Volks Super Dollfie - SD, SD13, SD16, SD17, SDGr, SDGou & FCS - XXXIII

Thank you very much! It's not the best picture, I think I should make a better photo of my Volks crew soon!

 

Y'all so I thought you could cancel Volks lottery entries before the lottery entry time period was over? It says that in their rules. I ended up seeing a lot of owner photos on twitter and decided Ludo wasn't right for the character I want him for.

I went to cancel just now because its about 8am JST and the lottery period ends at midnight tonight. But the system wont let me cancel as it says items are in "Cannot be canceled because it includes items that are in preparation for shipping or that cannot be canceled." theres actually a button now that is allowing me to add to cart (but I can't actually add it because it says an identical item hasn't been shipped yet). Did I win? lol. I haven't got a "winning" email those aren't supposed to even go out until May 25th.

I have only participated in one other Volks lottery and it was on the USA site but the "add to cart" button didnt pop up until I won. I messaged Volks asking to cancel I hope they don't blacklist me. It says in their rules too that I can cancel before the order period is over. Has this ever happened to anyone before? I mean if I have to buy him its not the end of the world (I kinda wanted his wolf parts still regardless) but would rather not have to go through the hassle if possible lol.

 

I think you may be confusing the cancelation of the payment section of the rules with the actual entry. The payment charge will post as pending, then will fall off until you win. If you lose, that is what will be canceled. You cannot cancel lottery entries:

The good news is, if you do win and change your mind, it will not be difficult to find him a new home! He was extremely popular at Dolpa and sold out in A group, and there were very few available at the After Event. He seems quite popular!

But, for the sake of your experience, may the odds NOT be in your favor!

 

It's in the "shopping guide" for lottery not on the actual lottery page but it says "The contents cannot be changed or canceled outside the lottery application period. Please be careful not to make a mistake." I took that to mean I could cancel within the lottery application period. But I took what you quoted to mean if you won you couldn't cancel your application or your order. I haven't won yet and it was still within the application window so I feel like based on what they said on the site I should be able to cancel. Haha now I am a bit confused.

But in this lottery period like last when I entered for Regulus since I used a credit card (at least with Capital One) the initial payment charge only lasts as pending for 2 days and falls off. That doesn't mean they can't still charge it if you do win but its not currently held. The money only comes out of your account fully if you use a debit card.

Yeah I think I could sell him easily enough though, I didn't know he sold out so fast ty!

 

Thanks for that info! Makes me wonder if Volks may have done a smaller run of Ludo than, say, Lady Oscar 2nd edition, being unsure of his popularity. At any rate it confirms for me that getting anything less than an A or B group ticket would be a waste of time standing in the C, D, E etc. lines; better to go wait in the General Admission line (speaking from experience in December .)

 

Yeah I feel like that would be contradictory, because once you've won its no longer the application period anyways. The details on the actual lottery page are always the same for every lottery doll regarding application cancelations, so I wonder if it's just a weird translation on the shopping guide!

@beamlette how I wish Volks would give us numbers! It's always entirely possible they saved more for online too, but we shall never know for sure! Good luck if you're going for him!

 

I have only entered VolksUSA lotteries before, but with the current exchange rate it's very tempting to try the international site (especially since I also have the CA sales tax). Best luck to everyone who entered! I look forward to the photos

 

I don't know if the mailing list changed for VolksUSA but I wandered on to the site the other day to discover a sale on books including Another Yourself 2009?!?! I ended up buying enough books to get a little Shirokuma Setsuchan! Another Yourself 2009 is MASSIVE. I'm so glad I caught it on sale ...but it doesn't fit on any shelf so I have no idea where to store it.

 

Sweet photo! "Another Yourself" is an absolute treasure, a must-have for the Volks enthusiast. I believe it came with a DVD with charming footage. If memory serves, some soft-focused Sato footage, a segment of Valico (retired Volks faceup artist) restringing a Michele, and there are cute "commercials" for Tokyo Boys and Kohya?

I took advantage of the same sale. I purchased a bunch of older issues of Haute Doll and FDQ (a buck each!) and have been enjoying the nostalgia, reading articles about BJD veterans, written by BJD veterans.

 

Mine didn't come with a DVD, but I'd love to watch that someday! Perhaps it was a different book? Or maybe I haven't discovered its hiding place. It did come with a very old lottery entry form for SD16 Pearl though! Am I too late?

I'm glad you scored too! These old publications are so much fun to look at and it can't get much better than $1. I'm looking for the issue of Haute Doll with Aimee's omukae photos (August 2005?), but I didn't see it in stock. Someday!

 

Good news: a nice person uploaded the videos on YouTube. You will see that restringing tutorial I mentioned (done by another Volks employee, not Valico, who actually is featured in different segment).

 

Wow those videos are incredible, I’m so glad they were posted and so glad you shared them. Thank you! I can’t believe they go all the way back to 2006- I got into dollfies in 2007 so it really takes me back to that time. It makes me nostalgic for the simpler early era of dollfies!

 

I love her! Old Volks...

 

@eleniel, congratulations on scoring that fabulous old Megu! That attitudinal expression, so typically Megu, which is what I've always loved about default Megus

 

Your Megu is so gorgeous!

 

@eleniel Your Megu is so beautiful! Is this her old default faceup? If it was the original, I would keep it
I remember when I got my old Sara (1999), her faceup was part default but also enhanced (they didn'd take out the eyes and just painted over the default, maybe they also changed the lashes - it looked terrible). I repainted mine, but still feel sad because I had removed the old faceup which still got this ancient feeling.