Ever fallen out of love while waiting?

Waiting for my second hand doll to arrive but browsing through pictures of other dolls and fell in love with another sculpt. I felt a little regret but since I have already paid I guess I will just have to love this one first.. and wait till the next time for the other doll.

 

This happened to me twice. Once with Fairyland, the one and only time I ordered from them and not a dealer. It wasn't that the wait was long, but people who ordered full-sets after I did were getting their dolls, and I only ordered a body. To make it worse, around bus day 60 (the time on the site stated 45 days) I asked them what was taking so long - very politely, I'm always super-polite with overseas companies - and got a snappish answer back stating I needed to wait my 45 days. Immediately after that they sent the body, which really made me think my order was overlooked in all their craziness. When I finally got it it was strung so tightly I couldn't even pull it apart to unstring it, the s-hooks wouldn't clear the arms and legs, so I had to have a friend cut the string while I pulled it apart at the shoulder. When I finally had the doll together I hated it pretty much completely. I sold it off in parts and then sold all my other MNFs -- it was like my dissatisfaction with FL and that body spread to all of them. Now I only get FL dolls second-hand or through DDE so I don't have to deal with them personally.

The second time this happened was with Dollshe and the epic wait of doom. Again it wasn't the wait as it was everything along with it. For 14 months there were nothing but excuses from them, and when more and more people who ordered way after me were getting their dolls I asked them why -- their response? "You only ordered one doll, so others will get made before yours". WTF? Also during that 14 month wait I looked at other pictures of Saints to try and get a little excited about him, and decided I really didn't like the mold. I liked Hound a lot better, but at the time Hound wasn't an available mold. When Saint FINALLY arrived I didn't like him. I tried, I really did, but I couldn't even look at him. Luckily Dollshe then did the first of their many "We're discontinuing the molds" sales and I bought a Hound head. HIM I love. I sold off the Saint head and am happy with my Hound, so that doll wasn't a total loss. And I do love that Pure body (those hands...).

The good thing about that stupid-long wait from DS is that now nothing under 6 months seems long to me anymore...XD
And really, I think it's about the service, more than the wait. Had I gotten nicer answers or something other than I what the responses were it might not have been so bad. I didn't even contact Dollshe until around month 8 :\

 

I'm waiting to get my first bjd home and the thought (or fear) of falling out of love with the doll has struck me. As soon as I found him I knew I wanted him, but during the long period of saving up enough money, I became uncertain. Not of the sculpt, but of the doll in general since it's a Souldoll Vito and, as such, he's a bit tricky size (52 cm), which makes him shorter than SD-girls and way too tall for MSD-girls. And in the future I really want to have him a girlfriend, or rival, or best friend, or bedwarmer. Whatever. But I kept comparing him with all other dolls and kept coming back to him as one of my grail dolls, so when I got the chance and could afford him... I ordered him. I've been waiting 4 weeks so far, so it's at least 6 weaks to go, and even though I've been looking at dolls and found new sculpts I want in the future, he still feels absoultely right. I just really wish that'll stay that way xD

 

Yes, it has happend sometimes. My character changes, and my friends, and then it can be hard to have the doll I first planned

 

It happened with my first and is happening with my second. I grew up to be practical and I’m a major animal lover and have a soft heart so the entire back of my car is full of bird food…and some cat food. And i have two wonderful horses so most of my money really goes to them and their board bill.

So when I jumped to buy my first doll I told myself ‘I have animals to feed and care for…what in the world have I done?’ and ever since I was younger RealPuki where the dolls I wanted most so I kept thinking…’Why didn’t I buy one of them??’. When she came I was also very embarrassed to have her (mostly the price and I didn’t want to seem like a total weirdo taking pictures of ‘a doll&#8217. So she did a lot of sitting in my desk drawer.

Only recently have I started accepting her more and even put a picture of her on my Instagram and Facebook! lol But I did fall out of love because I just kept thinking ‘Why am I doing this??’ And now I’m doing a layaway and I’m really half and half on her because she’s beautiful AND glows in the dark. But she has this ‘evil eyes’ look to her. So I just hope I can warm up to her faster than I did to Nero!

And when I can afford it I may go ahead and jump on a realpuki so I can go towards what I really love

I’m also someone who likes really interesting dolls, usually ones that aren’t sold in great amounts and are usually very limited. And being the kind of person who will spend an hour in the store only to decide not to buy something so with these dolls you have to jump and I get the cold feet felling from not spending months deciding lol.

Anywho I hope I answered your question correctly!

I also don’t have a story or real set plan for my dolls lol I love taking photos and I do feel awkward with people photo shoots so I’m more Wildlife and my doll sometimes. So I don’t have a real reason to buy them except that i like how they look and I don’t want to miss my chance to get one.

 

almost always. -__-
my ideas and taste in stuff change really quickly. I keep going back and forth from "realism. small eyes. MANLINESS!" to "kawaii desu girly boy thing with HUGE F**KING SHARP TEETH IT'LL EAT YOU ALIIIIIVE" to "girl. with a hot body for lingerie."

 

I’m glad I’m not the only one with a dramatic mind change lol

 

Yes. Even though I know the wait can be long, it has happened a few times. I think that's just because of the general fluctuation of interest I have in the hobby lately, too.

