Have you ever regreted something with an order?

Usually what I regret is not ordering extra parts even though they were available (like more hands, heel feet, extra head with a different expression, etc). I tell myself I'm already spending enough money, I shouldn't get extra parts! But later I always wish that I had.

 

I regret not getting my Oswin in tan resin. I thought that it would be fine just dying him and the process itself went well but I didn’t fully understand that faceups and body blushing on dyed dolls are essentially permanent. Dying him after I cleaned him with Windsor and Newton brush cleaner and then removed the old dye with acetone created this weird effect where the darkest parts of his faceup were completely resisting the dye (brows mostly) while everything else was only taking on a slight color after nearly 2 hours in the dye bath. I’ve been able to avoid this issue on his head by painting it thinly and you can’t tell that anything bad happened but I’ve had to scrap my plans to blush his hands because paint will rub off on the wrists. I still don’t know what caused the face to resist dye, I suspect that using more Windsor and Newton on darker parts left oily residue that somehow soaked into the resin and can’t be removed.

https://flic.kr/p/2nVrkZg

(anecdotally I’ve heard that using a Magic Eraser or very fine sandpaper on a doll will also prevent dye from taking…is this based on any kind of fact? I don’t have a spare piece of resin that I’m willing to test this on)

 

Yes, I have one doll I wish I had ordered in a different resin color. I also forgot to order extra hands with a couple of dolls. They are tiny and only $10 extra but now I’d have to pay full shipping to get them or wait until I order another doll from them and buy extra hands for the ones I forgot, I just hope the resin match won’t be off since it is not from the same batch.

 

Most often it's a case of regretting the resin choice for me. I bought a Mystic Kids Lillian in pink skin and when she arrived she was VERY pink, and it wasn't natural-looking at all and completely ruined the doll for me. Luckily a friend took her off my hands and enjoyed her a lot more than I did, but it was still a huge regret.

I also have a normal skin head that I excitedly bought a white skin body for that I thought I'd be able to blush the head to match, and I really don't know what I was thinking, lmao! I'm still happy with it I just regret thinking I could easily get something white without an airbrush.

 

I had a Granado doll I ordered and during the wait I was wishing I'd ordered a darker color. Once they arrived the head sculpt didn't work for what I had in mind anyway, so I sold him.

 

mostly i regret not getting option parts and such, i just ordered a minifee alan on layaway and i regret not getting him some spare hands because i don't like the default male hands much >.<

 

Same, thought I wouldn't want heel feet... ended up ordering heel feet later, and so paying for shipping twice

 

100% agree on either not buying option parts at all or not buying enough. For my last doll, I learned from my mistakes and spent nearly $200 more on option parts. And I still wish I had more!

Another regret was choosing realskin for my Iplehouse boy. The resin is absolutely beautiful, but I worry about taking him outside and I'll never ever be able to upgrade his body. At least they worked out the pea green kinks by this batch... This only became a regret 10 years after ordering.

 

Yes, on my first order! I ordered a doll from Resinsoul in light gray resin. After ordering I was looking excitedly at lots of pictures of their dolls and realized light gray would be too light for me.

I immediately sent them an e-mail asking to change it to dark gray. Luckily it wasn't too late and now I'm waiting for a dark gray Mei.

 

Yes, I wish I had ordered my DC Gladys as a full set so that her mechanical limbs were already painted. I've purchased some paint to do it myself but I hesitate because I'm worried about the result.

 

Yep, I am also one of those who regret their choice of resin color in an order. It was for an artist's doll and i got it in mint/pink and was so fed up by pastel colors by the time of arrival ... I dumped the doll in dye and now it's dark green :'D

 

Regretting ordering Resinsoul Tang instead of Sui sculpt (same sculpt sui just has elf ears) I ended up having to mod him to have elf ears

 

I usually regret not buying something. There's outfits that I really love that have since gone out of stock, wigs that would be perfect that I passed on, option parts that I just couldn't justify at the time...

 

Yes and no!

My first ever impulse buy of a Dollzone Gene has been a roller-coaster of emotions for me, lmao. I love him every time I look at him but when I think about him I wish I would have gotten him a different body. I currently have a different Dollzone 70cm body without the wings on order for him... but I keep thinking oh maybe the wings aren't that bad even though I have to figure out replacing the teeny tiny s-hooks in his wings because they're too long and then that becomes a headache to think about. I'm just in love with his blushing too. SO, yes I regret going back on my original plan to have him on the 70cm no wings body with the Gene blushing/monster hands and feet BUT no, because he is really nice to look at. He's a really confusing doll for me. xD

 

The only real regret I've had is in where I'd ordered a doll from many years ago. It was when I'd ordered my Ringdoll Valo, and the stateside store I'd ordered from was not very professional. I'd inquired 3 months after ordering (in which I'd paid in full at the time of ordering), if they had an update on when they expected the arrival (I was quoted 4-5 months at order). I was responded to with an "Oh, we haven't even ordered it yet". A week later I got an email that they'd placed the order, and estimate was 3 months... 7 months later he arrives without warning, JUST as we were about to leave for a doll meet at a friend's house; so a surprise opening at a meet-up was a fun time. He was flawless and perfect, and made me forget all about the stress of the whole ordeal.

I never ordered from that place again, and I think they went out of business because their website is a dead link.

 

I kind of regret not getting the version 2 73 cm body for my LS Ying Zhou, since it does have that little bit extra height and the ankle extenders that the version 3 73 cm body doesn't. But I can always add lifts to his shoes to give him a bit more height if I want, and i do still think the sculpting is more aesthetically pleasing on the one I ordered, so ultimately I'm happy with my choice. But there's still that little voice that says "but what if" xD

 

I have one artist doll head on preorder, but I should have gotten 2.
I wanted 2 different looks for him, but I ordered just one before i realised i could just use 2 heads of the same sculpt. I could probably wait for the next preorder but who knows when that would be.

 

My regrets usually come in ordering something then a few days later seeing another incredible doll or outfit that I want appear. By that point I definitely don't have the money to purchase the new release so I'm left wondering if I made the right choice. Or like others have mentioned I regret not purchasing extra parts/the wrong resin color.

Out of all my purchases though my biggest regret was not checking the sizing when purchasing my second ever doll, now have an SD doll significantly smaller than all the rest she's almost completely unusable for photo sets though I love her