What did you do with the doll you tried to sell, but couldn’t get any buyers?

Honestly it depends on how badly I wanted to keep it. I was selling a doll recently and, before it sold, I played with changing up the character and completely reinventing the doll. The real issue was though that I only had the doll head and I kinda hate doing hybrids (the color matching, proportioning, all that, if I can avoid it I prefer to). Considering how low the doll was on my list of things I wanted to complete, he probably would've ended up sitting on a shelf for years.
I ended up selling the doll for less than I technically would have wanted but it was worth it to me because it cleared up space and I could be happy knowing that it was going to a collection that wanted it more.

 

Yes ! I have had a few heads listed in the past that took about a year. Sometimes I have to price drop but if it’s a doll you really don’t want to give away for cheap , that’s harder. I have had both of these situations. Some dolls I feel like I can re-do without seeing the old character but I have re-worked a few of them and they have worked out for me. Best of luck with your team!

I have also done some trading with a friend or sister. That way, she feels like she has a new doll to her and I feel the same so sometimes that works better.

 

I usually just keep dropping the price and accept trades. I don’t keep a doll I don’t love. And sometimes, I do gift them to friends.

 

Once I don't want to keep a doll, I keep lowering it until it sells. I hate losing money on them, but if I don't love them and have tried changing them up and nothing worked, they must go. I have, on occasion gifted dolls to people, but it really depends on the doll for me to do that. Usually I will take what I can get, and most of my dolls have sold without having to go too low on them. There were a few I got half what I paid or less, but those were ones I paid over a grand on, it was gut wrenching!

 

I just put mine in storage and am hoping someday a solution presents itself. I honestly don’t have any ideas right now. I might end up just giving it away.

 

Mostly it just hangs around in the outgoing stuff waiting for someone to show an interest - sooner or later someone is interested in buying or trading for it.

Teddy

 

I drop the price until it sells. I never post a doll for sale unless I'm really sure I want them gone. If I've priced it I no longer want it.

I have waffled over putting a doll up for sale before though. I always try redressing them, completely changeing their character etc. Until I either love them again or I'm sure I want to say goodbye.

 

If I really want to sell them, I drop the price. If there‘s no buyer like a year or I have the feeling that no one wants to buy it, then I would either just do 'giveaway' or keep it for my face up practice.

 

I had a body that doesn't fit my head, after trying to sell it without any success, I just went to buy a head for that body and got myself a new doll lol.
Having new doll that's not in my doll plan is a bit tricky for me though, for each of my doll I need to spend a lot of time and energy to bond, and having a new doll that I was not expecting just kind of threw me off my well maintained bus lol
And I form an attachment to doll very easily, so the moment I decided to give them a name/recognize them as "part of the family" it'd be almost impossible for me to part with them, yep I'm weird like that. XD

 

I usually don't buy a doll unless I "fall in love with them," so for me to sell one is a major thing.

The one time I sold a whole doll, when I bought it, I felt like "I should buy this doll to make my friend happy," but it wasn't a size I wanted. I won't do that again. The doll went to a person that collects that size, so it worked out okay.

Now, when I sell a doll, its usually because of something major that I don't like about it.

I bought a body for a head that was supposed to be a temporary hybrid, but it ended up being years before I was able to get a body from the same company that the head came from. So up for sale that old hybrid body goes. I refuse to drop the price. It stays up for sale until it sells.

Ryu

 

Οkay so I have quite the story for you xD; It's 2011, I order a sleeping minifee Celine head for modding (originally I don't find Celine attractive at all, but it was the perfect canvas for what I wanted to do). He comes home in 2012 and mods go excellently. Nice faceup too, he's got those perfect bad boy vibes going on... but his character doesn't click. So I try time and again to make him work as a character... buuuuuuut it's not happening.

