When you were waiting for your FIRST doll...

Yeah it definitely was, I had nothing but endless days ahead of me. Eventually though I just forgot...it's not exactly the right term but you start doing what you normally do, the time passes quickly again. The point where time gets really slow is when you see it has been shipped. You have maybe a week before your doll arrives and every minute lasts a year.

 

Yes. The answer is a big yes. I was so anxious and eager for him to come home; I didn't know exactly how long he would take or how the shipping would be like and how long that would take and I was nearly driven insane @_@;;; but you get used to it by time, I'll promise you that.

Also long layaways kind of kill the eagerness of wanting a doll here and now to be honest. xP; There are times during the wait that one may become eager all over again but eh, one can handle these I think. Admittedly I get most impatient when the end of the layaway is growing near or close to the shipment date. To give an example of that I've been waiting for my DDS Momo ten months now but still haven't felt the wait gnawing at me but as for my Minifee Ante who I'm paying off on the 13th? Yes, I'm all over the place waiting for her... xD

 

I'm actually going to say no...
I basically put it out of my mind when my first girl was on her way. I was really busy at work from the moment I ordered her to when she shipped 3 months later so I didn't feel that much :P Definitely harder now !!!!!

 

Not for me. I'm kind of a patient person and I knew from the start that it would take a long time to get it. So it was ok. I think of my dolls so far the hardest was waiting for a body for a floating head. I wanted to have the doll complete so I could start making clothes and stuff for real for her.

I spent the time waiting for my first reading up on things and gather materials for faceups and things like that. Just made plans in general.

 

Yes yes yes. I was a paranoid, nervous wreck with my first doll, and all he took was a month. I freaked out every day thinking I'd dropped $800 on something I would never see. BUT I was not in any way a member of the "community". I'd never seen them on DA, I had no idea DOA existed and I didn't know one single person with a BJD, online or IRL, so I had no clue that a month was not only a normal amount of time, but pretty fast, and that Dollmore was reliable. Had I known these things, I might not have been so freaked.

I was still a little impatient during waits until the Dollshe wait of 2010-12...after a 14 month wait anything less is nothing. I can go 6 months now easily (good thing too...Dollzone.). 4 months is nothing! lol

But yeah, first was the hardest. By far.

 

Yes. Oh so very definitely yes.
My "grail doll" who was to be my first was released as a Limited Edition while I was in the middle of moving house, so I couldn't get her during her LE order period. Being an Iple she went basic, but that was a two-month wait already ... then after that, it took her two more months to actually come home. It was the worst wait of my life. My second got caught in the xmas backlog and took a lot longer than she should have, but I wasn't as fussed ... and have never been since. I do get impatient every now and then (looking at you, Dollshe! Ship my head soon, pretty please?), but it's nowhere near as hard as that first wait was.

 

Oh yes, much harder. I had no idea what to expect, and I was desperate to have him. For my second bjd, I was able to get her things together and buy her jewelry and make her clothes, since I knew how big she was going to be, approximately. And with my 3rd, he was secondhand, so he came earlier than I expected and I didn't have any clothes ready for him. He's a lot buffer than his little brother, so they can't share clothes. XD

 

I have to agree with this post. I was able to put it out of my mind because it was my final year of uni and i had a lot of things to do. I'm not so distracted now so it's not as easy to forget...

 

No.... my first doll came from eBay, so he arrived within a week or so. When I first started collecting, I was chasing down Volks Tokyo Boys who were sold out, so all the early ones were eBay. My first (SDC Arashi) was not a Tokyo Boy, but he had just been released in Japan so he was easy to pick up on eBay for a good price + no wait.

Only when I had caught up on collecting the old dolls, and started buying new dolls directly from their companies, THEN I had to get used to long waits. And since I was collecting Volks & Iplehouse LEs, that meant treating 3-month waits as normal! But I've got a busy enough life, with QUITE enough stuff to do & take care of, that I never climb the walls while waiting for a doll. (I mainly only climb the walls waiting for each weekend, since it's the only time I get doll-play-time. Being a grownup sucks.)

 

I'm in the "no" camp, too. My first came from JunkySpot, so he shipped immediately and I had him in just a few days. And I still wasn't sure what I was doing in this hobby (I intended just to have one doll and make clothes), or active on any forums other than JS's. It was probably the second and third (ordered together) that I was most impatient on! They were my first ordered direct from a company, and I wasn't used to the wait times yet. Now I only get antsy if I see similar order-times or limited items shipping, or when the end of the estimated wait time starts getting closer, the rest of the time I'm actually fairly comfortable with waiting.

