Never ever sold a doll?

I don't own many BJDs but I've been collecting fashion dolls as well for years and so far I haven't sold any. There were times I was tempted to do so because I wanted the money for another doll but I always changed my mind and all my dolls have been staying permamently in my house.
The main reason is I always create a sort of emotional bond between me and the doll I get and it would be very sad for me to pack her and send to another owner. So, unless I need the money invested in dolls for some really important matters, I don't think I'll ever sell my dolls.
Although there's a saying "never say never"

 

I never sold a doll. i dont think i could ever see one so my doll go. I make to sad to part with anyone of my dolls!
I WOULD NEVER CONSIDER IT EVER!!!

 

I've never sold a doll, not even an event head! I almost feel the same way about dolls as I do about dogs- I want to offer them a "forever home" where they belong. This sounds very sentimental but once I buy a doll, turn it into its character and bond with it, they become part of my family. I wouldn't think of giving my brother away for adoption, and neither would I sell a doll.
Now, if I was incredibly poor and faced either selling my dolls or homelessness? It would be very very hard but the dolls would have to go. But I know once I got back on my feet I would aim to recover my collection again. Whether they would be as good as the originals I don't know. I hardly want to think about it, it's such a dire prospect!

 

Who here has never sold a doll?

Me!Me!!, just sold the body because the body was kinda not really suit my doll's head
What are your reasons?

i'm just a newbie to this hobby, and i never bought them unless i really fell in love with them, and i will feel quite uncomfortable without them. so every doll that i have i have to sure i never regret when i have them
Would you ever consider it?

Not at this moment, and probably never in the future.. i threat them as a part of my family, i dun care what my family said, i dun care my friend said them horrible and creepy. unless someone uses my families's life and forcing me to selling them x.x​

 

**Who here has never sold a doll? ~I almost count. I sold a Soso after seeing a WTB for her before Christmas. There were several motivating factors at the time. But I missed her so much that when I got my "eBay bucks" {which is money to buy with on eBay that has to be spent close to the time it is issued}
...AND I saw a Soso for sale -- I bought another Soso. I love her to pieces. Not likely to ever offer this one to anyone, at any price. I know my first one was dearly wanted and is loved very much where she is. I always felt like she belonged where she went. The one I have now feels like she is the one "meant for" me. This all comes from the heart and imagination, I know it is not rational.
I also sold a Fairyland face plate, but someone offered almost double what I paid for it in the WTB -- which I noticed before the little faceplate had even arrived. I made the plan to rehome it before I ever saw it. It was one of their ChicLine and I had nothing else that size to go with the face plate. I bought it mostly out of curiosity to see the size. I think they are the one thing I don't have any of (yet)...

**What are your reasons? I bought a drastic [?--searching for the right word and I saw this word used earlier in the same context] number of dolls. That is, a LOT of dolls in one year. Well, next month is the anniversary of my first doll purchase and it will then be one year. But I love each one. I haven't been able to figure this out completely. I know it is a combination of factors that make me want to keep each one. Heart attachment, artistic possibilities that are endless, and maybe some sense of wanting completeness?? By this I mean, this feeling I want one of every type, as I see them. I want to create clothes to sell, and I wanted to have a large range of the many body styles and sizes. But it goes beyond that. Maybe like I am building a happy family. I haven't completely analyzed this drive to collect. I do have my top favorites, but I love every one of them. I'm talking about over 100 dolls and over 40 heads, and some bodies not yet coupled. Even here I am shy to admit the numbers, as I project some unkind opinions about me coming from other people. And I do wonder a little myself about the sanity. But it is suppose to be a business venture, not just a hobby for me. I have a very tiny human family. I was the only-child of an only-child...never had children and now cannot have them for medical reasons. I know these are pieces of the puzzle for me. Plus an unfortunate childhood that I am kind of repairing as I go along. I am disabled which is a very complex situation, so I can't hold a regular job and I'm always juggling ways to use all my options to keep a roof over my head.

**Would you ever consider it? -->My dream/goal is to give my dolls something unique from my artistic gifts. I've been a free lance portrait artist and my specialty, outside of commissions from photographs, has been women's faces. I bought my first doll as part of an application for art grant money. My original plan was to send dolls into the world with something of my own essence in them, for other people to enjoy. I want to involve the dolls in telling a story [my story maybe] and helping other people in some way with them.

I'm feeling kind of...hmmm...stingy, and also like a doll glutton? Heh/ My whole orientation to them is so different from anyone else I've read. I feel like I am suppose to, or I HAVE TO sell...This is the first time I have even tried to put into words what is going on with me. But from the beginning, dolls became the absolute central focus of my life. Other than my relationship to God. Right now I am suppose to be working on 2 dog commissioned portraits. And I'm wandering around in DOA.

I'm trying to persuade my heart to agree to a plan to at least begin to thin out my male/adult dolls. But the choice gets hard when it comes to actually placing a particular one on the market. Maybe I will just paint portraits of the dolls, and keep my dolls? Haaa

 

Who here has never sold a doll?

Thats me

What are your reasons?

Too much hastle, setting up accounts, sorting out postage etc

Would you ever consider it?

Yes I have one I want to sell a LE one of ten, but I have never sold anything, so haven't really got a clue as to how to go about it. Although as I said above I know the basics

 

Who here has never sold a doll?
I've never sold a doll, not even considered it. I have 5 dolls and 2 floating heads.
What are your reasons?
I love my boys, they are a family of characters and each of them is special in their own way.The thought of sending them off to a new family, would break me. I can not see them as a material matter, they are so much more then that for me.

