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

Apr 10, 2006

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    1. Unless it's a doll head which has already "extinct" from the official side(either they stopped producing or it's LE) and I really want it.Then I will consider second hand.Honestly,my family doesn't really like the idea of adopting someone's doll.They are pretty superstitious to think that what actually happened to the previous owner?That he or she had to sell off the doll....
      Family issue is a thing but I rather adopt a new one since no matter what,the doll will definitely fit himself into my resin family :)
       
      #241 rhapsodies, Dec 29, 2010
    2. See, having found this thread, I have found a little one I am considering putting on layaway to save XD I hadn't even heard of the sculpt until today, and now I keep looking at her thread, and my gosh, I don't think I can leave her there!! *sigh* At least my partner doesn't mind me getting another doll, he doesn't mind to much anyway!
       
      #242 MissCarrion, Dec 30, 2010
    3. right now I really feel so >.< Ahh, that' so hard because actually I want to buy another doll >.<
       
      #243 Calisha, Dec 30, 2010
    4. Yes! It breaks my heart. :( I hate seeing people have to sell their dollies...I automatically think it's my duty to to take the dollies in...

      EDIT: I'm talking about in general. I currently don't have MP access. xD
       
      #244 Sabracollectsdolls, Jul 16, 2011
    5. I have adopted many from the MP but there are a few I would of never bought and sort of sorry I did but they are here and played with. I always get into trouble when I pass by that area! lol
       
      #245 PRGerry, Jul 16, 2011
    6. Not really. I only feel that if it's a doll I already want or if I look at the picture and I think is cute. My newest boy is an example of the latter. I hadn't considered Volks before, but he was so super cute and completely opposite of the mental image I had of those dolls.
       
      #246 silverholly, Jul 16, 2011
    7. I have found more I would adopt in a heartbeat but somtimes its the price or layaway option that keeps me from being able to get them.
       
      #247 EcchoKat, Jul 16, 2011
    8. I do it all the time. I always feel the need to save dollies that aren't part of my plans. It's how I got my first doll, Vivica, and it's how I came to adopt my second doll, Aubree. They weren't part of my original plan, but I fell in love with them. Other times, I'm not in love with the doll per se, but I'll like it and want to save it from the life in a box. I'm currently waiting on a RS Lan head that I never thought I'd want, period. But the seller needed it gone ASAP, and for the price, I figured it'll be a practice head. Then, I decided I'd buy her a body and make her my first mod project. The more I look at the picture, the more I like the Lan head; I'm growing to love that face.

      But other dolls I look at and I'm like "Oh, he's kind of cute. Oh no! His owner doesn't play with him, I wish I could save you~ ;-;". It's going to get me in trouble when I have more money. xD
       
      #248 JessiFlakes, Jul 16, 2011
    9. I was browsing the Marketplace for a Dark Elf Soo when I saw a Shiwoo head painted by Morbidollz, who'd done my other two boys, and I don't think I even looked at how much he was before I sent the seller a PM asking for their Paypal address! He just fits in so well, understandably so when you consider that he's from the same company, same faceup artist and similarly aged resin that I had to have him.

      My original plan was to have just one Lishe so yeah.... given that I've added three boys to that, the plan's gone out of the window!
       
      #249 Ishamael, Jul 16, 2011
    10. I think I have been very susceptible in the past but it's a habit I'm trying to curb. The problem is that I buy from the MP just because that doll looks lovely or sad and unloved and when it gets here I realise that it wasn't a doll I really wanted if I hadn't been browsing the MP. Just wasn't on my wish list and I start to wish I hadn't bought it at all. So I "Save" the doll only for it to wind up unwanted again. I am being strict with myself now, if it isn't on the wish list, I won't part with the money!
       
      #250 vonbonbon, Jul 16, 2011
    11. Nope. I never have enough money to do so. I need to plan ahead when I want a doll. I cant simply see, mull over it for a day, and buy. =C
      So I never look in the market place unless I'm looking for something particular and then I use the search function.
       
