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Start with an inexpensive doll, start with a very expensive doll, start with any doll that makes you happy, this is your doll story beginning and it’s your money. Get the doll that calls to you after some thought. There are no mistakes, you can keep it forever or sell it and get a new one (or three or five). Have fun, love your doll and be happy.

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Hello I'm the person from a little while ago telling you about my recasts and telling about my story of how I love them to death. I was looking on bjd confessions and they basically copied my sentence changing things basically saying I was a piece if shit for not selling my recasts. It kinda made me feel more upset knowing there's people in the world who desperately go in the ways of people to make them feel worse just because they have legits and others don't. LIKE REALLY?!?!? :'(

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I follow some very active anti recast person on instagram and boy little does she know I adore her dolls and buy recasts of some I like. If only she knew she inspire me of buying what she hates the most 😂

Saw a Venitu for sale not long ago for I think 1400. I can’t decide if I hope for the sellers sake it sold already or if I hope anyone interested didn’t already buy it at that price.

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Honestly people always say recasts have bad faceups but I have never had issues and even get compliments from the antis for my dolls 'gorgeous faceups'. A recast custom faceup is 35$, sometimes 40$ if you want many details and freckles and it is always sheer perfection and done in 3 days. I don't have time to wait 6 months for a doll and then wait 3 months for a faceup. I do faceups myself and it takes me 4 days at max when I work full time on the side. 3 Months is a scam...

It's a fact that painting on top of resin it's not affected by the shipping label origin, but by your ability to actually get the faceup right.

it took me more that three years to save up for a doll. The doll costs less than 200$ and it still took me 3 years because I’m damn broke and don’t get enough money with my job. I could have bought a cheap legit, but there is so much hate, recast owners need to eat too, they also struggle with money. It’ll probably take me a full yeah before I can order him his outfit, and other three or more years to buy his partner’s, but who cares? I’m in not an artist, so "screw me", right?

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So the other day I tried to buy a legit doll from someone and they declined because I dont have enough feedback. That person has followed my legit account for 3 years so Im not sure what they are on about.

This whole „you need a bunch of feedback to get this doll“ thing gets on my nerves. How can antis not see how unwelcoming that is and how new people might be drawn towards recasts because of it?

Ngl if the doll Im talking about ever gets recasted I’ll buy three just out of spite.

That's pretty much how I got my first recast. The artist wasn't shipping to the states, if I wanted it I had to hire a guy in asia to buy the exact doll on a couple minutes window and then ship it here, so I finally spend like five years for nothing and in that time it got recasted.

Now to that kind of people, I offer them just a tissue...

I just ran into a few posts on an antirecast person's page, where they were calling out YouTubers, mocking how they should respect and love one another by saying "hippie" crap or whatnot. Well someone call Cindi Lauper because they sure showed their true colors.

Why are you still buying legits ? to be part of the arsehole elite ? I am a student without wage, except when I work on holidays, I sometimes have money for my bday or Xmas, sometimes small amounts beside from my parents, and I still can buy dolls, and be part of the community. I wait, spare, sell, re-wait for the good opportunity to buy the doll I want for cheap or at the good moment on ali sales. And I’m quite proud of it. Why are you still buying expensive legits ? It's exactly the same !

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I usually try to save up and buy legit when I find a doll I want, but then always find I'm too scared of doing something I can't fix to a doll I just spent months saving for, which has made practicing any customizations pretty much a no-go for me. I recently bought one of my long discontinued grails from oueneifs, though, and it's been so amazing to get to mod a doll and make them mine without being scared of "ruining" them. I finally got to practice dyeing a doll! :D She turned out incredible!!

Congrats on your efforts, anon. That's the joy of not spending 5 year savings on a single snap.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if it’s Volks, Minifee, Soom, Resinsoul, an artist BJD, some obscure-ass company or a recast. It doesn’t matter if the faceup is flawless art or the shittiest n00b crayon trash ever. Clothes, eyes, wig, etc, doesn’t fucking matter. Professional photography or badly lit shit. Does your doll make you happy? Do you look at it and smile and enjoy it and have your mind filled with happy doll thoughts? Then you have the best doll ever. Yes, you.

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That Minifee went from $1,200 to $900, and while it’s an improvement, it’s still way too expensive. Nobody is ever going to spend that much on a Minifee and considering the body is about $365 new, there’s no way the head is worth $535. You wonder why recast Minifee are so popular? well, here might be the reason.

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I feel like me owning recasts is one of the least destructive things I’ve done. A lot of my clothes are fast fashion, I’ve used makeup with materials mined by child labourers getting payed as little as a penny a day, the processed food I buy ruins habitats for animals, etc. An artist not getting money from me is not the same as a child dying an early death due to the conditions they’re in. And if I do start caring about my impact on the bjd world let’s start with the people who make the resin. They are constantly around dangerous chemicals and do the artists care about that? No. So why should I care about their life when they are harming people too?

It probably is...

I like how antis are like "if you can buy x amount of recasts you can buy a legit." that's the thing, I can buy multiple recasts for less than the price of one (usually for the same quality as well). Also not to mention that sometimes people build their collection up over many years so someone having multiple recasts doesn't mean they bought them all at once.

Every time I hear an antirecast "pro artists" argument, I realize they're their own worse enemies...

Whenever I'm going to buy a doll, I first buy a recast head of it to practice it's faceup on (if available). I don't understand people willing to ruin a $600 doll just because "recasts".

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Many artist dolls are overpriced. I own mainly legits and I think even 300-500$ is still an ok price for SOME dolls from small artists because production cost, fees, material, working hours and such piles up quickly. But ain't no way companies like fairyland who are pumping out the same copy paste heads and function the same way as a recast factory by now with just copying their old sculpted and slightly changing the eyes on the ''new sculpts'' can't lower their prices.

If Resin Soul can deliver quality, good costumer service, custom colors and orders, and original sculpts, for the price of a Volks recast, I bet all companies can.

Their problem it's that they dress up the "I want cash" with a "we're morally superior artists and our work it's expensive" argument. If you ask them upfront, I bet they can't answer it.

If you "need new stuff for your dolls to be inspired about the hobby again", then the problem it's you and how you perceive the hobby. This is a hobby about creativity, not only mindlessly buying $500K a month to "keep your interest alive". There is a reason why this dolls are custom in the vast majority of cases, it's because they're a brand new canvas for you to use your skills and imagination. Particularly when you don't have money to spare. So basically yes, you're doing it wrong...

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