceups next to Luts. At a meetup, lots of people were complementing it. ^ ^

As for photographing, the only problem I have is with lighting. He tends to look washed-out but that's more due to my crappy camera skills than anything.

I only have DODs and they are my favorite. DOD may photoshop their photos, but their dolls are hardly lacking in any way. They are very lovely.

I highly reccomend DOD. I am such a fangirl. XD

 

Same troubles.

 

I love DoD very much... I have two boys from DoD - Conaire (H.Ducan) and Larkin (Sha) and both have the troubles with their lips. (((

 

I have a question. I heard from some people saying that the quality of the resin for DOD doll are not as good as it used to be. Is it true. I would like a point of view from DOD owners, cos i am really kin to get T. E AN.

 

I have two DoDs (Camine and H.Ducan). I've had them both for over two years and I've never had a faceup problem. I've moved house, I've taken them to meets and I photograph them regularly and their faceups are fine.

I also think their default faceups are gorgeous. But anyone concerned about excessive shopping on the official site should take a look at the owner databases here on DOA, as suggested by others.

I admit I sometimes have problems photographing Rook (Camine), because he has that "starey-eyes" thing going on, but I approach it as a challenge to take good pics of him and avoid the "stare".

My boys are heavy, so the resin isn't thin and the quality is excellent. Of course, my boys are older, so I can't comment on recent resin batches from DoD.

All in all, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend DoD dolls to anyone.

 

So far so good~ No black lips at all! DoD is a very caring company.

I've communicated several times with them via their Q & A board - and they sure know how to make you feel like your special in their replies. Just like their dolls!

They are not difficult to photograph! In fact, I find it difficult to stop taking pictures of my two DoDs. They photograph well even with my old old digital camera ^^

Here are some 'raw' images. The only thing I had to edit was the size:

<-- super large file ^^

They haven't yellowed. It's just my room and the camera setting I was using. ^^ Yup, I would recommend dealing with DoD to everyone.

 

Oh cool! I was thinking of getting a SD after selling my Luts ANI... Dun want to get dolls from Luts anymore... personal reasons... I was told that DOD make their doll when order and they do not keep stocks so i was quite attracted by the 'freshly make' idea (if i am wrong pls tell me). Singapore owners dun recommend DOD i wonder why... lolx

But after reading most of the review and owners comments, i hope i am lucky to get a nice doll without my mother knowing lolx