That Awful Moment- After Selling a Doll

I have sold more dolls than I have kept. It's part of the fun of the hobby for me to be able to see them, then keep them only if I fall in love with them. Only once have I regretted selling one, and it was in my first year of being in the hobby. I loved his head, but hated his body. I was on my own in the hobby, wasn't a member here, knew no-one who collected. Duh!!! I could have kept the head and hybridded him on a body I liked! Didn't know, hadn't thought of it! You live and learn, that's how it's supposed to be. Decisions you have made in the past will affect decisions you make in the future. Next time, you'll look at something you want to sell and ask yourself if it could work for you in a different way, before you sell it. In the meantime, pay off your Unoa, there will be many more opportunities to buy something to customize down the road.
I've never sold another doll I really loved, but I have hybrids now!!!

 

I sold my Soso and every time I saw one I missed her dearly. Not the end of the world. I bought another one. All the dolls I've sold so far, I've only responded to people I ran across who had put out a WTB or WTT. How I feel...one was a Soony and I know a lot of people want her. But I know the person who got her really wanted her and is doing beautiful things with her. I just sold off all my Obitsu larger dolls. I am trying to select areas to focus on because my collections is huge. I miss them, and I still have heads for those bodies and now no bodies. I liked the different way they operated. But one went to a friend and I get to see that doll. I can't believe it is the same doll. AMAZING what he has done with her. And the other FOUR went to one place. Husband and wife both love Obitsu, Dollfies and my dolls are being re-born with them. I'm glad I have all the dolls I have. I learn something from each one, either about the doll, or about myself. I could probably not handle this hobby if it weren't for the secondary market. I hope we just keep adding new people who love the hobby and enjoy the opportunity to let go of dolls sometimes. Even if it is only to realize how much it is a loved type and you go looking again for the same one.

 

I had sold a doll once but I regretted it almost immediately after.
I eventually saved up enough money to buy her again, it's too hard to let go of my girls!

 

oh yes. i sold my resin evangeline ghastly gothic vigil. i regret it all the time. i will never find another one, nontheless be able to aford her again!

 

I have the same issue, Calivano. It just feels wrong selling them. I have given away several to special people, or people I know who want to get into dolls, but cannot afford one.

 

I did once with my Volks Aya. I traded her for a Volks Carol body and later all I could think was why did I sell her. She is super rare so I may never be able to buy her again.

 

I recently sold a doll and yeah, I'm missing him...I only had him for a couple weeks, but I found one I liked better. While I do like the new doll, I miss the other one. He was so small and cute, I can't help but miss him/:
I also sold another doll that I miss...but my new girl is wearing her clothes so it makes me feel like she's kind of here.
I don't really "regret" selling them, but I do miss them both sometimes.

 

I was sorry that I sold a doll once. It was very hard! The firm don't manufactures this doll now... I hope to buy again the same.

 

I'm having the same dilemma right with one of my bjds! I really adore her body sculpt and face-up but I feel her size is way too big for me to enjoy to the full... so I've been thinking if I should sell her or not because I like to look at and play with mine and instead this one is simply still lying naked in her box
Although I've been collecting other kind of dolls for years I'm fairly new to bjds so I'm hesitating to let her go worrying I may seriously regret it later as the bjds from this maker are quite hard to get hold of, especially with that amazing face-up!
Having said that I must say with my other dolls there have been similar times where I felt the need to sell a doll and worried if I would miss her and then, after the doll was sold, it was a relief in realising that actually it was the right thing to do as the dolls all went to new good loving homes where they would be enjoyed and I wasn't really missing it after all.
A good way to test if you're ready to let go of a doll could be putting her away from sight for a while, and see how you like your doll family without that particular doll around, how harmonious it is etc. and if you seem to miss it. Usually that test seems to work for me in deciding, but not without first torturing myself for months on end with the "sell or not sell" dilemma before taking the sell plunge lol! I wish I could be more decisive...

