UK BJD Shoppers

I do sympathise, I'm in the same boat, no income and dwindling savings with a few years to an alleged pension. However, with Trumpton in power and Vice President Pugh, Secretary of State Barney McGrew, Senators Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb, who knows what is to come. We've got the delightful Miss May (or is it DisMay). Sometimes I just have to throw caution to the wind and damn the consequenses and sometimes I wish my sensible head would just bugger off. Oh well, at least you're now the owner of your sofa and bed. Now they're out of the way back to Doll shoppin'.

 

Patriotic duty. That's the best excuse for buying a doll I think I, and probably many others, have ever seen. Do it......for us.

 

Horrible exchange rate.
I paid for my RS, £175 with exchange rate. Thankfully being a relatively low priced doll it's a few quid difference. I think ended up being about £5 more than it would have been prior to this damn mess.
Which I can swallow. But more expensive dolls will have to wait.

 

Well it's $30 for his custom colour and a good $15? ish.. for the clear parts. He'd have been about £140 had I not gotten custom stuff I THINK... not sure. and of course shipping is included in that price, which was another $30. Erp.
But yeah, things were so much cheaper last year *sigh*

 

It has definitely upset me a lot! I now wish I had got into the hobby properly when I first discovered it! because I would have been able to put a doll together a lot cheaper than it is to do it now.

 

Typical! I put off buying anything after the vote and instead watched the goal post of the price of the doll I was saving up for move further and further away. But then I bought a head from a seller in the uk and he needed a body... Doll Family H are having a 10% off event so I figured that would cushion the hike a little. So yeah, like elve, I just placed an order and then the exchange rate improved a little XP

It has definitely impacted me. I planned to make a purchase in August as a birthday treat but I decided against it due to the increased cost. And I do feel like it is such a first world problem and I need to get a sense of perspective but it is a symptom of a far worse issue. Brexit is the British people blaming foreigners for their problems. Trump got in so he can make America great again by clearing out all the immigrants which I'm sure Native Americans are thrilled about. It won't be the first time we've blamed our problems on one specific set of people because that presents an easy solution. I really do think it's going to get worse before it gets better because we're trying to solve the problem of a leaky pipe by taking a chainsaw to it.

And to cap it all, when I went to Liquid Sugars Etsy page hoping for some nice uk based retail therapy, it's closed. Something about getting married, opening bigger better shop in new year...so yeah, okay that's lovely and in looking forward to see what they come up with ^^ but in the meantime, what other uk shops are there?

Okay I'm going back to Angelesque to hover my finger over the £19 wig that was £17.50 a couple of months ago XP

 

We're currently caught in what basically amounts to the perfect storm if you happen to be a private importer, as we all were. The massive economic uncertainty around the world fuelled by far right political movements is currently causing shockwaves large enough to effectively cripple many currencies, which on it's own, we MAY have been able to absorb since everyone else was in a similar boat. Unfortunately for us, though, it happened to coincide with a combined mass of new and fun ways for private companies to royally shaft us, looking at you, paypal and your vastly lagging, innacurrate exchange rates and you, Parcelfarce, for your laughably profiteering yet miraculously still legal 'handling fees'. All of this together? Well, it's going to effectively kill the BJD hobby in the UK stone dead. Whether that's a short or long term effect is down to how much the EU decide (quite rightly) to punish the UK on trading terms since 37% of our populace decided to vent their xenophobic little spleens in a non-legally binding referendum.

What do we do about this? Well, we need to learn to buy and sell within our own trade zones at least until the worlds currencies are more settled, and it's quite possible that the companies are going to have to take a hit on prices since large swathes of the world no longer have enough economic freedom to swan about buying luxury items.

Importing though, no. I'm not doing that until such a time as I can guarantee I'm not paying an extra 25-30% on top just because a small proportion of my country want to see the world burn.

As an aside, let's just put it out there that Theresa 'Red white and blue Brexit' May has managed to institute the snoopers charter during this chaos. It enables HMRC (among a wealth of other government bodies) to have access to your FULL internet activity, including anything in which you may have asked a company to mark down the value of your parcel, which is illegal. Or indeed, discussed doing so, say, on a public forum. Because we are actually living in an Orwell novel now.

Just saying.

 

@Lulu Very succinctly put. Bravo !!! Yes they kind of sneaked the snooping charter through while Trumpton was,......well, what was he doing...engaged in childish name calling and sniping with Hilary, and a suitable distraction to the UK public. They say it's in the public interest against terrorism......pfah.

 

@Mister M Don't forget 'toadying up with Farage the Barage in his tower of tasteless', that bit was important too, now! He's going to be the imaginary ambassador, don'tchaknow.

 

@Lulu Don't worry, we've always got Bojo the Buffoon. Secretary of a Right State of Foreign and Commonwealth affairs.

 

It's merely one of many charming little additions to the law she's shoving through while everyone is still busy looking the other way, so it may well be worth you having an eye on the news, at the moment, depressing though it is. Theresa May is worryingly unconcerned about invading the privacy of the UK's citizens, let's put it that way. I should add that she has also made it so that mp's are exempt from the snoopers charter, which I believe says it all, really.

 

Hope those spies having to look at everyone's net history like all that porn, because maaan there's gonna be so much of that to wade through.
Morons.

Those poor idiots.

Seriously though, how'd it get through? Hopefully we can get that unelected dictator cow out of the seat of power asap. The legality of so much of this stuff, I mean... you feel so helpless.

As citizens we just feel like we have zero protection, zero rights. It's disturbing. Part of me just wants to flee back to my home country but I doubt it's much better there, what with the earth itself rising up to destroy the capital.

I'm a roleplayer and i've always joked about being "on a watch list" over some of the stuff i've googled. Now I probably will be. Hauled up into court to explain why I needed to know how to make napalm or how long a body takes to decompose and being all "it was for a game!" I don't think will fly.

I'm doomed.