Why would you give up your first doll?

Nor do I. Some dolls are gifts and thus are more special and less likely to ever be sold except in the case of an emergency but if I bought it myself and am not getting enjoyment out of a doll, I don't feel bad selling it. I've sold a lot of dolls for the short time I've been in the hobby.

 

If I must sell Fei (I hope it won't ever happened to me, pretty please... T^T)...
I think, there's a very berry strong reason behind it...
The reason must be between life and death... >___<

 

I think the only reasons to give up your first doll would be if you were beginning to dislike it or they needed the money.
I think it's kind of ridiculous that someone would rather have problems paying bills than sell their dolls.... :P

 

My first doll was an Abio Angel and he was slightly bigger in proportion to my other CP dolls even though they were all SD sized. Also, my first doll had a cute baby-like face and he couldn't match the rest in my family who had smirkish grown up faces

 

I recently sold my first doll (had her for less than a year) for couple of reasons. First, we just weren't bonding. I experienced what I consider bad customer service from the company I bought her from, was given reason to suspect she had been previously handled by people and then commissioned a faceup that I was unhappy with (after waiting 6+ weeks for her return). Second, I realized she didn't fit the character I wanted to create so I decided to look for another doll. The unfortunate thing is that now we have to replace our TV and need the money I've been saving up for my "it" doll to pay for it . . . . so now I wonder if it was the best idea to sell her. :

 

I Gotta say as someone who just sold her first doll and is getting a totally different doll. i couldnt be happier.
I Had gotten my first doll as a Christmas gift from my mother, he wasnt the mold i had wanted or anything like that. I had actually wanted a Breakaway SD Or a EL SD... Which know i wouldnt even think about getting either of those. I had gotten a Kid Delf Bory... he was a very sad boy, i took him out very rarely, and when i did i just didnt feel that "connection". I had been thinking about "revamping" My Little Bory "matt-e" I went n looked at photos of the mold, and as soon as the images loaded, i knew he wasnt for me anymore, and it wasnt right for me to hold onto him any longer. I sold him and turned around an bought a Beautiful littlefee ante elf.

I had been looking at photos of her for months, and when i found her for sell, i would fall asleep think about her, and wake up with her swimming back in my head.

So i dont regret selling him one bit, i left him in cali and moved back to texas, he had been sitting in a box for over a year. i never thought about him n never looked at photos of him.

 

Quite frankly because I didn't like him anymore. My first doll was a bobobie apollo and I could see more flaws with him than I could things that I liked, so I sold him. He didn't have a name nor had i made a single bit of clothing for him. And when I got Lopin, I knew i really didn't want my apollo anymore.

 

I originally sold Freya because I wanted the money to buy another doll, however I regretted selling her and I'm glad I have her back now.

 

I really loved my first doll (Elfdoll Soah) and still think the sculpt is wonderful, but I honestly believe that my tastes have changed, plus for various reasons I'm less than impressed with the company who made her. I sold my first because I didn't feel the face-up was what I was after and bought her back as a customised doll with an artist face-up. I'm now thinking of getting rid of the sculpt altogether because I don't do anything with her and would rather have the funds in another doll. I'm not sentimental about my first. Sooner or later most dolls seem to get sold because there are others that interested me more although that seems to be slowing down simply because I've now owned so many dolls from so many different companies that it's more of the same when I see a new release.

 

My first doll I sold. It was blue and had a twin that was pink. They just weren't for me. I know it does not right but I'm glad I sold them.

 

I couldn't sell her. I can't even imagine not having her. I bonded with her ver quickly and easily so I don't think I could bring myself to. I've only sold bonds I never bonded with, or found it hard to bond with.

 

I can't imagine selling my first doll, or any of the ones I have thus far. I love them too much.

 

My first doll was 100% picked out, as it was a FCS. So he had the perfect mold(f16) and faceup. My taste in faceups did change and he did go through several faceups, but he`s still the mold I love. My tastes in molds haven`t changed, and I still collect realistic heads so I don`t see myself selling my first. Sure, I might upgrade the body and such, but not the head. I`ve sold other dolls in the past which just didn`t have the mold I enjoy, so if I my tastes change, there`s a chance I might sell, but at this time my dolls are focused to match him, so when he goes, I have the feeling everyone in the house goes.

 

I sold my first doll recently, and I'd owned him for around 3 years. I realized that I need to periodically sell dolls because, otherwise, my collection would get too large for me to properly display/enjoy. Relative to my other, newer dolls, my first one wasn't getting much attention, so I decided to pass him on to someone who would hopefully appreciate him more. Also, he was white skinned, and I've found that in most cases I prefer a normal skin tone.

 

I dont think I will ever sell my first doll, partly because of the emotional attachment, and partly because its just not worth it. She is not a limited, and I dont think anyone would want an old yellowed version with scratches when they could just get a new one.

 

FrigidDamsel brings up a very good point: tastes in dolls can differ drastically between your first doll and your most recent ones. I'm still just beginning my doll family, so I haven't really experienced changes like that.

Although, I think my first doll set the tone for what I like. She wasn't what I was looking for, but I found a lot I liked in her as I grew to love that picture in the Marketplace more and more. She's fairly old and yellowed, but I find that beautiful, her eyes are kind of small and narrow, and the doll I originally wanted for my first had big round eyes. She's double jointed, which isn't really something I considered nor cared about before (and while I don't look for it, it seems like all the dolls I seek to own are double jointed. Well, most of them, anyway).

But over years, people do change what they like, consciously or not, and sometimes, that first doll just doesn't fit as well as it used to.

 

Because I didn't like the sculpt anymore, and wanted something else. Mainly because it's just a doll to me.

 

People's aesthetic tastes change, I know mine certainly did. I tried to sell my first doll twice - the first time, I took him right down shortly after putting him down 'cause I couldn't do it. Then I did a test, put him in his box for a while and when I realized that I didn't miss him I knew I was ready to sell.

The initial reasoning was financial, the second was that I wasn't giving him the attention he deserved. I actually sold my first two dolls for that very reason. When someone else can love them and give them the same attention I used to once upon a time, I see no reason to keep them around gathering dust.

 

If she wasn't totally adorable, I might have thought about giving up my first doll, my DM Kid Flocke, Emma.

Because her character wasn't pre-planned, I'm having a difficult time putting it together. Her brother's character - and even his not-even-began-to-save-for girlfriend have better character profiles by far.

 

I think if you don't play with a doll, or interact with it, or even enjoy seeing it just as a decoration, then it's time to part ways.

I can be sentimental about material things. I would feel worse about an expensive doll sitting around with no purpose and having no affection towards it whatsoever.

That being said, I don't know if I'll sell my first (just ordered her). She's only 27cm, so she won't be taking up a lot of room, and they're such an easy size to buy clothes for that I don't think I'd ever have to spend a ton of money on her if I didn't want to. But maybe if she didn't fit with the rest of my doll family (once I have one, that is!) I would part ways with her.

To be honest, though, I am not sure how the resale value for smaller dolls like my 27cm is...do 1/6 dolls have a good re-sale? I imagine some of the really popular tinies, like Littlefees and Pukis do...not sure about my incoming BBB Isabella, though. Is there a type of doll that gets adopted more readily than another, in y'all's experience?