#mudoll

[tophthedaydreamer]

got a precious little bean in the mail today!!! my very first bjd!!!! 

i got her from mudoll, a doll company based in korea, and wow. she looks just like the picture!!!! she’s so darling!!!!

what should i name her :O

[cydril]

MUDOLL Ball-Jointed doll Factory

Look at theeese!

[cosmiceddie]

❄️ ✨ Merry and bright ✨ ❄️

[real-bjd-recast-community]

More of a question. I love my recasts but want to have at least one that comes from its original company. I stumbled upon some really cheap ones from a shop named Mudoll BJD on TaoBao and first thought they must recasts, but then saw they were shipped from Korea, the higher shipping cost being one evidence for that . What's strange is that they're much cheaper on TaoBao than on their website. Could they be impersonating an already existing company? Is this a possible Chinese practice?

Yes Anon, they are legit, they’re not “impersonating an already existing company”. MuDoll (Glib) it’s a bit shady as a legit company (they are producing the FelixDoll “Brownies”, and even if FelixDoll is a, now defunct company, we all remember far too well when they declare bankruptcy in 2010, after months of taking the money of so many legit loyal costumers, and then the company changed it’s name and was owned by the wife of the previous owner, leading to the obvious conclusion that they declare bankruptcy just to legally keep thousands of thousands of dollars and deliver absolutely nothing to their costumers in a time where there was little to no protection for any payment made pass 30 days), and I will advice you to buy from other legit sites, if you want to buy legit and cheap (there are a lot of other options), but yes, they are legit.

The thing about TaoBao it’s that they don’t sell outside China (and Asia in general terms). So if you don’t live there (or have some relative that can buy stuff for you and then ship it outside to your country), you might browse their web and think “it’s cheaper”, but the prices are only for the internal asian market, for you, a western outsider (I presume), prices are higher. If you want to buy from TaoBao you will need a middleman, an agent, a service that will charge you a fee (like TaoBao Trends or TaoBao Ring), and that extra fee will be most likely the difference you’re saving by buying from TaoBao so it’s the same if you buy straight from the company website (made for western costumers).

Historically, the difference between the price listed on the Korean and Chinese or Japanese version of a site, and the price on US dollars for international costumers, has being and issue. There was a point in the bjd history when many sites had a difference from up to +%50 on their western websites. Elitists (now proartists or antirecasts, as you want to call them) let them get away with it for far too long adducing all sort of reasons that could never be proven beyond what someone said on a forum, but eventually, the rest of the people push them so hard to explain their prices and why there was a difference, that many companies (that are well known, from DollZone to Volks) had to made the so called “adjustment in the price exchange rate”, and using the same price on all versions of their websites (or lower the difference at not more than %5 percent from the original internal asian price).

You are not going to find this info anywhere else, the only ones who know about are the ones who were there when it happened. There was little to no information about bjds at the time, there was no social networks or blogs outside asia, no facebook groups or smartphones, only DOA (Dean of Angels) and they made damn well sure to delete all this information from their forum to keep the appearance that “all legit websites are angels born without a single sin” and recasters or recast owners are the real devils in this hobby.

So buy smart and safe Anon, don’t rush it just to get a better price on a legit, sometimes you actually do need to know a bit of history to know what sites to avoid, even if MuDollhas no reports right now about any bad behavior towards their costumers (not that antis will let us know anyway), neither did FelixDoll prior the day they declare bankruptcy all of the sudden. I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but most reliable company for legit cheap options it’s still ResinSoul, for a list of other cheap legit companies read this post.

[cosmiceddie]

Summer evening adventures ~

[cosmiceddie]

I love the way the light comes through the beauty bushes in our backyard and they make for lovely pictures...! Until your doll falls out of a bush, six feet to the ground and hits her head on the metal step stool you’re standing on. I’m so sorry, Babs. Still, you looked so pretty with those flowers ;3;

[cosmiceddie]

“Babette, what are you doing back there...?“

“There’s someone hiding behind this bench with a camera! :V ”

[cosmiceddie]

Just waiting around...