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WORST Doll Experience EVER

Apr 30, 2012

    1. Just thinking about it sends chills up my spine!

      By the way, those are called wait for it... recasts! Recasts are bjds casted from a company without their permission. Recasts are a very sensitive topic in the hobby, to the point that they aren't allowed on doa.( I'm kinda scared by even mentioning them!!!) Some people are for it and some people are against it. Just about every company you can imagine are being stolen from. (except bobobie and resinsoul)
       
    2. Noooo, not Mica! I'm so sorry!
       
    3. Definitely not the most terrible thing in the world, but frustrating nonetheless. I ordered a blank doll around this time last year, and I got her just fine. I decided I wanted to do the faceup and make her clothes myself, and had the most irritatingly difficult time navigating my new sewing machine to make her an outfit. The machine kept eating the cloth I was using, and eventually the needle got stuck on a giant ball of thread and eaten cloth. I got so frustrated I just gave up, but I guess I will try again eventually. On the other hand, her faceup is going great, albeit very slowly. Yeah, I'm super slow. :XD:

      I'm sending out extreme HUGS and condolences to those who have been less fortunate than me. Having a doll lost, broken, or even (God forbid) being sent an illegal recast passed off as a legit doll seems like a totally horrible affair. I just don't know what I would even do in such a situation!
       
    4. Bringing a doll head to your parents' house to put it on the body you had shipped there, only to have it disappear without a trace in the aftermath of your mother deciding to reorganize all the doll things you had in your old room.

      Everything is now in different containers, the box the head was in is empty, none of the boxes she said it would be in have it, and this was a not quite grail doll!
       
    5. The worst was probably, when I saw on the tracking website, that my first doll was sent to Australia instead of Austria. Back then it was a big shock but luckily he was sent to the right country within a day. The long journey ended with a broken resin hook in his head cap, but that was fixed easily.

      Even if he is here for 4 months now, I haven't told many people about him. In fact, only three of my friends now about him, 1 of them being interested in dolls too. And sooner or later she visited my and of course wanted to take a look at him. Back then his couch was still on the floor. She grabbed his legs and pulled him down. I just saw his head hitting the floor and his resin hooks breaking again. But he landed on his butt, his upper body still bent from the sitting position he was in.

      They aren't as bad as some I have read so far in this thread so I hope nothing worse than that will happen to me and my resin family >3 <
       
    6. My one really bad BJD experience was about 4 years ago, when I completely fell in love with a new doll from a company that I wasn't familiar with. This company was relatively new outside Asia at that point, had only about 3 sculpts and I didn't know anyone who owned one. I am not sure if the company is still active but it still has it's fans and I don't want to insult anyone else's taste so I will just call her "Doll X".

      Naturally I looked for owner pics of Doll X but found none. I searched DOA and found a few other people taken with the sculpt and a number who also owned previous dolls by the same company. They all raved about the sculpt in question and a few were thinking of purchasing her too. I waited a few weeks and kept going back to the truly stunning photos of the doll (lots of photos but mainly from the same 3/4 degree angle) with the custom face-up by a well known and talented face-up artist that they oddly didn't offer even with the full set (if I remember rightly) and there was only one pic of the doll with a plainer face-up. After a few more weeks I now had the funds decided to take the plunge and ordered and was impressed with how quickly the doll arrived. I ordered mine blank as I had fallen for the custom face-up that you couldn't buy and wanted to try my hand at making her like that.

      I HATED that doll from the instant I opened the box. The body was really stiff and unnatural in it's standing pose and worst of all could not sit! I tried all sorts of things to get it to sit, even restringing but the best it could manage was a kind of backward lean with both legs angled out from the knees at a very unnatural position. The face sculpt was bland to the point of minimal and I realised throughout the course of my 5 separate attempts to replicate the face up that the well known face up artist had kind of drawn in so much of the detail that had hooked me. They simply were not in the sculpt. I have never been attracted to bland smooth sculpts, I like some quirk in the features that gives the sculpt personality even before they have a face-up and there was non there with Doll X. I gained even more respect for the face-up artist in question as they obviously could make a smooth pebble look just as characterful and unique.

      Eventually I realised that even if I replicated the face-up (which I eventually did reasonably well) I would have a doll that would only look good from certain angles (the ones shown in all the promo pics) because all the detail was drawn in and looked odd from other angles. It was a disaster. I wiped the face-up and gave her a much less faked bland face-up and sold her on the MP highlighting the posing problems. I was amazed/relieved how the fans of that company didn't care and she sold within a week! Just goes to show how different our tastes are!

