Ever feel the need to "adopt" dolls for sale in the marketplace?

Buying a used doll is probably much better than buying a new one, anyway :P Recycling is good for the Earth!

 

Not yet. I haven't found any yet that strike my fancy. :/

 

Time to revisit this thread I think! I have since, posting here last time have indeed succumbed to the Marketplace at last! I have bought a Fantasy Doll Kemi (a sculpt I admit never liked much) but something was different about her. So, I caved and here she is at home with me. Now, I'm on layaway for a Littlefee DES!

 

No, because I have very specific doll wants, I wouldn't even buy a doll second hand because of where I live, shipping is extremely expensive if it comes from the States, and most people want to sell their doll at the price they bought them with. So it's really cheaper to just buy at the website in the long run.

 

I want to adopt all the elf dolls who aren't loved anymore. ._.

 

Like Luarwulf,
marketplace is the place of all the temptation and while brwosing I have to sit on my hands to not ask more infos to the vendor when I fall in love with a doll; I keep repeat to myself "you must be stong you must be strong and r e s i s t . Well credit card is quite a useful reminder...You can't lie to it!

 

You know, I think now I'm almost glad I don't have access to the marketplace. It sounds like a wonderful and horrible addiction at the same time.

 

I have done it before and it totally threw off my original plan for other dolls. Unfortunately that leads to my collection being more like a revolving door than I want it to and I end up right where I am now- needing a break.

 

It is an impulse, yes! Sort of like the candy they put on the racks closest to the checkout, in the supermarket.

But the impulse quickly passes. I am not a rescue-collector, so I'm not into buying damage-case projects who'd never get tended to.

It's harder to pass up the Marketplace at certain times of the year-- when everybody's jettisoning all these rare/HTF beauties for Christmas money or Dolpa money or convention money. There are always great deals on some rare or obscure dolls that I've always admired, but which just aren't on my A-list, and those are the ones that sometimes make me think "oh c'mon, surely I have another few feet of shelf-space left...!" But no. Eyes on the prize. A little indulgence in passing infatuation is one thing-- but I only complete a purchase for True Love.

 

This ALWAYS happens to me. I can't stand worrying that the doll doesn't feel loved or wanted - and it isn't just dolls. I do this with pretty much all inanimate objects. Don't know why, I always have! But I have stopped looking at the MP because I don't want to see anyone I really HAVE to take home!

 

Funny thing is most of the dolls I bonded with and that stay are not second hand ones. They are the ones I discovered at their respective sights and just fell for. Pure & simple. I think maybe 1 has been a second hand that I felt the need to save. But most would be the bodies I felt the need to rescue and then find a head to go with it next. I have seen plenty I wish I could get or afford, but I usually talk myself out of them due to bad experience with one like it or at least from the same company.

 

Six out of the seven dolls I own have been adopted from the MP so... xD; But most of them are LEs.

 

The boy I'm about to put on layaway is from the Marketplace. I decided I wanted a tiny doll for my next purchase, and just looking through some of those threads to find all their little faces saring back at you, all sad and such. It made me want to buy them all. Kind of. I'm very picky about my doll choices and some of them just couldn't do it for me. The boy that caught my eye was the darling Soom Grit human, his pretty gray skin and pouty lips.. And I would be his third home! His first home only had him for about a week, taken out of the box once before being sold...and then his second owner just didn't love having a gray skin as much as she liked looking at them. So!
I should be adopting him very soon (:

 

My next doll may be a rehome. It's not that I'm trying to save money, although that'd be nice, but when I think about it, the fear and anxiety you have when dealing with a foreign company that speaks a foreign language, and may or may not have a track record of bad transactions is tantamount to the fear and anxiety that'd come with buying a pre-loved doll. Except your chances of finding someone who really speaks your language WELL are infinitely better. Aside from communication being easier, there's the idea that a doll isn't going to go un-loved. Also, there's the opportunity to discuss each flaw in the doll, factory or not, and bargain for a better price. You don't get that when dealing with a company. You are made to expect a factory-perfect product, and in my experience, you don't always get that. Dolls being strung too tight or loose is one thing, wonky face ups that have nothing to do with the default one pictured are another, but actual flaws in the dolls, the resin, the packaging....it happens all the time, and the risk is almost neck and neck with that of buying a doll from a previous owner.

 

If they're my favourite dolls, I will buy if I can affort them. Sounds nice if you're adopt doll that the owner does't love them anymore. I'd love to find more member to make my family bigger.

 

Yeah...I check the doll marketplace too and sometimes I think "Awww!! I want them with me ;3;" but.....no money u_u

 

Hm, I have now adopted one head and one doll from the MP. I've never thought about buying a doll from the MP as 'saving' them though.

The 1.5 second-hand dolls that I have are both sculpts that would be either difficult or impossible to get from the companies, and both of them are still, just as they came to me, in very good condition. With that said, I have sometimes read through sales posts and wished to have adequate space and funds for certain dolls that needed new homes.

 

I sometimes catch myself browsing the marketplace when I'm bored. Every time I have to remind myself that I already have 3 dolls that my boyfriend isn't aware of that are going to be a little problem when we move in together next year, I don't need to add even more to the problem. xP Though out of my 4 dolls one of them was from the marketplace. I just couldn't understand how such a beautiful head could still be for sale after about 3-4 months, so I caved in and bought it. She then surprisingly became the shell for my hardest to shell oc.

 

Yes. Hence why I have so many

 

yes! coz i don't own much!