WORST Doll Experience EVER

So far the worst that's happened is me being severely bitten by my doll.

I was removing his head to be mailed for his faceup, and I turned the S hook with my finger, because I didn't know any better but I knew he was loosely strung. Somehow the elastic became taut and my finger tip got caught between the end of the hook and the resin part that secures it and keeps the head in place. It was a terrible experience because no matter what was done, it hurt. Iris needed to be shoved down in his shoulders to keep from closing on my finger tighter, but I couldn't because I only had one hand and my other was twisted at an awkward angle from turning the hook. My boyfriend had to hold Iris down while my roommate ran for a screwdriver. I was stuck for a whole minute and nearly blacked out from the pain.

I was so scared of having to call an ambulance because I knew they wouldn't care about Iris, they'd just break him to get him off of me. As it was, I was already begging my boyfriend "don't hurt Iris". XD In the end, my hand and arm were twisted in such a way that I had to be the one to free myself, nobody else could get into that small space. My finger was purple and I lost feeling in half of my finger tip that hasn't fully returned. Unfortunately it was the side that touches my pencils and markers, so Iris really screwed up my business for a while (I draw doll portraits), this happened in early July.

 

Oh My God! I'm so glad you're okay now! I would never be able to handle that I would have a cow if there was a risk that I would have to break Lattie!

 

Thus far the worst thing that has happened to me was when I was dressing my RS Xue (who has since moved on) and was putting on some shoes. At the time she was wearing stockings and all of a sudden I felt a lump by her ankle... After removing her shoes and stockings, I saw that her ankle had chipped pretty badly. I felt sooo bad and ended up selling her because her foot kept doing all these crazy things because of it.
It's not as a bad as some of the other stories on here but it still upset me at the time.

 

Ebony Rain mentioned this, and Im surprised its still remembered. I was the one it happened to, back in 2007, I had ordered a luts kid delf cherry boy. I did the usual dolly wait, and then the shipping wait. The day he was supposed to be delivered I figured he had missed the truck, and would be delivered the following day. Following day came, no doll, I checked the tracking and was horrified to see someone elses name and that it had been delivered. I called the post office right away, and they told me that the mail man was returning because he realized he had made a mistake. Got in touch with thhe mailman and he told me that he had given my package to a little old oriental lady in the lobby because she had looked to be korean and looked as if she had been waiting for a package. He didnt bother checking the name or ID. He also told me he had a feeling he knew who he had given my package to and we went up stairs to the senial old oriental lady who lived above me. She didnt speak or understand any form of english, not even writing, and so we spoke to her translator on the phone, and that lady informed me that the old lady had gotten my package, opened it, became appaled at the sight of my doll, said it was rubbish and threw it into the buildings trash compactor. I was completly shocked and devistated! The mailman was very remorseful and took full blame for the mishap, and the post office re-embursed me the cost of my doll. I had later found out that the man had been black listed and removed from working at the post office. I did buy a different doll from luts, a kid delf bory.. I just couldnt bring my self to get another cherry boy after that.

I later found out that the old lady had actually been frightened by the doll, and that was why she threw it away. It still doesnt make any sense to me..

That is still the worse thing that has ever happened to me in this hobby.

 

I've been having a string of awful dolly experiences that are culminating to being the worst ever, all thanks to USPS. I've had two dolls shipped to me recently, one full doll from Think Pink (who are toally awesome and put up with my constant panic). She was sent through TNT but I had put the wrong zip code down unintentionally. I called the hotline figuring I'd get a way to edit the package so it would go to the correct location, which was only a town over. Instead I was told that they would be returning her to sender I rushed off to the post office by where I work and they were able to wrangle her for me the following day. Fortunately I got her in time for my event but it was incredibly stressful. I had never had issues with the post office before so I just figured it was a one time fluke.

Except they've totally messed it up again, less than a month later. I ordered a head from another foreign country from a lovely member from the MP (who is also wonderful and has been super helpful in figuring this out). It went through customs slowly, but no surprises there until it went to the midwest. I live in the northeast. So instead of taking a few days to saunter up from new york city, it's instead gone 24+ hours away and hasn't updated in almost two weeks. I knew it would be slow but I'm so afraid that it's been lost as it's been over two weeks since I've had an update. It's been doing nothing but stressing me on top of a busy time in general at work too. I really hope I get a happy ending with this head like I did with my first girl and I hope it's soon.

