WORST Doll Experience EVER

My worse experience is you realize you arent attached to a doll anymore. Whats worse is this said doll was my first doll before Nimmy and my Alberta. I don't think my love will return D8 But she is beautiful but she deserves a better home then what I am giving her. She is locked away in a box under my bed. I think thats the worse for any owner.

 

Mine would be today ... I got up to find that my cats had pulled two of my smaller dolls out of the shelf again - they are overly infatuated with the mohair and fur wigs but strangely won't touch any doll over msd size - and the sweet msd girl I only received at the beginning of this week lost a finger from falling off the shelf.
Worst about it, the company doesn't sell exchange hands or feet on their website like most other companies do. I managed to gue it back on pretty well and she'll most likely get some jewelry to hide it but ... well. ._.
I moved all my msd and yosd dears into the living room and now they are behind glass, safely away from the cats.
Guess I'll buy a big glass cabinet to fit my sd size dolls too some time before christmas ... just to be safe. Just because MY cats don't touch them doesn't mean my roommates cat's won't, either. I love all four of them but I don't trust them with dolls any more.

 

I think my worst BJD experience also ended up being my best one.

To make a long story short, I ended up inadvertently purchasing a doll that had been stolen from one of our DoA members! I figured it out within about six hours of receiving said doll and, once my heart started beating again, messaged the owner right away. We traded information and I am happy to say the doll is now back at home with her rightful owner! I made a wonderful friend in the process, and she very generously sent me a doll to replace the one I'd initially bought. I treasure this new doll very much because of what she represents to me, and I'm so happy I could help reunite a missing doll with her human.

Even though the experience was initially terrifying, I would do it over again in a heartbeat. So there you have it: best and worse all at once!

 

Well, when the very thin part of my Iple SID's elbow socket broke off. I already feared and expected that, as the male elbow sockets are sculpted thinner than these of my girl. I do not know whether it is only the case on mine, but I reinforced it on all 4 spots and he has to live with it now. I see like a scar, gives him more character somewhat. In this case, I see no reason in trying to get new parts, as they most likely will break at the very same places.

 

I think it must have been the time I sent a Minifee Nanuri head off to it's new home in the US only for it to go MIA. The buyer contacted USPS and I contacted PostNL on my end, but however much we asked, the package wasn't found. According to tracking she was last seen in Chicago Although I had no real bond with the head I still cringe at the whole experience and I still can't believe a limited head could just vanish off the face of the earth like that. Plus, it took a very long time before I had my money back and she hers, the whole saga stretched over about 3 months...

 

This will be nothing compared to other experiences but:
I once lent one of my girls to a friend for a photoshoot and when she returned my doll, her eyes had been moved around.

This isn't a big deal, I mean, she wasn't damaged, but its crazy how much eye placement changes things and I would have liked being asked permission.

 

My MengLi was ordered from Mintoncard and I had taken in to account that coming to the UK from USA she would incur customs charges. What I didn't know is that MOC would declare everything in full, including a stand (which arrived broken because it had no screws) and her fullset outfit. The total charges were over £100 for a doll I had begun to have second thoughts on anyway. When I opened her she then had a broken leg joint. MOC arranged a replacement, which took 4 months to arrive and charged me shipping again. I have never truly bonded with her because of this and she is currently up for sale.

My Soom Phonolus can't wear his (blushed) fantasy legs because one of the paws has no lip for the s hook to catch on to. Soom offered to repair it, if I shipped it back but it was such a hassle Ive never bothered I love him anyway, so will one day sort out the beast feet.

 

WOAH, how did you figure that one out, Sandwich??

 

My worst doll experience came to me with my firts doll, with it's body. I've ordered it with the help of mediator shop because it was my first doll and i was afraid to make mistakes while placing order. When it came i found huge colour difference with head. I waited for white body but in fact it was pink. So i have to tone all the head before make up and now, after fade, body has clear violet hue. I didn't sell the body at once because i was not sure if it was wrong skin tone or my firm choise was wrong (i've read all hybrid forum and it seemed good combination). Now, after comparing with other dolls i incline to believe it's not my mistake.

 

The doll arrived in poor condition, which I figured she would because her auction photos didn't look all that great (she was an e-bay buy). She was worse than I had anticipated though, and I thought her prior owner had to have been stupidly careless with such a luxury item. I got curious and tried to look the doll up in the database here to see what information I could glean about her owner. At this point, I didn't suspect anything - I was just being nosey!

Well, I found the doll easily enough because she has a unique face-up, and was surprised to see she looked a lot better in her database photo. When I clicked on the owner's profile I saw she had her listed as stolen, and it took about five minutes with the help of a friend to find MULTIPLE records on the internet about the theft.

