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29 minutes ago, baldylox said:

how do I add them to my cart and pay for them? 

So I don't know how helpful this will be, but I had a problem finding the email they sent saying I won but like you saw the items as active for me.  Apparently they sent it yesterday, but Gmail decided it was promotional material and put it under the 'promotions' tab at the top of my window.   I've never had this happen before, and I don't know why the filter caught it this time. 

Won all of the items I entered for. It was a mix of popular and non popular items in the Volks Japan website so I am surprised to win all of them for Volks USA. Got myself the two pom pom skirts, the herbalist bag, test tube belt, the blue Yume-Kyun outfit as well the the purple sneakers. It was quite a hefty sum to spend but it's been a while since I've spoiled my dolls. 

If they aren't sold out by then, I'll see if I can get some of the herbalist outfits as well as the hakama set next month.

44 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

You won them. Have you checked your junk mail folder?

Try logging into the system and searching for: Herbalist Mini Bags

That should pull up the item and let you add it to your cart. If for some reason that doesn't work I can PM you the link from my email, and you can try that. 

I did check my junk folder but didn't see anything from the past 2 weeks from Volks.  I logged back into Volks and did a search for the items and once they popped up, the "Add to Cart" button was there so I did that and it let me pay and everything.  Odd how you have to do a work around in order to pay for this stuff!  😉

 

Thanks for the help!

 

 

Billy

3 hours ago, BeyondTime said:

I think not mixing dolls with other items makes sense, because dolls usually have a 4 - 6 week gap between payment and shipment.

I'm kind of wondering if I'm talking about something different.  At the risk of answering something no one is actually asking, I'll give the following elaboration:

During lottery entry, you can't add anything but lottery items to your cart.  At this point you're just doing lottery entries on the lottery subsystem VolksUSA operates.  So even if you did want other in-stock items, you wouldn't add them to this "order."

Once you've won items, and you are adding those to your cart, you can add any other in-stock items.  This is true whether you won a doll or outfits.  I've regularly tossed miscellaneous items into outfit winnings.  As for dolls, when I got the results of the lottery with Rem, I also added a stand and a bodysuit to that order.  At this point you're just doing a normal store order.  It's just that due to the User Groups, you have a few more items unlocked in the store to purchase.

When Rem was available, she was on a separate event page, so I needed the link to complete the purchase.  After I added her to cart, I was able to shop for other items. 

For outfits, if you have User Groups added, you don't necessarily need the Volks email.  You can click Outfits and sort by newest, and your lottery win items will be at the top.  The only thing is that you have to wait until VolksUSA actually posts and releases the items.  

 

3 hours ago, baldylox said:

I did check my junk folder but didn't see anything from the past 2 weeks from Volks.  I logged back into Volks and did a search for the items and once they popped up, the "Add to Cart" button was there so I did that and it let me pay and everything.  Odd how you have to do a work around in order to pay for this stuff!  😉

 

Thanks for the help!

 

 

Billy

On my gmail account, the Volks e-mail for the lottery win/affirmation shows up in the "Promotions" category, rather than directly into your junk/spam folder.

 This clarifies some things:

4 hours ago, Gabriel said:

I'm kind of wondering if I'm talking about something different.  At the risk of answering something no one is actually asking, I'll give the following elaboration:

During lottery entry, you can't add anything but lottery items to your cart.  At this point you're just doing lottery entries on the lottery subsystem VolksUSA operates.  So even if you did want other in-stock items, you wouldn't add them to this "order."

No, we're talking about the same thing. The difference is, I am confused, and you aren't. (and I've probably confused @BeyondTime)

I think the second paragraph there may be the gist of my confusion; I read that somewhere, and thought it applied to the actual order for the items after winning the lottery.

4 hours ago, Gabriel said:

Once you've won items, and you are adding those to your cart, you can add any other in-stock items.  This is true whether you won a doll or outfits.  I've regularly tossed miscellaneous items into outfit winnings.  As for dolls, when I got the results of the lottery with Rem, I also added a stand and a bodysuit to that order.  At this point you're just doing a normal store order.  It's just that due to the User Groups, you have a few more items unlocked in the store to purchase.