      A few years on and my own love of Dollstown comes to mind... I put up with the bloated ankles and the fact that my dolls legs are possessed by tiny kicky demons. Anyone who owns the 18 year girl body has battled those demons on a larger and even more aggressive scale and had to resort to wiring and sueding and even taping the knee joints for the smallest amount of co-operation... but they are just so characterful that I put up with it. We all have our weaknesses I guess ;)
       
    7. I've only got two YoSDs so far, and they're so small and easy to handle that there have been very minimal bad experiences with them (luckily, so far, fingers crossed @.@). But I do remember that the worst experience I've had thus far was probably the day after I'd gotten my first Yo, a Honey Delf Luts named Raz. And he was wonderful and adorable, but a little loosely strung. And...the s-hook in his head wouldn't fit through the neck joint.

      I'd ordered him blank, so he had no clothes or anything, so I was trying to take his head off so I could put the clothes on him that I had. And his s-hook just wouldn't budge. Now, I was a new doll owner but I'd done my research and...well, sometimes I'm just really stupid XD so I thought, I'll just slip the ELASTIC OFF THE S HOOK AND CATCH THE ELASTIC BEFORE IT SNAPS INTO HIS NECKHOLE AND no. No that did not work.

      Long story short, my very first doll crumpled in my hands into tiny dolly body parts and I had to completely restring him, on my own, by myself, after trying not to hyperventilate. My friend was at work and couldn't help me, and I was alone in the house (not like anyone in my family knew how to restring him).

      Maybe not the thing that'll set your teeth on edge, but my heart did stop at that moment.
       
    8. I have had a few experiences such as a chipped faceup, black dot on my Amber's faceup I dont know what from, broken fingers (there is something faulty with Monzo's hands), misplaced parts (I finally found a broken fang in the vacum bag), ugly faceup on my Hyperon, soom outfits not fitting the big bust, two right legs sent to me (soom ignored that message altogether), and a random nutball making threats claiming my head is a recast when it has a Soom faceup LOL.

      But what takes the cake is when soom sent me a tanned upper torso with bad marbeling. The torso resin did not match the color of the other body parts and the marbeling was significant. It should never had been sent to me considering what the doll cost. Soom responded it is part of natural resin process and other people were nitpicking about Vesuvia resin. Admittedly the person complaining about the Vesuvia resin seemed unfounded to me as well, but this torso part was plain defective.

      It's nice to vent...but now I realize there have been a lot of not good experiences with soom and added up how very much frigging money I gave soom over the years...


      ...I still want to go buy another soom doll.

      If I felt Soom's new prices were justified I would have totally gotten snow white and jethro. Soom are still my favorite maker of BJDs, if I can only convince them to somehow go back to their old pricing structure because right now I am already regretting not getting them but then again the cost is too scary and I can't justify that much money for a basic doll...this is turning into a bad dolly experience. Damn you, soom.
       
    9. Ahh Soom, how many people have you disappointed?

      My last BJD purchase from a company was for Soom's faery legend crow in light blue resin. admittedly the face-scupt didn't wow me when I saw it on the website (I really only wanted the fantast parts.)
      But when he was finally delivered to me, I found that I really loved his facescupt! and hated the color of his resin!

      The color wasn't the soft pastel blue that I had been hoping for, it was a bit green making him look light teal.
      I couldn't sell him fast enough, luckly I found a buyer for him.

      This was more a big dissappointment then anything else.
       
    10. Once when I was changing my doll's heads (I had two that shared one body at that point), I had set one head on my laptop keyboard while I pried the other off. Unfortunately, the mechanism to keep the screen upright was weak on this laptop, and the screen fell down onto his face. He was fine, but his nose completely cracked the LCD display *_*

      People wise, there was just one. A girl who lived in the same area that I used to commissioned me to do faceups on a number of dolls she had. She invited me over and I spent the night while I was working on her dolls. She told me she would send me money when they were done, but I never received it. Other than her, most people in this hobby have been fantastic.
       
    11. My worst experience (which could have been worse I guess) was when my first SD doll toppled over face first during a photoshoot and 4 of his fingers snapped off. It instilled a fear in me of being more than an inch away from a standing doll.
       
    12. I posted in this thread before but I don't remember what I posted and can't seem to find my post..

      anyway my worst expirience haven't been to bad

      -there was a time that I bought a limited tan Bambicrony doll. It was the first time I had purchased from a company and the first time I ordered a faceup. I did the wait after purchase and then the shipping wait and then something happened the day she was supposed to arrive...i waited at my boyfriends apartmentand ran to the mailbox when the postman came. No doll :( the postman went above and beyond for me though and he went back to the office and looked around and Ii believe it took a few days but he found my package and called me after post hours to let me know he found it. :D

      -then I purchased a dollzone body off the marketplace. It was during a time that I was purchasing doll items without thinking them through (the body was pink and the head i had was yellow, didn't research resin matches ect) i also didn't realize the seller was in Europe. In the post she said she'd cover shipping but not what type of shipping method. I just went with it though and when I attempted to track the body i got nothing. Some lovely members here helped me figure out what happened and basically she shipped the body the slowest way. I wrote the body off as done for and all but forgotabout Iit when one day the body showed up- several months later but still.
       