      #251 oOnyaOo, Jul 16, 2011
    12. My weakness is adopting dolls being sold by my friends... when it's a sculpt that's been on my "maybe someday" for a long time, I feel like since the doll & I already know each other, it's just time for them to come live with me. ^^ I have managed to resist quite a few such sales over the years, but the last two dolls I bought were friend-adoptions like that. A sort of crime of opportunity. It just feels natural, like arranging a sleepover: "Well, of course he can come live here. How's Tuesday for you?"

      For random Marketplace shopping, I do like to window-shop and get sudden fits of buyers' lust, but without giving in. I haven't been actively shopping for dolls for a long time, so it's been easy not to buy things that aren't Emergency Must-Haves. But it is lovely to sit there staring at a sales-thread photo & daydreaming about who he'd be if he were in my collection (in that alternate universe where I have an Infinite Space annex on my apartment). :>
       
      #252 JennyNemesis, Jul 16, 2011
    13. EBay is even more dangerous for me than the Marketplace . . . I always feel like secondhand BJDs on eBay (especially "older" ones, cast before 2005 or so) are wandering the world with nowhere to lay their heads, and I'd better give them a good home before they starve to death. Or something like that. ;)

      But yes, because I don't choose dolls to fit into storylines or existing characters, I'm always open to seeing, falling in love, and buying. Sometimes it works out in the long run, sometimes the doll needs to move on after a while, but either way, I've had fun getting acquainted.
       
      #253 Cynthia in FlintHills, Jul 16, 2011
    14. Welp, i only look through the marketplace to see what other certain dolls look like. If theres a certain doll im thinking of getting i go through the marketplace looking only for that certain model. I look through pictures and stories but i really have no need to adopt any random doll. Only certain models i want i would consider, whether its lightly played with or forever unloved in side a box.
       
      #254 racoondevil, Jul 16, 2011
    15. All the time. xD
       
      #255 Hikari Kame, Jul 17, 2011
    16. I always want to buy from the marketplace. It's ridiculous, really. The only doll I've purchased from the manufacturer is my Hujoo Wawa. (and I only bought from Hujoo because I knew I wouldn't find him any other way)

      Adopting dolls all of the time. Sheesh. I check the marketplace at least once per day. :)
       
      #256 PiaPol, Jul 19, 2011
    17. Oh gosh I always want to adopt everything. Thank god I have no money. lmao
       
      #257 mikkigirl, Jul 19, 2011
    18. Yep. There's been a Volks Kohya for sale with a lovely Docshul faceup who has been up for such a while that, at times, I feel obligated to save up money and give him a good home..the fact that Kohya is a grail doll for me adds even more inclination to it. I know realistically that I could never buy him primarily because I have other dolls to save up for, but oh boy, does that feeling hit me hard.
       
      #258 JayEll, Jul 19, 2011
    19. I am also quite guilty of this! My Yotenshi Yuh used to belong to rkold, and I am actually pretty open about how much I actively dislike Yuh as a sculpt. Big jowls with mumps so not my thing, but Rachel's Yuh had an amazing faceup that made me like him and him alone, and when she sold him I had to have him even though I said no more tinies. He's my spoiled little prince now. And the problem grows since I'm adopting a couple more YoSD's from her too. To be fair, she's ended up with several of my dolls as well. We're like one big incestuous doll family sometimes. It's nice because you still get to see the doll you used to own but don't actually have to own it anymore.

      For marketplace dolls, sometimes if it's a sculpt I especially love for sale and it has a terrible faceup, I'll cringe and want to rescue it from the badness and make it beautiful once more, but I never go through with it since I always have specific doll plans. What really gets me is when older limiteds pop up for great prices and I still don't have the money for them. It's like the dolly resale gods are mocking you. You just have to get over it and move on.
       
      #259 Kim, Jul 19, 2011
    20. I don't have MP access yet, but I would definitely adopt, especially if the seller has a good reputation. I imagine it's a great way to get limited dolls for excellent prices, and I agree it is sad to see once-loved dolls up for sale!

      I am the same way about dogs and cats...I can't go to the shelter any more. Every time I do I come back with an animal LOL
       
      #260 kaybee27, Jul 19, 2011
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