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

Ever since I discovered you can buy these guys second hand I've never looked back. There's just something really nice about a second hand doll. I've always had a budget limit for dolls and buying used helps expand the horizons on the types of dolls I can afford. I'd still might buy direct from company someday (especially if another Faery Legend guy comes out) but for now I'm content to browse.

 

I'v been spending more and more over time, unfortunately! My first dolls were $200 (MSD size), then I was fluctuating between $200-400 per doll (mostly SD size). Then I got interested in Dollfie Dreams, but I thought "no way I'd spend $800 on a doll!" and planned a few custom DDs that were around $300. That was fine, but over time I got sucked into the world of DD and I've bought a few in the $600-750 range. I'm hoping I can settle down and not spend so much in the future!

 

Ehh, I'm used to paying ever increasing amounts as I because 'alright' with spending ever so slightly more for the last one, as I decide 'oh ok, well...I spent this much on this one...I've always wanted that one, but it was too expensive but its only xxxx dollars more......' And so on and so forth. And unfortunately the secondhand scalper market is starting to just be ridiculous so in some ways you have no choice but to be ok with spending more if there are ones you want nowadays =_=;

 

Ummm...I haven't considered much it but I guess my limit is up to "which" doll and how much I want to get him/her. For my dream dolls I will limit at max. 1000$/doll (all my dream dolls are in SD-SSD size) and there is no need that I have to get them three together. I'm already satisfied that I got one of them. For MSD, I don't want to spend much. They are cute and suit for child character in the story but I will limit them at 350$, no more expensive.

 

I guess for me price was never the first thing to consider. I mean, sure I probably wouldn't spend 2k on a doll, but then again, I think if I wanted it enough...I'm not sure it'd stop me.
Though thank god I'm extremely picky and don't like most dolls enough to want to own them, and the ones I do haven't been too crazy price-wise. I'm not interested in Soom, Iplehouse or most Volks (thought they're growing on me, damn you...), so that does help to not go overboard.
The most I've spent so far was probably my Fullset DOT Homme Ducan, back in the day, that cost me around 700 all included.
I'm currently planning to spend around 1.6k on 3 dolls in the next 6 months, but I did put myself the condition to sell some first that I didn't find necessary to keep.
So in general I'd say my average per SD is 600-700, MSD 400-500 (though that will change as the MSD I'm saving for will be around 700 with her custom face-up etc) and Yo-SD 300-400.

 

The longer I am in the hobby I've found my price limit getting lower -_- There are so many dolls I like in the mid range price-wise, that I don't think I need to spend more to be satisfied. Or maybe I am just getting stingy in my old age

 

My doll collecting has never been governed by money, rather by my heart and love for a particular doll. So my spending is all over the place, I buy from here, from BJD buddies and from suppliers depending on which doll pulls at my heart strings.

 

I can certainly say with extra time for working this summer, my price limits have increased, and it will naturally go down as I go back to school, because I'll have to budget my money around other things like supplies and food and clothes-- things I don't have to worry about when I'm with my parents. My first doll was $200, but it came out of gift money and so did the outfit I commissioned for him, but it wasn't until I spent around $220 on a 16cm doll that I started to become more lax in terms of what I felt was "worth" spending that much money on. Hell, I want a Unoa Lusis and Kinoko Juice Kiki in the future, and those are easily $1000 each.
I say if you're budgeting within your means and your dolls don't get in the way of your "real world" commitments, then who cares if you can't treat yourself to Starbuck's or a concert or that video game as long as you're happy spending all of your "you" money on dolls, haha.
When paying off a doll, it also becomes one of your monthly/weekly/etc. expenses, so budgeting it into your paycheck is fairly simple, and treating that doll money as a bill in itself keeps you from seeing it as "you" money.
Got a little off track there, but all in all, my price limits fluctuate with my income throughout the year!