It turns out this was something that had made waves in the BJD community when it happened years ago, but I been taking a hiatus from the hobby at the time and had no idea about it. D'oh! Anyway, everything worked out in the end, but whew!

 

great thread post! I am enjoying reading the responses =)

 

My very first bjd... I was already so nervous. I'd never seen one in person before (this was way back in the dark ages of bjds... they just weren't that common and DoA-as-a-forum was brand new and I had just joined). I was still thinking I was insane for spending so much on a doll. So I was building up a big horrible worry-pit in the middle of my stomach for MONTHS.

Then the doll arrived and they had sent the wrong one!

It was normal skin, not white. I'd positively agonized over what color to pick, but when he arrived I was pretty sure I was right in choosing white. And the resin felt strange--more plastic-y than I thought. I was feeling positively sick! I contacted the agent for the company (this was back when websites in English were rare), and she had to talk to the company in Korean. She said that since the doll was limited it was possible that they did not have a white one to send to me. She said I should send the normal skin one off to another person in the US who had also gotten the wrong doll. This made my stomach fall more! So the company had made more than ONE mistake??? That happens when a buyer is sending off hundreds and hundreds of dollars and shipping around by EMS wasn't so cheap, either??? ... and after worrying over all my decisions... I might end up with no doll at all??? I had wanted the one perfect doll for me, since I was telling myself that I would only spend so much money if I only bought ONE doll... So I was feeling very sick-at-heart.

I sent off the first doll, even though I wanted to keep him in case I never got another! But I felt for the person who had also got a wrong doll. (Strangely, the person I sent the doll to was someone I knew! I didn't know she was into dolls, but we did like the same things, so it was not entirely weird that we decided to get the same model of doll... Still, it was VERY bizarre. I didn't know she was into dolls and she lived in another city... we knew each other through different hobbies.)

So I was without a doll for a while, with no information. Then, weeks later, I heard that the company had a white skin doll in that sculpt. Someone in Korea had not picked him up--and he was the last one--numbered 68 of 68 total made! That also gave me a bit of a heart-attack, but I was so grateful --to the person who flaked out and just at getting the doll at all. The past weeks had been terrible, very distracting after having worried just about buying and then waiting...! I was thinking that it was such a bad idea to be involved in something so difficult AND expensive...

So I was glad when I got another doll box by EMS... But then... I had asked for a faceup on the extra head, and it was blank. And the faceup on the normal head was a bit slapped on (the company let the faceup artist go after many complaints and their next release was only offered blank! --there were faceupped versions offered by an agent selling them online, but those dolls sold out in seconds and you couldn't request white skin tones). So... I contacted the agent and she said they'd send me a refund on the money for the second faceup.

I was totally exhausted by this time... I had no clothes for my boy. The wig that came with him was too small! (threads broke when I tried to put it on... it finally did go on, but because of the broken threads, it was slippery and didn't stay on). Faceup was weak. I was getting used to how resin felt, but I was still not sure dolls were for me after all that.

There was a convention and the friend I had sent the doll to was coming into town for it. I met in her hotel room... there were also two others whom I knew from before, who I didn't know were into bjds, and we met in the hotel room where they lent me clothes and wigs for my naked boy. The white skin looked rather yellowy... My friend with the ns dolls said it wasn't yellowy, it was creamy. They were all so nice and they had their dolls there and we took some photos (I didn't even have a digital camera at that time!)... So it was my first sort of meetup and they were so nice and excited about my doll, dressing him up and posing him with their dolls. It was so nice. I felt a lot better.

I bought some eyes I liked better in him (had to try several!). Wigs (I had to try several!). Clothes (hard to find and lots of waiting in those days). I did some very small enhancements to his eyebrows... I bought my first digital camera (cameras in phones didn't exist then... I may not even have had a cel phone in those days!).

Anyway, that was 2004. I bonded and loved my first doll. I got another doll (the faceup-less one from the same company, so I tried my first faceup on her), just a month later! I went to my first big doll meetup. And I never looked back!

Nothing like that has happened since... but if it did, I got all the worry and pain out of my system by then!

