Does your price limit keep going higher/lower with each doll?

A few years after my initial response, I can say now that I've actually gotten cheaper in some regards to this hobby. I've seen how badly the market's been flooded, how prices for previously high ticket LE's have plummeted, and how badly I've had to take losses on selling dolls myself that I am now very wary about paying more than retail for a doll, and in some cases, even retail is now more than I am willing to spend.

 

In general Higher! At the beginning i wouldnt pay that much for a doll than i do now for some!

 

Generally higher...My doll was 125...That's around where my budget is between 100-200 dollars at the most.

 

I'm a person with very low levels of self-control when it comes to things I go grabby-hands over. So, I never really had a doll price limit, per se, only amounts of money I was and wasn't willing to spend at any given time (so, I may have had no problems forking over $1000 for a doll, for example, but I was simply not in a position to spend $1000 on anything, so I didn't buy the doll even though I probably thought it was worth the $1000).

Of course I had the initial sticker price shock, but once I decided to dive into the hobby I went in head first and never worried about how much anything cost as long as I had the means to pay for it. Of course, it's always nice to find out that you like something on the less expensive end of things, but I would never actively hunt for a lower-priced doll because of budget constraints. It's either go all in, or go home for me. :P

On the other hand, I think I kind of always knew that I'd probably never pay over 1.5k for just the doll, just because I think it's a ridiculous amount to spend on anything with no other use but aesthetic enjoyment, and that price has pretty much stayed constant since my early days in the hobby (though I've only ever considered approaching it once - most of the time I'm well under a $1000 for the blank doll).

 

That's one of the best sentences I've ever heard in the English language. So wonderfully worded, and definitely applies to me too!

I bought my first doll secondhand (SD size) and she was a bargain, so while I didn't spend as much as my 4th doll cost, it's still my most expensive one as far as retail cost goes. Nowadays $150-$300 seems to be my acceptable range, but that's for anything MSD size or smaller. No bigger dolls have caught my eye lately.

Although the price on the next doll I find that makes me go grabby-hands over will probably not be a huge factor in my decision to purchase. It would be based more on my ability to save enough while it's still in stock.

 

I usually go higher when it is a full body doll (with head) I go for no more then $500 is my limit but with just bodies I tend to stay low like $300 to $350, and heads from $100 to $150.

 

Well... I don't think the order I got them in has anything to do with what I find an acceptable price range, because to me an acceptable price range is simply: "How much money can I afford to waste on something not essential to my continued survival right now?"

 

My prices have seemed to go up, my first was only $120, but now I'm looking at $400 dollar dolls, but if I see one I like for less I'm not going to pass him or her up just because they're considered "cheap"

 

Lately it is getting lower and lower as I have run out of money! It's not fun, but maybe it will change again someday.

 

I think my 3rd plan would be the most expensive in my list and yes, it would be most likely my limit for a doll. (700USD)

 

I did find this hobby shockingly expensive at first, and my first doll was an MSD even though the doll I originally fell in love with was an SD. ($500+ is a lot of money!) But I've kinda bounced back and forth on the amounts I've spent depending on the size of the doll.

After the first sticker shock, I think from this point on, I'll spend money depending on how much I currently have, and which doll I want

 

I don't have a price limit. I've just saved for the dolls I've really wanted. I won't settle for a cheaper doll just because my funds are low - I'll just save for longer! ^_^

 

I just got desensitized to seeing the amounts.
But still have a price range above which I do not consider.

 

I have found it like getting into cold water. I have inched in and the prices have gone up and up. When I first started with dolls $100 was ridiculously high. Now a $500 preorder seems like a reasonable price. It's what you get used to - and desensitization.

 

Yes and no. In the not-yet-two-years since I discovered BJDs, I have acquired a much better idea of what prices are like and what you might be getting for them. Like almost everyone who enters the world of BJDs, I have ended up buying dolls that cost more than I would have been willing to spend when I looked at these dolls for the first time. One reason for this is that I now know that I can handle BJDs and take care of them, whereas when I bought my first doll, I'd never actually held a BJD before and I couldn't be entirely sure it was going to be something for me. In the meantime, I know what I like. I also know what I'm willing to spend. I still have definite limits, and they aren't so very much higher than they were when I started out. There are dolls that I would like to have, but will only buy second-hand and at a price that I find acceptable. My limit lies around $600 for an SD - with taxes included (but clothes and wig excluded :p).

 

Like tanjalalie, I have grown desensitized to the prices. I bought my first doll (a ResinSoul SD) for about 200USD when I found it new at a convention, but since then I've gotten smarter about shopping for better quality. After doing research on this site and on various shops while being exposed to all the other models, my dolls have steadily increased in price (and size). It is completely unintentional, but I think the numbers start to mean less and less as I keep looking at them. Now I think dropping 800USD on an Idealian is not a bad bargain.

 

it depends on what doll i want....the most expensive ones were my soomlings the ones i just bought are each half the price of what i paid for the last ones. even though i gotta say i do have a limit. for as much as i could want a doll i wouldn't go over it.

 

The price's ARE painful to look at, at first if you're kind of cheap like I am. I blow the most money at the Five Below (five dollars and below) store in town because everything there IS only five dollars or under then I do on dolls. The most I spent was on my MSD...But now I'm trying to get enough money to get a new Yo-SD. It fluctuates.

 

I'm shopping around for my next doll, and I'm not sure if I want an SD sized or a YoSD sized doll, but my price limits are:
YoSD and MSD sized = $400 range
SD sized = $600 range (and even then I'd probably buy the head and body separate and second hand to cut costs)

I don't think I will ever be comfortable with prices exceeding those really, but I've definitely become more open. Anything over $300 used to seem too big to me. Now that's cheap to me!

 

I think over $850 is a little silly for a stock doll (the bigest ones), but with custom work the sky's the limit. I believe in paying people for craftsmanship, and that goes for the original doll company too. I am starting to get more familiar with the cost/quality ratio with the more doll experience I get though.