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How is the BJD market fairing now?

Apr 23, 2016

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    1. So since some of the older sculpts are up on the market, does this mean that Angell-Studio Claudia V2 or some of the anthro SOOM Monthly Dolls are creeping in the market?
       
      #21 TheYUO, Jul 13, 2016
    2. I don't remember seeing Claudia recently, but then I wasn't looking for her, either... Soom dolls in general do pop up pretty regularly, though. It just takes patience to wait for the one you want.
       
      #22 Brightfires, Jul 13, 2016
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    3. Dang on Claudia, but yay for the Sooms. I'll just happily wait around on the market and just watch, but thank you for letting me know!
       
      #23 TheYUO, Jul 13, 2016
    4. its really wierd, if you are a seller; its hard at the moment, i sometimes have general chats with dealers in the EU and they have said that its been very slow lately and as a seller myself, i can back that up fully, it IS slow, people just dont have the money or have other things they need to pay for asap. its just life sadly, its a slow year it seems.
      but if you are a Buyer, there is tons of people selling so you are spoilt for choice! but like some people have said, unpopular sculpts just dont seem to be shifting at all sadly.
       
      #24 chiichanny, Jul 13, 2016
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    5. I always price my secondhand doll items fairly - less retail in most cases, and i've never had trouble selling before using the marketplace here. But the last 18 months have been really bad. I literally can't sell anything, even heavily reduced. One head, which refused to sell for under a 3rd of the original retail price, I eventually de-listed. I've never had do this before even in 2008-9 when we were in deep recession.

      The other week I was looking for a fairyland dealer in the EU, all four dealer's listed on the DOA wiki were out of business. So it doesn't seem to be great on the new side of things either, at least in the EU. I mean, someones got to be buying dolls as new ones are coming out all the time. I did see two others of the head I was trying to sell on the market place got purchased, priced slightly higher then mine. So who knows? To be fair, I do think we have it worse then most here in the UK - shipping prices have gone úp so much since the Royal Mail was fully privatized. But i'll have to be a lot more careful about what I pick up in the first place in the future. I rarely sell dolls as it is, but in the past I would occasionally buy the odd head out of pure curiosity, which probably won't happen anymore.
       
      #25 Sillypeach, Jul 13, 2016
    6. Being so new to the hobby (2 weeks in!), I'm willing to take some gambles on second hand dolls.
       
      #26 Anthora G, Jul 30, 2016
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