Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

I love my boy to pieces, however... his legs O_O I had heard that DoT legs were long, but whoooah. It wasn't so noticeable when I had my boy standing right outta the box and he didn't have any pants, but as soon as I put on his pair of PJ pants...haha XD Although it might not have helped that the PJ pants looked more like clown pants... >>; I've gotten used to his long legs, though ^^
Also, DoT bodies don't pose well at all ;o; It hasn't been hard to bond with my boy (he's BEAUTIFUL ), but I do get frustrated whenever I'm fiddling around with poses u__u Having a doll who can't touch his own face is just plain sad.

I really need to wire him. I want to know exactly what I'm doing before I attempt to wire him, though ^^;

 

I've found with B&G Doll's what u c is what u get my Afra aka Addy look just like in the pic but different eyes and hare. but i know what some people r saying about the pic's and yes i know first hand that they studio shoot them and photo shop but i cain t say who but let's just say that they do limited 1 or 1 set every month. but yes i under stand the disapointment my delphine looks nothing like in the pic . and i realy wanted to get the wine color wig my afra is wareing in the B&G site it was made just for the pic and caint find one even close to it but any who . me and my boy's say have a good night and they r waveing good night

 

I was disappointed a few weeks ago with my new CH Odree. I've been wanting this doll for so long, but she was very hard to find second hand. Finally, my day arrived, Custom House was bringing her back. I ordered asap, but when she arrived 2+ months later, her make-up was done very poorly, chunky, uneven eyelashes, and there was a noticeable chip in her eye (not a bubble, I know that happens sometimes, this was an irregular shaped chip). I contacted them, after many emails back and forth they finally gave me 20 points for the eye (my friend gave me a replacement pair, she's so nice), but gave the "done by human hands" excuse for the sloppy paint job. I will have to get her faceup re-done in the new year.

I have 8 other BJD's, Lati's, Bamicrony's & Puki's, I've never been disappointed with them. I love all the details in the eyelashes & lips. Not the case with Custom House.

 

I'm sorry to hear about the faceplate.. wouldnt blue putty help better than white glue? Too bad that it was a dissapointment and that keeps you from getting any other one, that's so sad, after paying all this money, getting this Well, looks like you found a way to fix this so I hope you'll spend good times with her and bond [/QUOTE]

Thanks--I tried eye putty but it didn't hold well when she was upright--so I use tacky glue which I use for wigs too, it peels right off but holds when you need it.

That said, I DO love her--falling face aside!! She looks exactly as I wanted her to look. But after reading so many things about bad paint jobs, bad resin, etc I think that buying a doll is a crap shoot--even a reputable company delivers crummy dolls now and then. I am not well off enough to spend this kind of money on a gamble, I had to sell many other dolls (I carve dolls) to pay for this one. If I buy any more, it will be second hand so I can SEE what I am getting.

I know this has been mentioned, but I still feel it is deceptive and just plain WRONG to show fancy pics to make us buy a doll.

 

Jenny that is a shame that you have to do that with the face plate. I agree with everyhting you said.

I had the opposite thing happen to me. I fell in love with the pictures of DIM Elena and when I got her she didn't look ANYTHING like the pictures on the DIM website. She is the only BJD I have truly been disappointed with. She is my worse poser and just the most difficult BJD I own. I can't ever sell her though because she was a gift from my DH for Christmas last year. Maybe it is just DIM dolls that are the problem, lol.

I hope you are able to find another doll that you truly are happy with. Maybe going to local meets can be helpful because we can see in person how a doll looks, how well they pose, etc.

 

I was really disappointed with my last FCS doll, an F38 boy. The overall quality was amazing and his faceup was absolutely gorgeous. Volks really went above and beyond with it, especially since my source pictures were all from an amazing Japanese faceup artist.

I just really ended up hating his face and sold him almost immediately. I wished I could have liked him, but the smile turned me off in person and he just did not fit the character I wanted him to be.

 

I've been disappointed twice. I ordered my Cristal and anxiously awaited her arrival, tore into her packaging box, opened her box and.... I was heartbroken! She looked just like her pictures on-line but for some reason the effect in real life was so different that I didn't know what to do with her. She looked much older and much different from my other girls. I gave her body to another doll and listed the rest of her for sale that day. I knew I couldn't even try to keep her. The funny thing is, I still think she's gorgeous and enjoy looking at owner pics on DoA.

