Why did you sell your doll?

If I sell a doll its usually because I do not pay attention to it, or I've grown out of love for it, or it doesn't suit a character.

 

I didn't give him enough attention and wanted to limit myself to only buying dolls on my must find and buy list.

 

I have yet to sell a doll, but I almost did once.

It was more or less for a selfish reason, as well. I wanted a boy doll, I had a girl, and I didn't have the money to own both. I considered selling my DZ Shoyo and get a boy in replacement, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

In the end I gave up on the idea to sell her and ended up getting a boy, anyway! I'm really happy I decided not to sell her, I think it would have been a huge mistake.

I think I grow too attached to my dolls to sell them, honestly. =D

 

Naomi - AR LF Ren. She was my first doll. a less pricey one, MSD so i got an idea of the size. I learned on her (restringing, sueding, wigs, eyes all whatnot) and sold her when i was done.
SD Lune - hated his face mold.
Ayumu - tiny's weren't for me. He's super cute but yeah..no..
Floating heads - needed money, had no plans to get them bodies.
I think that's all XD

 

for the ones I sold it was an issue of "oh man, this doll doesnt look the same as in the pictures". This has happened twice. The other time it was because the dolls body was so big all he could do was sit ;_; I couldnt pose him at all. Made me very sad because i loved him to death.

 

I came so close to selling my first boy off, to the point of the buyer being ready to send me the money. Then I stripped him to be packed and burst into tears and hugged him: I just couldn't send him away and contacted the buyer immediately.
Best decision I ever made not to sell him, he gives the best hugs.

I think when I sell one of my dolls, because I will eventually, it will be a character decision. There is a character I really want to bring home in a Narin Charisma shell and the dolls I have now did not have proper characters when I bought them and still don't. Plus I don't really pay much attention to them and I'm sure there is someone out there who can care for them better than I can

 

For my first dolls, it was because I hadn't done enough research and bought from a company that wasn't particularly my favorite. I loved them in pictures, but hated posing them.

For dolls since, I have a really hard time settling on a mold... I will love one thing about it (usually it's face) and hate something else (usually an aspect of its poseability).

Once or twice I've sold dolls because I felt guilty having so much money sitting around in the form of resin, but that was mostly early on, when I still believed it was insane to own more than one!

Now a days, though, I'm trying to limit my collection to only those I really want and will do stuff with, so if I sell one, it's because there is another one I really, really, really want more.

 

I just recently sold my first doll, a DoI Luke. It wasn't that I didn't love him, because I did, he was my first doll and I had a lot of memories with him. But I wanted to downsize (he was a 70cm, I wanted 60cm for his character Blisdon), and the DoI body bothered me terribly. There's nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't to my taste at all. It got to the point where the personal issues I had with his body made it so I never did anything with him, and that wasn't fair. I decided to get him a different body, sell him to someone who would really love him, and it all turned out great. Blisdon is back with a vengeance, and the DoI Luke is going to a better home.

 

I've sold an Iplehouse Soo Ri in the past and have a CP Tanning Lishe I'm about to sell as well. Both for the same reason: I've found a sculpt that I loved more and looked more like the character I had in my mind.

 

I've sold dolls for different reasons. I've had two big girls who I thought I would love but when they came really wasn't thrilled. I also go through phases when I might like the smaller ones and the larger ones get neglected so they go, but of course a new sculpt comes out and the big ones are back in again. And I admit I like change and it doesn't bother me to let them go (although there are those that will never go).

 

Augh. I seem to be selling more dolls than I currently own. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing at all.

The first doll I ever sold was a Volks Yo-SD Tanpopo, and I had to let her go because her character kinda outgrew her shell. Not so keen with keeping something that expensive lonely in a box when there's somebody out there who would definitely love her more.

I'm in the middle of selling an Iplehouse Muscular body. It's going because the character I have in mind is supposed to be much taller than my 60 cm dolls, but *groan*, he had such a nice chest...

And yet I'm also in the middle of selling a Dollfie Dream body, and later on I'm hoping to sell the head too. I thought I would like DDs, and yes they're awesome to pose...but they're not very huggable.

That's not all...I'm thinking about replacing my Lishe for a Soony mold for my Lady Atsuko character. For some reason her appearance slowly evolved through my drawings.

And.....I want to get a new body for Tanya because I don't like the legs to her body.....Ahhhh. Total chaos.

 

Ahhhhh...so well put, Merangel! For me, that's it exactly.

 

I sold my Obitsu because I thought she was haunted lol!

 

i sold my first doll. she wasnt like i expected at all and althought she ended up createing her own character, that character started to evolve and didnt fit her anymore. looking at her made me sad, and i felt guilty that i didnt love the doll any more and that the character had to settle for it. i finaly sold it in order to replace it for the same character. i hear tho that this happens fairly often. (characters needing to "upgrade" their bodies/faces)
thankfully this is the only time this has happend (unles you count upgrading my neo-go guy to a bjd lol)

 

im regretting my impulse buy but every time i think about selling my Odette i feel bad ;____;
(maybe off tpic?)
i would probably trade for one that isn't so expensive ;____;

 

I don't sell very often - only sometimes when it seems like I'm just ignoring it in favor of the others. If I never buy it any clothes of its own to go with its character, or if I never photograph it - that is a sign I need to let it go.

 

I don't like to sell dolls and held off on doing so for a long time. I also prefer to trade rather than sell where I can, because then we each get what we want and less hassling over Paypal fees, etc.

Usually when I sell or trade it's because my order came with extra stuff besides what I wanted, and I have no use for the extras. I've sold or traded extra heads or gift heads that came with the doll I wanted, a body I didn't want but had to buy in order to get the head I did want, and in one case a second doll that was a duplicate of one I already had bought, when I thought the first one had been lost in the mail or not shipped by the seller - then of course the first one showed up after I bought the second one so I had two of them and only wanted one of that particular doll.

I've also put dolls or doll parts up for sale or trade when I wanted the same head or doll but in a different color or gender. For instance, I swapped a male Wishel torso for a female, and I tried to swap my NS Lu-wen vamp head for a WS one, but ended up just having to sell the NS head and buy the WS one with the money. Sometimes I can't find a swap partner so I just keep the head or doll.

If I really, really needed money I might try to sell some dolls but fortunately it has not yet come to that and I hope it won't.

 

I'm selling quite a few of my dolls right now. There are a couple of reasons: I don't have enough room for all of them. I have health problems, and it's too hard to take care of that many dolls. Some of them weren't what I was expecting. I noticed that I consistently make clothes & photograph certain dolls, while I never do much with the others. And I'm trying to save money for something else. So for me it's a combination of all these reasons.

 

It took me a year of dolls to find the right ones. I just happened upon the Blue Fairy site, didn't know they were called ABJD's, and found one on e-bay. It was a while before I found DoA. I told my self I would never buy a Volks. They were really expensive, and not worth the price. Well, I traded a doll for my first yo. She sold me. And then, Fairyland had to come along and make those Pukis, which resistance is futile. And now Little Fees. I will have one! So, after selling many dolls, I've got 3 companies I own dolls from, and Love those dolls. But mostly, I need the tiny ones!

 

Well I sold my MSDs a while back. They were actually my first dolls, and I was amazed about how it was so easy to sell them. o.O; I always hear these painful stories of people selling their first dolls and I'll admit that I was really picky about who got it but it all worked out in the end. I decided the MSD size just wasn't my thing, or rather the 'child-like' in-between look wasn't my thing. So I upgraded them to SD size and I couldn't be more happy with them~ 8D I might go back to MSD size one day, but right now I'm happy with my dollies and I don't regret selling the others to get them.