 

No. It was tough, but I didn't really know how awesome she would be. It was only after I had my first doll that the wait times started killing me. And it gets worse and worse with each one!

 

I had my first bjd in under a week because he was an in-stock standard, and Volks ships very fast.

The "waiting for dollies" thing has only been the last few; I can't believe the wait time from Fairyland.

 

Oh my goodness yes! I thought about it so much that I actually had nightmares about her arriving broken (or even melted--is that even possible?). I was so excited and nervous. I'm currently waiting for my second doll, and while I'm excited, I'm not nightmare inducing excited/nervous ><;;

 

Actually I found it easier because while waiting for my first BJD, I'd never seen one in-person, up-close before and didn't know what to expect, or how awesome BJDs would be. I think the more aware I become of my own preferences in dolls, the more difficult the waiting game becomes as I get so excited in anticipation for that doll's arrival knowing she'll have a permanent residence in my family.

 

It was easier for me. I bought Amir from JunkySpot and only had about a week to wait for him. It was 11 days before my wedding, and my cousin died that same day I ordered him, so between her funeral and my wedding preparation, I didn't really have time to worry about a doll.

 

When you waited for your first doll was it the harder than waiting for any other doll?
Yes. It was very scary.
BJDs were rare then--I'd never seen or held one before, I didn't know anyone with one, I thought the price was crazy-crazy-crazy, but I had to have one. You had to do a bank transfer because PayPal wasn't quite set up to be used for foreign companies--nor were credit cards taken at that time (2004). I was going through an English-speaking agent for the company... and I didn't know how reliable or how the customer service would be. I didn't know if I'd actually like resin or a doll that size or all kinds of things. There were fewer doll items for sale, so I didn't know how to get the eyes or wigs or clothes or shoes I liked...

The whole process was new to me, so I had no idea what to expect about anything!

Plus--the company sent the wrong doll. They weren't sure they HAD another of the right one (it was limited). I'm surprised I didn't get an ulcer or a mental breakdown!

I'm not a doll-cuddler, so that wasn't the issue. It was just not knowing ANYTHING. DoA (the forum... I wasn't on the Yahoo Group) had just started and I had only just joined, so while I got some info there, it was still hard to know what to expect.

I still get a bit of a sick feeling just thinking about it.

But... so many dolls and years later, you can tell that it was not horrible enough for me to stop buying dolls. In fact, I bought another dolls a month later (even though I swore I would have only ONE doll), and the experience was much smoother... not because of having a doll at home, but just having been through getting a doll and knowing what to expect. No problems with THAT doll. After the trauma of the first doll coming home, I don't get frazzled by almost anything about dolls!

 

I was very afraid of buyers remorse. Terrified that I wouldn't love him as much as I thought I would. Luckily, my friend knew and told me about waiting times and such. She also worked at Think Pink, so that was reassuring. My first doll came pretty fast. The second time I was anxious again, because I bought her through a different agent and when the package arrived it was the wrong doll. My longest wait was 6 months or so, for a doll I ordered around the time my grandma passed away, so she had already become important to me. The wait was agonizing... My first time ordering straight from a company was an experience as well.

 

That's so interesting april - you were very brave! I was so nervous about buying from 'abroad' LOL - I almost didn't bother. I nearly had heart failure after clicking the 'pay now' button *what have I done and with HOW MUCH MONEY??* - most expensive thing I've ever bought I think, apart from my cooker - and it was only an Angel of Dream! I'm not good at waiting for anything, so I was climbing the walls till she came, and it only took a month. Really I should have got my first few dolls from dealer's stock, or 2nd hand for instant gratification. I bought lots of shoes to pass the time, so it got very expensive!

I bought a couple more from 'abroad' after that but the rest were ebay or in stock dolls so no waiting really. Until now - I'm waiting forever and not even stressed - I've got plenty of other dolls to keep me occupied so yes it is definitely harder when you don't have a doll to distract you from the agony of waiting.

 

Ah ah... OMG,it was the same for me , and I've waited only 2 month but it was horrible for my first one ! I remember I was just buying stuff for passing time ...