I also got a Tanpopo last year to be my first tiny. I theoretically knew how big she would be but when I opened the box, I was struck by how BIG she was. I kept her for a month and kept trying to accept her but I just couldn't do it. I bought another Yo-SD a few months ago and I love the size now.

 

YES.
Oh god yes.

Over a short time I was rather disapointed with my choice of getting a DoI Luke over my original choice of any of the other boy DoTs. Was my first doll and also thought I had jumped in too soon.

The size of the doll overwelmed me and the fact all he had was a cheap stupid wig at the time, makeup I hated, eyes I didn't want and clothes that was more for a normal sd than a 70cm.

I can tell you I did NOT love him, even though for his sake and mine, as well as for the sake of the loved ones who helped me afford him in the first place, I Tried so hard to love him.

But now its been nearly a year and during that time he has had a custome faceup by a wonderful friend, a lame attempt on my part but decent haircut to the stupid cheap wig, and now even for christmas, a whole new wig I was dreaming of and perfect eyes.

Now I can say, I love him dearly. Though still feel bad that he needs better clothes. But I'm working on that now.

 

i sorta impulse bought my dollie and the entire time (even now) i'm thinking 'should i really have done that?" but when i got her i was excited about opening her...and then sorta dissappointed that she was so small and well, that's my $300...
i was also sorta dissappointed that her cheeks were so...red... i sorta expected her to be a bit paler...but i guess that's the character...
so i'm probably going to find her a new home .____. eventually.

 

The only thing I've been dissapointed with thus far was the floopiness and girly hands of my weylin. But one of those was quickly remedied and the other I've learned to love. But seriously, I OVER shop when I get my dolls. I've been researching different sculpts for one of my characters for three months now and only now have it narrowed down to two different dolls. I figure that way I won't be dissapointed because I'll know what I'm getting myself into.

 

Yes, when I first got my lati yellow I was disappointed at how tiny she was, I knew from reading up that she'd only be 16 cm, translating to what I know to be 6 inches. And even though I knew that I was still surprised at how little she was! She's grown on me though and she's the cutest little thing.

 

One of my dolls. For months I stared at him with growing resentment that he wasn't prettier, that his body was huge and awkward, he looked vacant and empty and face ups did nothing and he was just this blob that frustrated me.

Selling him was more effort than I was willing to go through. And, eventually, I hit on a combo of face up and eyes that made me reassess him.

 

Not sure if disappointed is the right word, but I know that when I bought my Mythdoll second-hand, I really wasn't expecting the genderless body she came with. I usually prefer my dolls to have an obvious gender and Jessie doesn't. That was a bit of an adjustment, but we've come through it okay. She doesn't get nearly enough love from me, though.

 

I was disappointed with Miyu (aod Mimi).. She was and still is so tightly strung, even after 4 restringings, and her joints are awkward. She didnt look as cute as on the pic, but rather scared and lonely.. If I hadnt chipped her faceup, I would have sold her. So instead I`m going to give her a new look and name, in hope she fills that role better.

 

The bodies of my two dolls drove me crazy. I sold the first doll, and sold the body of the second doll. So now I have one floating head, (long) awaiting a body. I'll make sure it's one I won't hate.

Other than that, no disappointments. I choose my dolls veeeery carefully.

 

I was deeply dissapointed in a bobobbie body I bought. I think it was the lack of photos on the website. I'll stick my hand up and admit I bought it because the body was cheap, and I wanted a body, and while it was nice at first, the lack of weight and the fact that even strung tightly, hot glued and wired the doll could not hold a pose made be gender swap the body with someone in the UK. Now the head is on a domuya body, which while is still not ideal, it is one I can deal with and made me stop thinking about selling the head! (which I love!)