 

I have horrible postal service at my house. They never, ever bring a package to my door. I have caught them sneaking up on the porch and leaving a "we missed you" note. I guess they are afraid to ring my doorbell? I have no idea; I just know that I have to go down to the post office and pick all my packages up. And then the guy at the PO will bless me out because my fiance didn't put enough tape on a package. My fiance sells through Amazon. They are just jerks. And my stepfather is a mail carrier so I know what they are supposed to do. Bleh. I can't imagine having a carrier deliver a package to someone who "looked like they were waiting". That really really bites that your doll got...Oh, I can't even type it. Just awful!

 

Oh my gosh, yea I never forgot that story!
Every time I order a doll or send one off it's in the back of my mind!

 

Yeah, its like re-run for me whenever I am waiting for anything now. Because of that they banned loitering in the lobby downstairs.

 

The worst thing that has happened to me is the realization that while I may be accepting of everyone else's strange hobbies, likes or behaviors there not at all accepting of mine. Like today my mother called the doll I've been saving up for creepy, it shouldn't have been a big deal but it was because I was already nervous about my choice as it would be my first SD. I guess I wonder why I'm surprised by the things people say about this hobby anymore, but it still hurts.

 

my bad experience was just getting a event head and finding the masking tape (that crap yellow staining one) stuck to the top of the head and when trying to carefully pry it off it stains ;0; im glad my dad knew how to get the stain out. Grr i emailed her about it and she gave me a discount for next time hahaha guess my story isnt all bad.... but im only new at the hobby anyway

 

I've been really lucky, nothing major has happened to me. I always get my packages, and my postman is super nice (he remembers us and calls us by our first names). Although, knowing my luck, something is going to happen tomorrow.

The only really bad thing that's happened to me was when I opened up my doll boxes after close to a year of renovations to find every single doll's face-up chipped I'm looking at close to $800 in face-up's right now.

I was also the cause of a face-up artist blacklisting a certain type of head off her commission list. I feel completely and utterly horrible about it. I don't think I was difficult to deal with... I was even more polite than normal because I respect her work so much, I just think they were hard to paint for her and she came to a decision and I was just the catalyst. If it wasn't me, it might've been someone else. It's now 2 years later and when I look at the head she painted, I just feel sad and guilty. Can't even work up the courage to try and get another commission from her when she's open, and I don't think I ever will, even though I desperately want to.

Oh yeah, and a few years ago I was looking for something to be commissioned and this guy messages me, I send him half the money, and then he runs off with my and several other people's money once a paging thread is opened about him. I don't even remember if we got our money back or not... so long ago.

 

I've never had a bad experience in the mail, but I've had plenty of experiences where I haven't liked a doll the moment I open it up. In some cases I think it was because I didn't do enough research before ordering though.

Anistasiya - I think I know who you are talking about, I don't remember names but I gave the guy fabric for the commission and he sent me the outfit (with the top not fitting), pocketed the rest of the fabric and sent it slow mail when I asked for and paid extra for priority. I was annoyed but didn't leave feedback as it was my first bad experience (and only) on DOA. I've not liked used dolls before, but I'm not going to blame the person.

I later sold the doll though because of the negative experience.

 

I have had a couple of not so great experiences. My first one happened with my very first doll. I got her from a member of DOA and thank goodness was well packaged. I lived in an apartment building and the mail person usually buzzed up when there was a package for me but the day I got my little dollmore momo it was raining and the mail man decided to leave the package under the buzzer box outside by the garbage bins. Luckily I was expecting her and when I heard the mail truck I ran down to find the box leaning up against the building soaking wet with a lot of damage done to the outer box. So much so that it even damaged the inner dollmore box. Luckily though my little momo didn't have a scratch on her.

My second one was of my own fault and was assisted my my cat. On two occasions he has damaged a doll. One was my tiny that he thought was a play toy and chipped off a fair chunk of her wrist and the other time I was trying to get him to clean him up and he jumped up on the buffet table and knocked my Tai into the wall breaking off his beautifully modded and painted elf ear T.T I managed to find most of the ear and glue it back on but the very tip is still chipped off.

 

I haven't been in the hobby as long as most of you, but my girl has already given me a mini heart attack. My roommies and I were taking a break at a con and decided to sit down in the dealers room, I stood my girl up on the floor to take a few pictures after managed to get her nice and stable in these massively tall lolita heels. The moment I looked away for one split little second she just decides to fall over! Just - plop - crash - me:
Thankfully it was just a little tumble, nothing compared to some of the stories I've read here, but still startled me.

