How do you know when to sell?

I sold the Brownies I had. This was about the time there were all the problems with Felix and I'd lost money including some a friend have me to make a group purchase and looking at the dolls made me feel guilty.

 

Yeah my KDF was a birthday present split between an ex, my mom and myself, and she was my first resin BJD so I'm conflicted at the thought of selling her, but I guess if I find an owner like you did, I'd feel a little better knowing she's going to a good home

Yeah when I see her sitting on my shelf I feel bad, I could use the money on rent or something, or put it towards school, but then the though of selling a gift makes me feel guilty too XD

 

So the question I have to ask is, Have you ever sold a doll, and what made you decide to sell him/her?
I have; I sold one full doll and two heads. The heads moved on because they were SDs that never really had a place with my collection to begin with; one was purchased as part of a MNM order where I liked the idea at the start, but I had no solid plans of what to do with him and no other dolls in that scale, so rather than invest in a body when I had no ideas anyway, I sent him on his way. The other head was from a MNM order that went awry; the order was for MSD heads, but when they arrived they'd been mis-sculpted as SD! Since I'd wanted the head in MSD scale, that one went on its way as well.

The full doll I sold on was a limited that I loved when I saw her, but never bonded with her; like the others, she was also SD and the only one I had. Because of her heavy fantasy legs, I always had a very hard time keeping her sitting anywhere, and her limited nature and price tag (plus all her very delicate parts) made me nervous about handling her. She generally sat kind of heaped on a shelf (so her legs wouldn't pull her off it) mostly out of my mind, and when I did look at her all I could see was the price I'd paid for her... and that was the sign it took. I didn't see her as a character like I do the rest of my dolls, just as an expensive object, so like the SD heads before her, she moved on as well, to a very happy new owner.

 

Tengu, I suggest speaking to your mom about it, if neither of you can decide what to do with cherry, then try finding a new home for the doll. Since your mom helped you buy her, I would assume she has some understanding of how you feel about dolls and would be able to offer a fair opinion on the matter my mom is of the mind "sell all your dolls, give me a new car" =w=; lol, which is why only my boyfriends opinions on them matter. (tho i do take into consideration my 6 year olds opinion too, since she plays with them)

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I've sold 5 dolls over the past few years. One of them I had bought to practice faceups on, but things got hectic shortly after I got her and I never had time for her. Her sculpt didn't fit in with the rest of my collection at all and while she was cute, I didn't love her. Another I had admired online for several years, but when I finally got him, I realized I didn't love him as much in person. I started drifting out of the hobby entirely after I got him, so I didn't really feel like trying to make him work. Two of them were really great and I probably could have worked with them more, but at the time I sold them I had been out of the hobby for a couple years and didn't think I would ever be coming back, so I didn't see the point in hanging on to dolls I hadn't bonded with. (I actually found the new owner of one of those on tumblr and it made my day. SO glad to see that doll being well-loved, because she's beautiful and deserves it.) My Puki was ridiculously cute, but I just really don't like that size.

I actually just bought a secondhand Cherry a couple weeks ago and I absolutely adore her. She's exactly what I've been wanting in a female doll since I got into the hobby and I'm soooo glad I have her now. I guess I'm just trying to say that a doll you're no longer in love with will probably end up being someone's dream :3 Though if you're unsure of selling, wait on it for a while and think about it! You can always buy another doll, but you might never get your doll back, so you don't want to regret it!

 

I tought I'd never sell one of my dolls, but I noticed I wasn't really interested in my DZ Annie anymore and that my taste in msd dolls had shifted. I've played with the idea of selling her before and when I found absolute peace with it, even with the possibility of her being "butchered" by her new owner, I opened a MP thread. She was eventually sold on the Dutch equivalent of Ebay and the lady came to my house to visit. She even appeared to like the face-up. So she is now going to be pretty display doll there and I don't regret selling her one bit. I loved her and played with her a lot, but once I lost interest I decided it was better to let her go and buy the msd girl I had recently fallen in love with instead.