My other, most major dissapointment is a personal mod project I've had on the go for about a year and a half now. The "character" of the doll has two heads, one heavily modded and the other not. I want the faces to look the same, so I sent both heads off. Anyway, long story short the painted head (unmodded) ended up in an accident so had to be repainted. After months of chasing the artist, the heads were eventually sent back to me in terrible condition - the unmodded head is dirty with terribly uneven eyebrows and not even close to his orginal face up, and the modded head came back dirty and the wrong colour. After months of chasing the faceup artist I was just glad and excited to have the head back, and (At this point I hadn't seen the final faceups, as they were sent out without me being told) I picked them up and opened the box in the car. I actually burst into tears at how horrible the faces were. Not only had I been fighting for ages with artists to get the unmodded head right, he was now all wrong again and so was his modded head. I've spent over 200 usd on faces alone with these two heads, and they're still not exactly right. T___T

So yea, that was super dissapointing. So dissapointing in fact that I'm dragging my feet getting the heads actually sorted the way I want. Meanwhile my favourite doll is hiding in his chair behind his wig so I don't have to look at his face up. >_<

 

Oh boy. I was definitely disappointed in my Dollmore Isaac when I got him. I mean his eyes are gorgeous and amazing, but I really can't stand his lips. It looks like they painted them like the girls who do stereotypical, Halloween-costume geishas. You know, with only the lipstick in the middle of their lips? It doesn't look like they followed the line of the lips at all, even if they are a gorgeous color and have the little liplines painted perfectly. Nobody else seems to notice it, but I may have his lips repainted one of these days.

And my AA Ling. I really did not like him. I tried to tell myself I did, but I couldn't fall in love with him. His hands were too big and awkward, his face was too stiff, and his body didn't pose naturally at all. I sold him within 2 months of getting him. =/

 

Mmhm I have that feeling of the so called 'impulse buy.'
Only with my Delphine. I feel like she kind of grabbed me at the pictures on the DOD website but when I saw the pictures of the box openings and all sorts of pictures, I felt like I wasted a lot of money on something I really didn't want as much as I had wanted Eden. Of course when she arrived, I kind of hated her. But now she's starting to grow on me and I feel like it wasn't the wrong choice anymore. ^.^

 

My friend had gotten a DOC boy and I fell in love with him. I had only known her for little under a year and I wanted one just as badly. I went to an anime convention in my state and unexpectedly, there were some AA's there and they were so cheap and the girl i wanted looked so big and pretty and my friend kept pressuring me to buy her until I gave in. I can't say i don't really 'regret it' but I despise her face-up and she doesn't have any eyelashes. I have a mnf Shushu now and she just makes my poor girl look so.. terrible. But I am determined to fix her! I'm saving up money to have her head shipped in for a face-up. I'm sure she can be fixed with time 3

 

I'm sorry that happened to you. I know the feeling of being disappointed in a doll when you get it, due to a seller's lack of details. My situation, too was because of a seller. I bought an Elfdoll Red from a DOAer here, and when it arrived, his face-up had been removed. The sales thread had only pictures of the default face-up, and the sales thread was described as the doll having his default face-up. (And half-heartedly so, i might add) leaving black "bruises" under, and around his eyes. He was slightly tinged yellow, and he had a chip in his wrist. None of this was revealed to me pre-purchase. When i opened him, my heart literally fell, and i thought i'd cry. I had spent so much money on him, and what is worse, is that this was my second Red. I had to sell my first one, due to bills, and so i was getting him again, and was so excited to be doing so. When i opened him and saw the damage, i was a mess. It was just worsened by the fact that i was told that the shipping box would come as soon as she got back to her home, only to find that she never shipped it. When I mentioned this, i was told "If you wanted a doll that came with everything original, then you should have bought him brand new." Even when the sales thread described the doll as coming with default face-up, and his default box. Much Later, i got a ton of nasty PMs on an offline messenger service, From the seller, about me leaving my computer, and messenger service on when i'm not home, and so then i deleted her from my buddylist. Later, i recieved a random PM stating that she needed my shipping address, so she could send the box. I gave it to her, and still no box. :::

All of that really burned me on my 're-purchase' of Red, and i actually felt like selling him, and just buying him brand new from the Elfdoll Showroom. But, in the end, after a number of monthes of having him, i just couldn't part with him. Once all the BS of the transaction and damage to the doll was in the past, and Angel (My Red) had a new face-up, I was in love with him all over again, and can't imagine not having him. Here's my Angel.



and with his newest face-up (I tend to redo them about every five or 6 monthes)