Would you ever consider it?
I never say never. But right now I can not imagine I would. Though I don't want my family to grow to big. So I have to be careful about each purchase.

 

I've never sold a doll. Although I expect that's something to do with the fact that I currently only own 2 dolls, 1 of which I've not received yet. I would never sell Cesavier unless I desperatley needed too to save my life or something. He's my first doll and I've bonded with him really well, he has an entire character which just seemed to 'form' without me thinking about it.

I'm a little anxious to see if I bond with my girl as well as I have with my boy. I love her sculpt but I don't yet know what personality she'll have, and if (being initially a boy head sculpt) I'll see her as feminine enough.

If I ever really just did not attatch to a doll (which is unlikely, as I attatch very easily to things) I would consider selling it if modding it did not help so that it could go to a home where it would be appreciated and loved.

 

I've never sold a doll either! Nor am I planning to xD

I am the current proud owner of six BJDs (although two are considered OT) plus a pair of floating heads and they're all characters that are dear to me. Recently I was slightly overwhelmed by the number (when I realized that oh-my-god they've taken over the room) but the feeling went away soon after I came to terms with it and hasn't bothered me since.

I would never ever sell a doll unless I were in dire need to or something of the sort (and even then I'd only sell their bodies so I can simply purchase a new one for them down the line when I would be able to afford it)

 

One time I said I would never sell a doll and people called me childish and said that styles change. I laugh at this because, these people don't know me personally and secondly, my style hasn't changed in 21 years and I don't think it ever will. So I still say I would never sell a doll. Not for financial problems, taste change. Not ever.

 

Who here has never sold a doll?
Never sold any, not even parts of it.

What are your reasons?
I kind of buy them because I liked the doll and each of them has special memories with me.

Would you ever consider it?
Perhaps not. Unless there is a ridiculous great offer (which is very unlikely ha).

 

Oh, I see that I responded to this back in 2010 and…I actually still have never sold a doll.
I did consider it at one point, but nothing ever came of the idea. Hehe, everyone is still here.

 

I only have a few BJDs, but it's hard for me to imagine selling them. I still have every off-topic doll I've ever owned. Like, from the time I was a baby, and I'm going to be thirty by the end of this year. Some of them I really should sell, but I'm afraid I'll regret it or that I'll have a renewed interest in them. I mean, I don't even know where all of them are, but I know we kept everything.

 

I have never sold a doll. Even though I had a hard time bonding with my boy, I never gave up on him.
I would be absolutley petrified of trying to sell things on the internet.

 

Well, count me in on this group, I've never sold a doll before and will probabply not do so in the future.

Spare parts are another matter, things that came home and were not the right ones, but the only ones aviable at the moment. When the reight thing arrives, the spare goes. But compleat dolls, as in head and body, no.

Why? One of the ground rules in the hobby I made before getting my first doll. And if it waasn't, well, my dolls have characters I'm very attached to. I wouln'd want to let them go.

I have not yet been in a situation were I had to think about selling. When it comes, I'll deal with it.

 

Never sold one, but planned to. No one bought her though, so I kept her and she is now waiting for my sisters birthday, to be one big surprise.

 

I haven't sold any of my dolls yet and I really have no intentions to. When I buy one, I put so much thought into shelling characters into them and it I become sentimentally attached to them regardless if my plans of putting them together fall through.

That being said, I'm not saying that I will never sell one of my dolls, but as it stands right now I just don't see it happening.

 

Who here has never sold a doll?
I haven't.

What are your reasons?
I bought all of mine very carefully, to shell specific characters.

Would you ever consider it?
Possibly in the future - if I see a doll that better fits the character or (wayyyy in the future) I need to scale down my collection.

 

Who here hs never sold a doll?
I haven't sold any of my dolls yet.

What are your reasons?
Dolls are expensives and I doubt it's a easy task to resale one. I buy only the dolls I really love and the one I have space enough for it.

Would you consider it?
Maybe, if I need money. I would probably be more interested in selling doll clothes, because I buy them too many dress and my dolls rarely wear them all...

 

Who here has never sold a doll? Me! *waves hands*

What are your reasons? I buy all my dolls to fit a specific character (well ok so technically I kinda did buy like 4 of them as complete impulse buys) but in general, I spend usually months picking out the perfect doll for who I want them to be, more months saving up for them and planning what eyes they will have, what wig, what clothing etc and I only ever have money to buy them at my birthday and christmas time, along with whatever small amounts of money I can scrape together in the in between times. They mean so much to me and I spend so much time trying to make them the perfect doll, that I just don't have any reason or desire to sell them. They are a very big part of me and they always fit the characters I want them to be. Well except for one of my boys, but he ended up being perfect for another character I loved so he's still staying with me.

Would you ever consider it? I do have to admit though, despite what I've said above, I do and have considered it. Most of the time, even my impulse buys are fairly thought out and planned. All except one. My Elfdoll Hazy head is my only true impulse buy and since I've gotten her, I've considered selling her a few times. She just didn't work out for what I had planned and she's the only doll I've ever been unable to bond with. I'm making one last ditch effort to fall in love with her by sending her off to my friend for a face up that actually works and is fairly similar to the original plan, but still a little different and... well actually my last ditch effort will be if this plan doesn't work out, but even then, because I just don't like or want to sell my dolls seeing how hard it is for me to save up for them, I may still keep her and work on things until something works out right. The rest are most definitely always staying. Selling them even for the money is simply not a consideration for me.