When Rem was available, she was on a separate event page, so I needed the link to complete the purchase.  After I added her to cart, I was able to shop for other items. 

And that answers the question.

I will add one other bit, which added to me thinking what I did, but there is probably some other reason for this. The first lottery I ever entered was February 2018, for a Santa hat. I won it, and I remember trying to add something else to my cart and my cart was emptied of the lottery item. However, after two years that's all I know, and it's certainly likely it was some kind of website glitch, or who knows. Whatever it was, it reinforced what I believe based on what I thought Volks was telling me.

Edited March 1, 2020 by cfx

What I was saying is that Volks might not want you mixing a lottery doll with other items because there is often a six week lead time on the doll shipment. If they let you do it, then they let you do it. The only other lottery dolls I’ve won through Volks USA were Oscar and Mars, and that lottery also included the Juban high outfit which had the same lead time as the dolls. No recollection if they said anything about not adding other stuff to the order. 
 

I think I do recall an order restriction being listed for pre-order dolls, and that does make sense. 

Edited March 1, 2020 by BeyondTime

36 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

What I was saying is that Volks might not want you mixing a lottery doll with other items because there is often a six week lead time on the doll shipment. If they let you do it, then they let you do it.

That was the point I was making in the last message though, was you brought that up because I said I had read that they didn't let you order other things with the doll. It's a logical reason why they wouldn't, but since they do it's a moot point.

I think the answer is as @Gabriel said; I confused what Volks says about the lottery entry itself with what you can do when you actually order the item(s) you win. And there may have been different rules for the dolls when they were lottery on Volks Japan.

Edited March 1, 2020 by cfx

52 minutes ago, cfx said:

I think the answer is as @Gabriel said; I confused what Volks says about the lottery entry itself with what you can do when you actually order the item(s) you win.

That makes sense. 

Kaede in the jacket, so you can see the fit.

 

 

 

Edited March 9, 2020 by BeyondTime

That doesn't look bad at all, except those sleeves are just way too long. They must have sized the sleeves to be fully long enough on SD16, or even long on that, as while so many Volks outfits have sleeves that are long on DD, in my experience they typically only cover the back of the hand rather than going practically to the knuckles like shown here.

The only outfit I bought that has them that long is the Deep Blue military outfit that's really made for SD13B and SDGrB but claims to fit DD (it doesn't).

I see it's a little big around the collar, not a big deal and which is also common with outfits sized for SD, but if it was worn with a shirt with a collar that wouldn't show at all.

And Volks claims the white riders jacket is compatible with DDS; it'd cover the entire hand there! 😕

I wish Volks would adopt some version of the Azone fit charts, where there's a little more information like "fits good" "fits loose" "fits tight" etc. After buying enough things that I've been disappointed with, I do have some understanding of how likely something is to fit well or not no matter what Volks tells me, and I'm just a lot more cautious now in what I buy if I can't find pictures of it on DD.

The Rider jacket is not as bad as I thought. Still, its going to take some creative posing and maybe some slight alterations.

28 minutes ago, lardroom said:

The Rider jacket is not as bad as I thought. Still, its going to take some creative posing and maybe some slight alterations.

Bending her arms pulls the sleeves up, I am thinking maybe that’s why they are long with them straight, so that active poses look ok. 

22 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

Bending her arms pulls the sleeves up, I am thinking maybe that’s why they are long with them straight, so that active poses look ok. 

Maybe that's why they seem to be longer than usual, if they did that with SD16 in mind.

In posing, I guess you could cheat a bit by pulling the elbows out like they are after you've bent them, to effectively make the arms longer.

So I got my order from VolksUSA today! A couple of comments on my side for some of the items:

For those of you that are curious about the purple sneakers, I would say that they won't be a nice look/fit on an MDD unless you are going for the large foot look. They do look good on a DDP scale-wise but I believe that is shown on the official Volks pictures with Coron and Ribbon.