So I try to sell him. Not once, but over 20 individual times over the years between 2012 until 2017. At one point it becomes a bit of a running joke. Last time I list him with about half my collection for sale as I was downsizing big time. I get over, and I kid you not, 50 inquiries on him, 15-20 of them being serious ones at that... but things happen and they all flake for one reason or another. The proverbial straw that broke the camel's back was that -after- I sold him and received payment and was getting ready to ship him out, the buyer messaged me to let me know that their car broke down and they would need me to refund the payment which, of course I did, because I'm not a heartless monster xD;

So by this point in time I kind of settle on the idea that... come on... after all these failed attempts to sell him maybe he's just meant to be with me, and actually selling him on would be a bad idea. So I decide to be brave and wipe his face, I give his body to another doll and order him a new body too, and give him his umpteenth character too. And in late 2018 he finally clicks. He clicks! After six years! I could not believe it! Turns out he was a protagonist in his own story all along, and I'm seriously so absolutely happy with him finally after all these years! Glad that I decided to give him yet another chance.

 

Many years ago I put up for sale the second doll I ever bought hes a B&G SP Sky and I just didnt seem to bond with his character and he wasnt getting much attention so I decided to sell him. I only got people wanting to buy his head and I didn't want to split the head from the body as I didnt know how long it would then take me to sell his body? The one person that was interested in the whole doll I never heard back from, sooooooo he stayed up for sale for I cant even remember how long?
Then I got the "I want a new doll vibe" and I thought to myself rather than buy a new doll to give revamping him a last chance I completely changed his look and character and it worked like a treat and now he is one of my favourites

 

Took it off the market and tried again a couple years later. The market changes so you never know if there will be interest in a given doll. You may also have to sell at a loss.

 

I only ever tried to sell one head. Nobody wanted him, and I did love the sculpt, it was the skin tone that gave me trouble ... so I took an old cheap body, modded it to fix some of its issues, dyed it to match the head and integrated him into the crew after all. I would have preferred a different skin tone, but he works just fine.

 

I've got a couple that I've tried to sell previously that never went anywhere. I've packed them away for the time being and I hope to relist them for sale sometime if it looks like there might be some market interest in them.

 

Honestly, I don't know …
I haven't sold a lot of dolls, but they usually went for an okay price. But I do have e few dolls now that are practically "unsellable":
A couple oft years ago, one of my collector friends died and left me her BJDs, most of them were pre-2011 and some very, very oldschool - huge eyes, large heads, single-jointed bodies. It was impossibe to keep all of them, so I rehomed some with my friends for not too much money and also gifted one to my sister. (btw my friend knew that I couldn't keep all of her crew and didn't mind me selling some)
I still have some MSDs left who is could only give away or sell at an insanely cheap price. I don't want to sell them for too cheap because my friend loved these dolls and it doesn't seem fair. I'd probably rather wait until someone comes along who feels drawn to one of them, then I might give them away.

 

This has not happened to me with bjd because I’m new but with other types of dolls I have successfully given a few makeovers that made me love them and want to keep them. Occasionally a makeover helps to sell them too! Show them blank and in multiple wigs and eyes to give people a “customize your doll” feeling which can attract more buyers. Sometimes I include a “surprise gift” too, it turns a stressful sale into a fun one for me. If all else fails I will gift it to a friend.

 

I got gifted a doll from a friend who didn't really use or want it anymore. She saw how much I cared for mine so she mailed it to me. I was appreciative but I haven't been able to bond with her yet. Right now she's in pieces cuz I need to restring her (waiting on string to get here). I've also ordered a bunch of wigs and outfits to see if I can come up with a character for her. I don't think I'll sell her since she was gifted to me but I totally get the not feeling attached to a doll. I look forward to having her be a part of the family though

 

I've never been unable to sell one that I really tried to get rid of... But that said, I've also just given away a few inexpensive dolls and freebie heads and such that it just didn't seem worthwhile to seriously try selling.

I also had one doll that I listed for sale for a few days, and then changed my mind about. That was Poet, my Soom Jet. In the end, I ended up keeping him. I decided that even though I was never going to play the character-game with him, he was such a gorgeous, soulful-looking sculpt that I still liked having him in the crew.