 

I fell madly in love with Iplehouse Bibiane. By the time she finally shipped it was Christmas and she languished in the Post Office depot for days before I could be bothered to pay the customs fees and 'rescue' her. I had convinced myself she would be getting sold as I had fallen out of love with her, definitely expecting a 'meh' moment when I opened her. I couldn't have been more wrong, she was gorgeous and I was thrilled with her, still am I do dither over orders though, rarely will I make a spur of the moment purchase. However, I have still sold more dolls than Ive kept

 

I'm very careful with my money lol. I set seasonal limits on my purchases (only two dolls a semester max) since I'm paranoid about being broke and I feel it allows me time to appreciate my purchases more. I'll only buy a doll after I've looked at billions of pictures and still like it. Usually if I fall for a doll I'll try to find it second hand. If I really love the sculpt then I won't mind putting in a little extra TLC.

today I just hit my max so it's no more dolls till spring.

 

I... actually have trouble understanding this. Most of my dolls were bought - well, pretty much on impulse really, as in, I see the doll and it strikes me that s/he would be great as this or that character. In only two years I have bought an outrageous number of dolls (...nearly 20), and there isn't a single one that I regret. That isn't to say that during waits, the thought never crossed my mind that maybe I'd made a mistake. It also happened to me twice that a doll arriving blank made me think that maybe I'd made a mistake. But when I had given them their face-ups, I was ever so pleased and my choice was confirmed.

What does happen on occasion is that I somehow start to doubt a doll all of a sudden, even when it is already here and face-upped. But when I pick it up, I never fail to be amazed by how cute it is and how perfectly suited for the character - and I fall in love with the doll all over again.

No, I can't see any of them leaving. Even my one not-so-very-beautifully-made boy... When he arrived (he was one of the two "blank mehs"), I was really disappointed by the quality of his head sculpt - his ears weren't as nice as I was used to and his nose wasn't symmetrical. And ears and noses, well, they are really important to me, and somehow I hadn't seen anything amiss in the company photos. In any case, I liked him well enough with his face-up, but on seeing a very nice event head, started thinking I would perhaps give my boy that head and sell his old one. And I couldn't. Now the beautiful event head is coming in and will probably get its own body in time, while my little one with the asymmetrical nose and ugly ears will stay on and delight me with his round eyes, cute mouth and little teeth. *sigh*

To be sure, I've never had to wait more than three, four months. But even if the wait gets very long, I have trouble imagining that that might change my feelings concerning the doll.

 

I was given a head a few months back as a present, and after doing a face-up on her and looking at her for ages, she went back into her box and has not come out since. Now her body is on the way, I am worried that when I finally put her together, I will dislike her. I guess it's all a matter of time really.

As for my first girl, May, I was smitten from the first time I saw her on Doll-Love's website. I never fell out of love with her and I don't think I ever will XD

 

This happened to me once but different...I fell out of love while waiting for my Soom Metato, he was an impulse buy and while I was waiting I was greatly regretting it and telling myself that I have made a mistake because he was a new size I've never had before and I just thought I wouldn't like him...HOWEVER, when he arrived I just fell IN LOVE with him!!! I bonded easily with him and found his personality fast. I'm glad I bought him fast because if I've had a little more time to think I wouldn't have made the purchase.

So far, there has been only one dolls I have not bonded with and I was sure that I liked him when I purchased him...I was excited while I was waiting for him and everything was perfect until he arrived, he wasn't what I wanted, his head was too big and I could only find negative things about him...after 5 years I never bonded with him, I put him up on sale and he never got sold so i sold his body and I kept the head for face up practice. he's my practice head now...the whole deal really saddened me a lot...like I never knew what to do with him, he wasn't calling me per say...

 

I have a doll I'm waiting for and she's the first doll I've bought that's an impulse buy because usually I have to wait to have the money but for once I had the cash immediately. Now I really hope when I get her I'm just as excited as when I bought her. Impulse buying makes me doubt myself. I just need to go look at the doll pictures and get excited again.

 

I bought a Trachy off the marketplace. After the seller more or less vanished, I pretty much fell out of love with the doll, due to the stress involved in trying to get it.

 

No, this has never happened to me, but I have yet to wait a particularly long time for this to possibly happen. However, I'm terrified that when it does come to when I have to wait a long time, I will fall out of love . I really do not think it will happen though, since I make sure the dolls I buy are ones I for sure want 100%.

 

When you buy a doll and you're waiting for it to be made, or doing layaway payments, have you ever fallen out of love with it?
Do you see another doll and wish you'd spent that money on that one instead?
Normally this is not an issue, but I did have to wait for NINE MONTHS after ordering my doll to get her home. I was about to pay her off and then the company released another doll I wanted even more, so I put the last payment on a new order and started a fresh layaway. The newer doll quite literally took everything I had planned for the first girl, including her outfit and even her name! So when they both arrived, I was uncertain as to what to do with the poor nameless thing.
To top it off I got a migraine during the box openings, and was so sick after opening the second doll ordered that I did not even take photos of the first one that I had ordered. I just took her out to make sure she was not damaged, and went to bed.

Did that feeling go away once that doll comes home and you love it all over again? Or did you wind up selling that doll right out of the box? It took a little time for me to warm up to the doll I had waited so long for. Once I found the right eyes and wig though, her personality bloomed and I love her to bits now!

 

I'm still waiting for my first BJD so I hope it won't happen . I have a omg what have I done feeling though, but mostly because of the price I think.

 

I didn't do much research when I ordered my very first doll (from Luts), so I really wasn't expecting the long waiting period for BJDs! By the time she arrived, I had bought a couple of second hand dolls, and she just didn't fit in anymore. I kept her for a month or so, but didn't bond very well, so ended up selling her off.

 

Sadly yes.. I had a normal skin girl with cat ears that I could not bond with and I just did not feel that spark when I opened the box.. but she was cute !