Something that surprised me was that the herbalist bag is bigger than what the official pictures represented. Having it with me, it looks way too big to even be worn as a DDS medium bag/purse as it looks more like a backpack or a big canvas bag for the size. A little disappointing since I wanted it specifically for my DDPs as a medium size bag but guess Usagi or Ranka will have it. It is still super cute and I got it because I own a similar bag.

Does anyone know how much the black turtleneck stains? I dont even want to touch anything after handling it.

 

Although I am finding it funny how Volks lined the shorts but didn't line the turtleneck.

1 hour ago, lardroom said:

Although I am finding it funny how Volks lined the shorts but didn't line the turtleneck.

I think they never line knits, at least from what I've seen.

2B in the White Rider Jacket. I was extremely surprised how well the DDDy body and assets work with this jacket. I threw it on the mermaid she just happened to be wearing, cause I was too lazy to change to a more casual outfit, and it looked amazing.

There's a bit of cheating because the A-type waist stand is shaping the jacket, bu it's not terribly dissimilar to cinching down the side straps on the jacket to their most extreme.

That Kaede and that 2B made me add this jacket to my long wishlist xD

1 hour ago, Singer Yuna said:

That Kaede and that 2B made me add this jacket to my long wishlist xD

Knowing Volks, we may see this in black before too long.

37 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

Knowing Volks, we may see this in black before too long.

I think they already made a black version. It was in the rider set consisting of jeans, hoodie, and a rider jacket. Its disappeared from both websites, but Lady Oscar was modeling it

 

Oh. Here it is. I wanted it a lot, but sold out:

https://myfigurecollection.net/item/938823

Edited March 16, 2020 by lardroom

Just in case anyone was curious, here's 2B in a DDDy normal bust wearing the black turtleneck and the green fishtail jacket.  She is wearing her full bodysuit , is taped in exposed places, and is using a spare normal bust, cause Volks black... They're still available on VolksUSA, but arent as amazing as the rider jacket. They fit a DDDy pretty well, although her boobs are preventing the fishtail from closing all the way. No cheating on the wrists and they are inserted all the way. This was night shot/low light practice, with a warmish light.

Toobs42 by Lardroom, on Flickr

 

Toobs43 by Lardroom, on Flickr

 

Toobs45 by Lardroom, on Flickr

Edited March 26, 2020 by lardroom

I really like the first picture. The outfit is nice...I was concerned about the turtleneck staining. The shorts fit 2B well, which probably means they'll look loose/baggy on regular DD.

I am really surprised that the coat sleeves are an appropriate length.

18 minutes ago, cfx said:

I really like the first picture. The outfit is nice...I was concerned about the turtleneck staining. The shorts fit 2B well, which probably means they'll look loose/baggy on regular DD.

I am really surprised that the coat sleeves are an appropriate length.

The shorts have 2 threads at the waist for the metal catch and 2B is using the narrowest one. Regular DD has an even narrower waist and twiggy thighs in comparison.

Looking at the SDGr model on Volks website, it even fits a bit loose on her and in one picture the model looks like she has an unfortunate case of Hank Hill syndrome. DDDy fits these shorts perfectly.

So far so good on the lack of stains, but I took extra precautions on this one.

Bonus side profile for shorts:

Toobs46 by Lardroom, on Flickr

Edited March 26, 2020 by lardroom

1 hour ago, lardroom said:

Regular DD has an even narrower waist and twiggy thighs in comparison.

Yeah, the thigh size was what I was thinking of because even if there was any kind of adjustment for the waist, it wasn't going to help there. Given how they look on the SD modeling them, they're likely sized for SD16. For some reason that isn't stated on the Volks USA page, but they do fit SD16 as shown on Volks Japan:

https://dollfie.ec.volks.co.jp/category/D_191214_DP42/4518992427102.html

Really, any pants or shorts that work on DDdy aren't going to look good on DD, no matter what Volks may claim about fit compatibility.

My biggest worry about tops like this is always if it could stain the head since it may touch the chin. Busts can be stain treated; it's a scary proposition on heads, and impossible to do if there's a custom faceup.

Another nice picture.