 

It was when I practiced my face-up. I had been in my garage to sealed MSC on my dolls, I put three heads on the chair, put on MSC, then I left. About 20 second after I heard a very loud noise. I was extremely shocked because it was a sound of something smashed down. Yesssssssss my dolls! Some mice was hit that chair and all my doll were on the floor every mold got scratch.....

but anyway... I have learn how to mod and fix from this scary hobby experience

 

I think I've barely had my first BJD for a month but I feel like it's been a sort of roller coaster of pain, confusion, WTFery and letdowns. So it's almost, like, all together, just getting into this hobby has been a bad experience. If that makes sense? It's nothing horrible like other's stories here but like I said, I have been in this for less than a month. And if this is sort of a typical pain in the butt part of dealing with dollies, then by all means, tell me so I don't feel like a complete fool.

But it's like... between restringing issues, hot gluing issues, wig issues, moleskin sueding issues, clothing issues, feet/shoe issues, posing issues, it's been pretty friggen stressful, mentally exhausting and physically painful (I lost track of how many backaches I got, I think it was 1 for every restringing which was maybe 5 attempts in the first week I had her, not to mention the sore/tender/near bleeding hands).

Maybe it's because it's an RS Lian (my brain hates me and mixed up this brand with another brand known for it's poseability), or I'm doing something horribly wrong, expectations that come from not being one-on-one familiar with BJDs, or this is just how it is, or a little of everything... it's been very stressful and not fun.

If all goes according to plan, I'm getting a Ringdoll or Feeple60, and then at least I'll have experience with another doll and then I can properly judge.

All the whining aside... she is very lovely and elegant. She has no complaints as her character is supposed to be an android. She's cuddly (I did NOT expect a giant, hard doll to be cuddly!) and sits and photographs very nicely. Sometimes I feel almost regret for getting her but then I look at her and I swoon a little and pull her onto my lap. I'm glad I got her.

 

I think my most terrible experience was when I was removing the elastic from my Crobidoll Ys so I could restring him and the knot got stuck in his leg. No matter what I did I could not get the knot out! I tried pulling, and cutting, and yanking, and scraping away at what I could see of the elastic to wear it down, but absolutely nothing worked! I was completely in tears during the entire month or so for me to work the knot out by a combination of pulling and pushing and scraping away at the elastic. When I finally got it out I almost started crying again from sheer happiness. That was my first time ever unstringing a doll so I guess il you can imagine the mixed emotions I have about doing it again XD

 

Aww, hang in there, kittydorkdork. RS/BBB are known for being sort of 'project dolls', and it simply takes a bit more work and finagling to get them how you'd like them to be. I would really encourage you to look for fellow doll people in your area, maybe in the Meetups section. I know my whole view on the hobby changed when I started going to meets, and it's always awesome to see and handle others' dolls in person, and maybe... make a friend?

You should be proud for already having put so much effort into her. There are a lot of people who have had dolls for years and are terrified to restring them and do work on them, but you're getting a lot of firsthand experience.

 

I read through pages and pages of people's bad experiences, thinking how lucky I am for not having any, until it hit me. I have. A huge, disgusting experience that's small in comparison to many, but living it is slowly driving me insane.

I live in Finland and our postal service isn't exactly delightful, but it works. Unlike every single other package delivery company here. Europe in general is a huge mess of package delivery companies with sometimes exactly identical names, who still don't deliver each other's packages.
This has never been a problem before, as I'm almost always at home when they deliver in the morning. I never really thought about it or gave it much stress. If I got a slip for them trying to deliver, but me not being there, I'd contact them or they'd try again.

Not in this house. This apartment building is, for some inexplicable reason, locked 24/7. The main door in the first floor has no other means to get in except a key (the main postal service has one, but no other company does). This means everytime I order something, I have to contact the delivery company to tell them to *call me first* before trying to deliver. I often do this in advance too, because of my first experience with packages in this apartment.
During the last year, I'v had a package sit at a delivery company for two weeks because they didn't have the sense to call my phone number (that was written on the box too, I checked). I started wondering at the two week mark of shipment and went on a mad search to find who delivered the package. I had to call FOUR COMPANIES to find out who delivered! FOUR. The company mentioned in the website of where I ordered my package from, did not do the deliveries in Finland. And ofcourse asking THAT company resulted in "Oh lol IDK who delivers.". When I finally found out what company it was, the lady in the phone didn't even try to apologise, she wasn't interested.
After that *every single* package, there have been what, five?, has been a hassle to 1. find out who delivers it 2. contact them via email first 3. then call them because psh, who needs to read customer emails 4. Getting a phone slammed into my ear when I tried to call them 5. contact *again* and mention how I tried to call 6. get a call with no apologies and very rude service.

I'm currently starting to think ordering from outside EU is more nicer, because the main postal service handles customs' packages if you pay them for it and atleast they have some resemblance of customer service. And they bring the boxes at a set time, instead of "somewhere between 8-16. Maybe."