 

Five months waiting for my dream (and first) doll to arrive. And I'm pretty sure I made a pest of myself to DDE, but it wasn't their fault.. they didn't have any more information than I did. :<

 

The worst experience I had was when I was talking to two friends of mine over the internet. It was on a board where we occasionally RPed and I had gone AFK for a while because Nuvat's strings were loose, so I was restringing him. I came back two hours later with a well strung Nuvat. My friend asked me where I had been and I told her I had to restring my boy. She didn't seem to mind that I was into BJD's, until my second friend came into the chatroom and starting talking about how creepy and ugly they were and why anyone would spend money on them. Then my first friend started doing the same thing, typing in Lol's and telling me how ugly BJD's were. I was really hurt and just sat there in silence, shocked that anyone would do that. Disgusted by their behavior towards me, especially by two people who I had been friends with for a long time, I immediately quite RPing there, because just being there gave me a horrible taste after that, and took them off of my friend list. I haven't talked to them since. I don't care if it was in a joking manner, it still hurt me because I had spent my own hard earned money on my boy, took months to plan him and figure out how he should look. At least my hobby showed the true colors of some of my friends, and I want nothing to do with them.

 

Wow, that must have hurt! i've gotten a few sniggers from non-doll people, but nothing like this from people close to me. Good riddance, I'd say. Those are not friends!

My dolls have gone through their share of minor accidents, but nothing was worse than the day my Midori arrived. Straight out of the box, midway through her box opening, one of her eyelashes came undone on one end. Unfazed, I fetched my glue so I could put it straight back on. Somehow, even though I was super careful, I managed to spill a teensie tiny amount of glue on her cheek. I freaked and tried to gently remove the dry bits with my fingernail (I know, I'm so stupid!). The glue came off, but I scratched the MSC on her gorgeous company face-up. And the worst was, that glue turned out to be water-soluable, so I could have just wiped it off with some wet cloth or something. Thank God you can now only tell when you're looking for it specifically.

 

My worst experience was when i was (photo)shooting outdoors in summer evening. Dolls didn't want to stand, or even sit! There were millions of mosquitoes and I was sick for a long time. >_< (I reach to mosquito bites quite harshly...) And the worst thing; 90% of the photos were crappy or something.

I think it's best for me to stay indoors :,D

 

I have had two bad experiences, one I caused with my own stupidity and one is a really common problem we have a lot.

First I bought a beautiful WitHdoll Priscilla in grey skin off the MP. She was gorgeous and I was so happy with her.........except for that ski slope of a nose! It was just so pointy and well, pointy. Anyway, I had a brainstorm that I could use heat to kind of mush her nose flatter. It was a brainstorm all right. I held her head over a kettle and heated her up. First time, only a few seconds, and then I did mush her nose and it went flatter on the end. Yay! That worked pretty good, lets try it some more. BIG MISTAKE! It turned the sealer on her face white, so she had this mushed nose and a white mask. What had I done? I only received her that day and I had already ruined her gorgeous factory faceup. I kicked myself around the block several times. Then I cried and kickedmyself some more. I did send her out to an excellent faceup artist in the end and she got a fantastic new faceup, and a proper nosejob.

Second I'm in right now. A wait that has been incredibly long, much longer than they had first said and no info from the US based company. No answers to questions. From 60 to 90 days to 90 to 120 and we're on 160 days now and counting. I do realize that stuff happens, but its free to inform people and makes such a difference. I would think that a english speaking company would understand that and at least try to keep people from having this amount of stress. I will never purchase from this company again. It is just too stressful and is really putting a bad feeling towards the whole hobby. Not sure what to think or do at this point. Everyone loves the dolls and says they are worth it. That may well be, but there are girgeous dolls out there everywhere. I could have used that money for another doll and had it already, or bought one off the marketplace.

 

So far, I haven't had too much trouble. (just bought my first doll) Just putting the wig on, changing her face plates, etc...that is kinda hard because I'm always so tempted to grab her chin (which can chip her face up) and she already has a few smudges from me doing that. (And I'm OCD like crazy so it bugs me a bit, but I try to convince myself I'm imagining the smudges cuz...maybe I am?) Anyways, I only heard a heart breaking story of a gal that kinda went off the deep-end from anti-depressants and an abusive relationship and sold all her dolls, thinking she was gonna just end it all. Well...turns out she got back to normal and she regretted selling her "family". Now she pines and whines over them every day, wishin' she could get them back. I honestly think that's so sad. I hope nothing ever gets me to sell my girl. I love her too much!