 

I am planning to spend whatever on the doll I fall in love with because I have a terrible sense of reason when I fall in love with something and it becomes almost impossible for me to sleep until I have it. This has happened with just about every one of my hobbies and BJD is one of the more expensive ones, so this is going to be a very long jump down the rabbit hole >.<. But they are gorgeous and I love them so in the end, I think it is worth it! I tend to like the sculpts of the larger 60cm dolls so they are naturally more expensive D:

 

my price limit's always been £400 - which is about....$600 - I'm not sure where I got this figure from, it was just always there in my mind from the beginning, and seemed reasonable to me - I don't think that will ever change, no matter how much I love a doll - Although if I really had to have a very expensive doll, I would sell all my others to buy it, because again that seems sensible - it's amazing how spending £1000's on dolls can seem sensible LOL

 

It just keeps getting higher and higher >< In the first place, I intended to buy not too expensive dolls, or make hybrids, but it changed ! Now, the next dolls I'll buy will be veeeeery expensive, I'll have to save a lot more ! But they worth every cents I will spend on them, so that's ok, I guess^^

 

The only doll that increased my price limit was one that was an old limited edition. Otherwise I'm stuck on Fairyland dolls, and for now not interested in anything other than Minifees, so the price stays the same.
The amount I'm willing to spend on clothes, however, keeps increasing...

 

I guess my tolerance is going up... my first is a 250$ doll and now I'm seriously considering a 640$ as the second...

 

Mine fluctuates wildly. My girl was $300, and my boy will total $600 once I scrape together the funds for his body. Sadly, that won't be for awhile.

 

I think it gets a little higher with each doll. Though I really notice with doll clothes. I pay mor for them than I pay for my own.

 

I think my price limit has more or less stabilized... my first doll was a $130-ish Bobobie, which I thought was MORE than enough money to spend on a doll, especially if I was just going to get one as a clothing model (cough that worked well cough). I went for some $200 AoDs next, and felt that level was fine and I didn't need to go higher, and for quite a while (save a couple of Soom tinies and a brief fling with one of their SDs).

Right now I have a handful of dolls in the $300-$400 range, and I'm fairly comfortable with the balance there between price and quality. I'm not sure at this point how that balances out to the average MSD price (or YO-SD price, where most sit right about at $300 for me), but I'm okay now with buying dolls that, when I looked at them at the start of my time in the hobby, made me physically recoil from the computer at the sight of their pricetag!

I am considering a couple that go up to the $600 range, but they're SDs, so I can justify that cost on them... I really don't think I could go that high on a Mini, though!

 

Oh the price has certainly gone up... My cheapest dolls were around $500 (keep in mind I only collect SD sized dolls) and were the first few dolls I bought. Typically I seem to spend around $650 since I buy mostly Fairyland dolls now ,but my price range is $500-$850. I start feeling guilty when I spend more than $800 on a doll because it's such a large chunk of money. Recently, however, I broke this rule by purchasing an Unoa Zero. Now I'm going in the opposite direction. Buying my Unoa has not opened me up to spending over $1000 on dolls, in fact, I don't think I will ever spend that much on a doll again. I feel comfortable at $650-700 and now that I've splurged on my Unoa, I'm happy to stick to the mid-range prices and reel in my spending! Of course, I don't mind at all when other people spend a lot on dolls, I think everyone should spend what they want and no more and no less. Personally, though, I can not afford to buy very expensive limiteds all the time so I don't. (:

 

I've only just begun to collect. My first was a bit over $200, $250 shipped, but it wasn't the price that made me choose. It was definitely the doll. Now I'm saving for my next doll, over $800, but again, it's falling in love for me.

 

I wouldn't say my price limit keeps going up. I mostly buy Soom dolls (they keep releasing limiteds that I want, preventing me from saving up for non limiteds from other companies) and the prices are the same. Of course the bigger dolls are pricier than the tinies, but most Soom tinies cost the same, and most Soom bigger dolls cost the same. If I'm ever interested in buying something more expensive than a Soom doll (I've been considering starting to save up for a Dollmore Trinity once I secure semi permanent employment for a while) then I'll save up for it, however long it takes. If I have to save up for a more expensive doll a penny at a time, I will. I won't just rule it out because it's more expensive.

 

I've found that the longer I'm in the hobby it's more about what I like or dislike in a doll vs the cost. So what I spend on a doll tends to vary depending whats caught my eye. The most I've spent on a doll is about $1,300 with the lower end at around $140 or so.