 

I've sold a lot, mostly because I generally make myself sell one before buying a new one now. how I decide:

-If I've lost interest in the character
-I roleplay my dolls, so if I don't play them in over a month, the bond gets pretty weak
-The doll doesn't fit a different character
-My tastes have changed and I no longer find the doll pretty
-I find a better sculpt for the character
-I just feel overwhelmed like I have too many and need to clear out
-I haven't done anything with them in weeks or longer


If I'm still not sure, sometimes I'll box the doll and stick them in the closet. If, after a month, I don't miss them or pull them back out, it's time for them to go.

 

I thought about selling my Minifee Marcia. Only for the fact that I needed funds for another doll. I had a hard time posting the listing and only updated it a couple of days and then decided not to sell her. I had her all packaged away in the box and took her out again yesterday. I ultimately decided not to sell her and I am really glad I didn't because I know now that it is something I would have regretted.

Haven't sold a doll yet.

 

I have sold dolls either because I wanted/needed the extra money or because I was just frustrated with them. My fairyland bisou twins, puki cupid, and pipos charlotte went because i needed the money for other things. I was tired of fighting my soom little gem kids so off they went!

 

I've sold quite a few dolls, heads, parts... The first doll I sold was my B&G Elf Afra. I love him to bits when I got him, but I couldn't get his face-up the way I wanted it. A friend of mine who was much more skilled in the art of face-ups agreed to give him one for me, and it was perfect and lovely and I kept it for a couple years, until it started running off the chin. I asked the same friend if he would do another one, and he agreed, and so I left the head at his house. It took months before he even started, and by the time I got the head back, it had been gone so long I no longer felt bonded to the doll.

The second one I sold was actually one of my grail dolls, a Souldoll Celestyn. He was beautiful, but he was impossible, especially for an unexperienced doll owner. He couldn't stand, he couldn't sit, his wig was constantly a tangled mess, no clothing fit him because he was such a weird size... I really struggled with the decision to sell him, because he was a discontinued sculpt, and they don't come along very often, but it was the right decision at the time. I would love to buy another Celestyn one day, now that I now more about how to handle dolls.

I sold my Soom Borol, as he was a gift from my ex and I never found a character for him. She went to a good friend of mine, who loves her so no regrets there.

I sold my Soom Migma pretty much as soon as I got her, because I just wanted the human head. I've sold that, now, too, as the doll never seemed to click with the character as much as I hoped. I am sad about that one, because Migma is a gorgeous sculpt. I'll definitely miss seeing her in my collection.

The heads, I sold because I never bought them bodies. Some of the heads I had had been sitting in storage, untouched, for probably 5 years. Plus, I tend to impulse buy heads I like hahaha... They weren't as hard to let go, because I never completed them or really had concrete characters for them anyways.

Overall, I don't regret selling most of them, because I've gotten some great new dolls I really love instead.

 

It's gotta be a really hard decision if you only have a coue of dolls. I'd like to think that I'd be practical and sell a doll on if I started to get too many and space became an issue. I think it would be interesting to see a split between how many people sold their dolls for purely practical reasons, and how many for something more personal, such as just growing apart from them and losing interest over time.

I'm interested in buying a second hand doll, and this would be a question I would definitely be interested in asking anyone I was buying from.

 

That is the excact experience I have also had. When I got my third doll, a 72 cm boy, he appeared to me way too heavy and way too big for my taste. But after couple of days and switching different wigs, taking pictures...all that made me fall in love with him. He is beautiful.
My other doll, however, that i got 4 month ago and that Iwas adoring during the first couple of months... I started feeling cold towards her recently....Maybe it is time for a little image change.

 

I sale the doll when I stop feeling anything to it and start thinking about money I can have for it.

 

I like to wait a while and see if I can bond. Sometimes a change of eyes does the trick, or even a new set of clothes. If I've tried several faceups and none of them work out for me, then I start thinking of letting a doll go. Or, if going through my pictures I find that I haven't taken pictures of my doll in over a year. Or if a doll has been with me for over a year and still doesn't have a faceup. Of course there are exceptions but I think my collection got too large too quickly, so I'm finally starting to understand for myself when I need to let a doll go.