 

Yes. I bought one doll because she was an awesome price, I know the Amazon dealer had made a mistake. I didn't like the doll, but I grabbed her outfit and then sold her nude. Now, I actually like the doll and bought one just to customize. Smacks forehead.

 

Three times. I have sold so many dolls I don't even remember some of them XD but there were three I totally regretted.
One the first one was my Migidoll Miho. I went through about 6 heads after that before I got a new one. The second was my MNF Karsh. I only lasted a few months before putting a new on on layaway. The third was my MNF Scar Breakaway. He was the weirdest...I did a lot to get both the OE and SP heads, and both scar arms and when I finally had that doll put together I hated him. I sold him off in parts. It took more than a year for me to realize that was a huge mistake...now I'm finally getting a "new" one, but unlike the first two, he's not going to be the same doll\character again, I'm doing something completely different with him.

 

I only really regretted a couple of dolls I've sold. One of them was mostly because the whole transaction was a nightmare. The other was one who I think I was more attached to the character than the doll itself. I ended up buying him again years later, and selling him again...

But, hopefully I just sold my very last doll~! I'll be happy when she's safely arrived at her new home. I don't regret selling her at all, only buying her. I have no plans to let go of my current five.

 

I collect all sorts of dolls and over the years have sold several. I do the "put the dolls away from sight" test to make sure I'm ready to let them go. However, saying this, out of all the dolls sold over the years there was only one particular limited doll I regretted selling and had that feeling for quite some time. Even though she became available on the secondary market from time to time I didn't repurchase her. Something just held me back, now when I see pictures of her I can appreciate her but have no longings to own her.

 

I've only ever sold a doll once, in 8 years, out of this whole huge harem... and it was only so that I could purchase the same doll in a different color resin. No regrets, per se, but selling was still hard to do. Iplehouse's first LE Tedros 'Circus Master' only came in Realskin; although I loved the guy, I had always wanted him to be Brown instead. So as soon as the Brown 'Tokyo Story' LE came along, I snapped him up, because THAT was really the man I had wanted in the first place. But.... even though I had the new/better doll at home when I sold the old one... as soon as it came time to pack him up to deliver to his new owner, I got all misty & gushy & sad again. ;;^^

And even though the old doll now lives just a few miles away, and I get to visit him every time I go visit my friend Dannyboy, I still get all misty when I see him. I don't regret the sale at all, but there is a clingy little part of me that will always miss Hassan #1-- even though I don't think about him at all when I'm at home with the clearly superior Hassan #2.

Geeez, just going through that one sale, it was so hard! Turns out I am far too sentimental to sell dolls! So I make sure I only buy for True Love!

 

I'd never sell one of my dolls. I just love them to much. I would totally regret selling them.
I'll only think about finding new homes when I'm really old or when I know I'll die soon... (I want to find a good home for them if I know I'll die... luckily I see no reason for this for many many years)

 

I usually know when it's time to sell.. I'm not bonding at ALL, and I have absolutely no interest in trying to. That's when I can let go with no regrets.
However, there is one girl I sold, who I couldn't bond with that well, I couldn't take good photographs off... but she was just so beautiful. Every now and then I kind of regret it. I think of when I first saw her, how much I LOVED her. But I just try to remind myself of when I finally had her, she wasn't what I expected. You don't really see her sculpt around, so I know it'll be tough to try to find her again if I ever want her back REALLY bad. But that's okay, I have a whole family to give my love to.

 

I've sold enough off over the years. No regrets.

I box them up and store them for a while if I'm thinking about selling, though. If I don't feel the need to rescue them from storage within a few days, they're generally good to go.

 

I have some regrets. I attach too much and usually need the money so I have to sell my Kaye Wiggs Layla and fair elf Tillie are my regrets

 

Umm few times? Usually I don't regret, but MS no.1 is one of the exception. I sold it twice and I bought it three times. haha

 

Never had that moment. I've had a number of dolls that didn't fit with my collection or didn't fit the character I planned. Sold them without a moment of regret. It's the character I bond with, not the physical doll.