    13. Hmm, the first doll I bought from the Marketplace arrived broken. The doll is strung with some complicated spring system, so it was not an easy fix. The artist for the doll actually agreed to fix her if I'd mail her to her (in Japan) and also pay for shipping back, and she would get to her when she had time.... It took a lot of time unfortunately (I am still just happy she got fixed at all)
       
    14. My worst experience ever is currently taking place. :(
      Early December, I had an unexpected purchase for a lovely Littlefee Ante tan secondhand. It was an unexpected purchase but I really liked her, so I used a big part of my savings to pay her. As I didn't have much savings I talked with the seller who was kind enough to lower the insurance price to don't have huge customs taxes I wouldn't have been able to pay. Afterall the doll will be shipped via USPS/EMS and it was to me the safer shipping option as it is fully tracked, and I never got an Express/EMS package lost through several years in the hobbie. Unfortunately, December is a bad month for packages because of Christmas vacations and everything around it, and once my package took off the American territory, I never got any news about my package... According to the tracking, my package never landed in France airport... So it's in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean as it is no more in USA but not in France ever... (actually it has probably been "lost" once it landed in France airport) It is now almost 2 months that I didn't get any news about my package, nobody can't help me and my seller didn't have much more help either on her side. And moreover, I'm not only sad and anxious to don't know where my doll landed up because it's such a precious thing to me, but as I asked the seller to lower the insurance, I won't be able to get back all my money either. I'm very angry and sad against the people who didn't do correctly their work and lost or stole my doll. :(
       
    15. I think the worst experiences for me in this hobby has been with magnets or pieces breaking. Magnets are my enemy it seems. When I received a Soom Faery Legend doll I went to glue in her magnets and was so excited to get her wings in that I didn't notice that I glued it in backwards in her torso. I tried everything to get it out, acetone, freezing etc and no luck. Finally I broke down and asked Soom if they would make me a replacement torso. They were kind enough to agree to this.

      Then I got another Soom Faery who I had just received and sat her on the counter. My husband didn't notice her and accidently knocked her off. Her wing shattered into pieces! I was upset but my husband was worse, but we were able to get replacements for them as well.

      Next, I was feeling brave and decided to sit my Soom Breccia in a tree for some pictures. I thought she was secure but she took a tumble a all of her fingers broke off one of her claw hands. I attached them again with epoxy but it will always be a bit off.
       
    16. I'm going through this too but with a company. I had a package mailed out from Japan Jan 24. It's never updated since Jan 25. USPS says it's in Japanese customs (How they know that when tracking says it's left?!) and the company says it's left Japan. Just two more weeks to go before I can contact the company. Hoping they can replace it, or will give me my money back. My friend ordered the same thing, her's shipped Jan 26, and she got it a day or two ago. I know NYC had that snowstorm, but that's been cleared up since she got hers!
       
    17. Usually it says that bit on the tracking while customs is processing the package.... this isnt always the case however... sometimes it updates pretty quick to saying it was in and out and where it was off to next. But I have had tracking take a few days to update (in state no less x.x). It's only been a week so perhaps it is just taking a long time in customs? Also... U.S. tracking wont update really until after a package has arrived within U.S. borders according to what I read about tracking on their website and elsewhere. So them saying that it is still there could mean that it has in fact left.... or that it is still there. Even if the customs on the other end says it has been processed through the facility, this doesnt mean that it has in fact left customs... I've noticed before that it will say that and then update again later once it actually has left with that same bit of info... then at some point it gets corrected and the actual tracking is listed. It is really strange O.o
       
    18. Dispatch from outward office of exchange at 5:05PM

      That's what it says on both Track-Trace and USPS. After that, it's vanished. It's never hit a plane or anything...I've given up on it now. Hoping it's not $80 down the drain.
       
    19. scary stories people...my worst experiance was having my heliot horn head held hostage for a couple of months back in 2009.or 2010??
      the person had other complaints and im just lucky I got him back...I told them I had family in the police force in florida so thats why I got my doll head back...it was someone in florida that did faceups but is no longer on doa...yay..I hate the people that prey on you..hoping to steal your doll or head.
      lots of scary stories here on doa but thats how the real world is..its not just here
       
    20. [MENTION=2245]Rynn007[/MENTION], was the package sent air or surface mail? I have a package inbound from China (Taobao order) that took about two weeks to update that it had reached the US (and is now stuck in customs), likely in part thanks to the massive port delays around LA right now. If it's going via a surface method, it may indeed be "stuck somewhere in the ocean," or stuck at the port waiting for the ship to unload.

      I hope whatever it is, your package shows up soon!