The best one this far has been when a package service I called asked when would be best for me to bring the box.
"It would be best if you could bring it to me later this week, early in the morning"
"I'm sorry its currently not possible"
"When IS it possible then? (don't ask me if you can't do it lady)"
"We can do an early morning delivery next week on tuesday"
"That's fine. Just. That's fine. (Yeah. Its tuesday now. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Sigh. /cue sad for having to wait a week)"
Then, on thursday someone calls me around FOUR with "Hey uh we got the package in the truck, can we bring it now?"
"....If you can bring it to my school >:/?"
"Aww man we already been there today! >:C Noooo.."
"Bring it on tuesday then?!"
"Okay."
I.. I just... WHY. WHAT. This whole experience is one of the big reasons I want to move, next to a high rent. Seriously. This is way too much stress just because Finland has a dozen package delivery companies who can't be arsed to write on their website which companies they deliver packages FROM. Its not hard! I'v since battling with one company THREE TIMES I'v written it as my signature on the finnish forum so nobody else has to call around like an idiot who delivers packages from holland. It feels horrible calling a company and asking if they deliver from somewhere and them going "Uh, no? What are you? stupid?"

 

After falling for fairyland minifee Chloe I went ahead and ordered her, the wait was horrible and it was first ever bjd. She finally got shipped and made it from the factory to England within one day, she then sat in customs for two whole weeks for no actual reason. I paid a handling charge and picked a day for her arrival, I had to go out for the day so my boyfriend took an unpaid day off work to wait in for her. I kept phoning him to check, but by 5.30 pm there was still no doll, he checked the tracking and saw - returned to depo due to insufficient address. I phoned them and then promised me that she was at the depo, we were on the way home so my dad offered to drive me down there and collect her in person.
I got to the office and gave the lady at the desk my details, off she went to find my doll- 15 mins later still nothing. She comes back, sighs and says -'sorry I cant find it, let me just check the computer again'. The fake smile then vanished from her face - 'oh, it seems it was delivered and sighed for'. she span the screen around and asked 'do you know this name? they signed for your parcel' - I had never heard of that name before. she shot off to go and phone the driver. It had been a bad few months the doll meant everything to me- I burst into tears and started to have a panic attack. My dad phoned my sister who came sprinting from the car park so she could hug me and try get me to calm down, I remember crying and saying 'some weirdo has my doll! what if they open it? what if the ruin her? I paid all my wages for her'. The woman came back and my sister started demanding answers, she didn't stop till she made the woman check the computer again. As it turns out the stupid idiot had looked up completely the wrong thing and my doll was waiting or me under the front desk.
One I got my paws on the box I wrapped my arms around it and held it tight all the way home. Its lucky for me that when I finally opened her box she was everything I had hoped that she would be. I am now waiting on two more dolls, I am crossing my fingers that it all goes well this time, I really couldn't take that stress again.

 

I have read some horror stories on this thread Thankfully my "worst" experience hasn't been so bad.

I had a saved search set up on ebay to notify me when a certain doll came up for sale. I had the search on for nearly a year until finally - an email!
It wasn't a full doll, just the head, but I was still thrilled as the company she was from no longer exists. The auction had a low starting bid and I ended up winning her at a very cheap price. I paid right away, the doll was coming from Australia so I suspected it might take some time, but she never showed. The seller actually contacted me, asking if she arrived, when I replied that she hadn't I received a refund almost instantly.

While I appreciated the seller's timely communication and refund, I suspect that the seller never sent her out due to her low ending price... I was super bummed. If she had just been honest about it, I wouldn't have had a problem paying more since it was something I had wanted for a long time. I didn't initially make her an offer since I saw there were already bidders on the head and I absolutely HATE it when I'm bidding on something and it suddenly it disappears because the seller and another buyer worked out a direct sale through messages/offsite.

Of course I'm just speculating, it is possible the doll was legitimately lost during transit, but the seller's eagerness to issue a refund seemed a bit odd.

 

Heh-heh, this one's easy. I nearly lost a finger the day I got my first girl doll. I ordered a DollLove Thea, and was adjusting her eyes (two sizes too big by the way) when her S-clip moved out of the very shallow trench and shot down her neck hole, dragging my index finger with it. I was still new to bjds and intensely afraid of removing heads or restringing, and I panicked. So did my mom, because it took our combined efforts, plus a screwdriver, to get my finger free again, much less securing the S-clip. I finally got it secure with extra eye putty and some superglue, but my fingertip had turned purple and was both very hot and very numb for several days! So I'd have to say that was my wprst experience.