Dollfie Dream USA and Japan Still no restock for months!

Aww this sucks D: I really wanted to buy a body but for months i've been checking and she has been out of stock. Hopefully they get that order in so we don't have to wait indefinitely ~

Am I the only one who forgot to pay attention to the date before trying to check something on the Volks site? *stupid moment of the day*

How much do you want to be I'll do the same thing again tomorrow?

 

~Sister Kyoya who is just silly...

Honestly I can understand why they are putting the redirect on there - but ugh its super annoying especially for trying to do research on older outfits that were out of stock already. And do they really need a week to change the prices? (Admitting, I know next to nil about running a business) Just that seems really long if they're updating the prices just due to the strength of the dollar/economy etc esp if they've already had some of the example prices already made up.

 

They really need to stock more DDH heads though... I love my DDH-04, but that's about the only avaiable one.. (well maybe the DDH-01 or 2 I forget... but wheres the 03 and 06 TT^TT)

Honestly I can understand why they are putting the redirect on there - but ugh its super annoying especially for trying to do research on older outfits that were out of stock already. And do they really need a week to change the prices?

 

I also go to the Volks site a lot to check up on what they have to even get a guess what's possible and not being able to do that has been very frustrating.

 

After having a web design class last quarter in college (and my prof telling me I should pursue web design) I can understand why they have the site down for that long, even if it just to make sure there is nothing wrong. I have spent hours some days trying to fix my own webpages after I 'fixed' one thing and have it break everything else. So even though they are changing prices, there are a lot of them to change, check, and recheck to make sure the site is still stable once they are done. That doesn't even include cross-browser compatibility either which is a beast all it's own.

 

Who knows, maybe they gave their regular employees some extra time off this week!

 

~Sister Kyoya

the re-direct defeats me! I hate how i want to view a doll bio from an old lottery girl hosted by them and I press stop, yell stop, click...click...click lol it defeats me!

I'm new to the site and somewhat new to the whole doll thing, but I think what the shortages indicate is the hobby is rapidly growing. To support the growing theory, my experience is that almost all the sites I've recently been to are short of what I would refer to as basics, such as: lower cost doll stands, plain solid color long or short sleeve shirts, Blue Jeans, simple high heeled shoes (pumps?) and popular wigs for female size dolls. Anything I really like seems to have been listed out of stock, and I think my taste is pretty mainstream. But take in to account my experience is simply my experience. I'm used to limited runs of things having collected N-scale trains for years, but there you could always find an undecorated or suitable item for conversion. Here, for Dollfie Dreams, Volks is the single source. I wonder if they're also trying to re-engineer some of the weak or prone-to-break areas that some people are experiencing?

the re-direct defeats me! I hate how i want to view a doll bio from an old lottery girl hosted by them and I press stop, yell stop, click...click...click lol it defeats me!

 

Internet Wayback Machine is your friend for these things

Also the Intl site still has their nice list of previous girls they've made, so at least thats something

 

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As for site redirects .. yeah.. having been one of those people that maintained a website for ages... Taking whole thing at once instead of tryin to work around it is much faster and easier. This way they can do full database updates instead of going page by single page and tweaking things

Maybe someone realized we pesky customers keep tryin to buy things and this at least tells EVERYONE that its closed (people never do read signs on shops otherwise =P) They aren't just changing prices on the main site - someone has to sit there and update the actual numbers in the Yahoo Store section as well

Alas, still no sign of a whiteskin base body. Too bad I can't buy in parts or else I would just do that. I hope they restock soon...

Alas, still no sign of a whiteskin base body. Too bad I can't buy in parts or else I would just do that. I hope they restock soon...

 

Actually, a VERY good friend of mine has a WS DDS for sale in the classifieds and over on Figurefm. Check with Mitsuki for that.

 

EDIT: Here's her FS post:

 

viewtopic.php?f=37&t=4406

 

 

 

 

Billy

when Volks will restock bodies T_T ? im full of sadness

when Volks will restock bodies T_T ? im full of sadness

 

Who knows? The Japanese stores are also sold out of the DDIII/DDS/DDDyIII frames, so you can't even buy all of the pieces to build one if you wanted to.

i only know that Volks will no more release DDII body. They will be withdrawn from their shop offer :/ in sale there will be only new MDD and DDIII body on whole dolls.

When I went to pick up Saber Nero on Saturday I was talking with Dandy and I asked her if the base bodies would be discontinued and she said they hadn't gotten any word about it. As far as they know they will still be selling them whenever they are sent more. So if Volks does have plans to discontinue them they haven't said anything to the US branch yet.

Hmm. Last month I was able to order a DDII body at my Tenshi no Sumika and it came in in a week. Was I just really lucky?

Volks USA not restocked anything but in case they eventually will, they updated the prices for the base bodies:

- $254.00 for Dollfie Dream Base Body II (NS/WS)

- $278.00 for Dollfie Dream Dynamite Base Body

- $240 for MDD Base Body

- $376 for all DDS body parts

No bodies yet but it seems they are slowly getting restocks? I just ordered a pair of 'sword hands' which were out of stock like a week ago I think? I'm happy because my Saber can FINALLY hold her weapon now and whatever else I give her.

 

Just figured I post since I saw someone on here saying that they need hands. lol

I was able to buy a Shapely L Bust from Volks USA site.

They restocked many hands, tweed carrying case, and also the upper torso internal frame in stock as well for anyone who needed that to complete their girls!

This is good news! I'd like to get more option hands.

They restocked many hands, tweed carrying case, and also the upper torso internal frame in stock as well for anyone who needed that to complete their girls!

 

Volks USA is beating my local Volks store (a rather big one) in that regard. They have lots of hands, but no frames or tweed carrying cases.

Volks USA is beating my local Volks store (a rather big one) in that regard. They have lots of hands, but no frames or tweed carrying cases.

Oh wow that's surprising! I would have had no doubt that the stores in Japan would get stock before Volks USA, how weird

Volks USA is beating my local Volks store (a rather big one) in that regard. They have lots of hands, but no frames or tweed carrying cases.

Oh wow that's surprising! I would have had no doubt that the stores in Japan would get stock before Volks USA, how weird

 

Well, the stocks are very different per store it seems. But it is odd. I can buy a full set Aoi v1 or Aoi v2 and there's outfits that have been long sold out on the web store (such as the pink nurse outfit, the Natsuki red magical girl outfit, the pink lolita "Cherished Rose" outfit, etc) and lots of other things. But I haven't found DDIII/DDS/DDDy frames *anywhere*.

Maybe they sent extra frames in case any of the Sabers turned up broken, but they're selling off the extras now

On Volks Japan webshop there are listed all individual parts for DD III body, some even available.

 

I calculated the total cost for DD III body.

I added arms, upper and lower torso, frame from DDS, legs (2 parts) and feet, and one pair of hands.

And it added to 32550 JPY total.

By today's exchange rate from xe.com, it's ~420 USD... well...

On Volks Japan webshop there are listed all individual parts for DD III body, some even available.

 

I calculated the total cost for DD III body.

I added arms, upper and lower torso, frame from DDS, legs (2 parts) and feet, and one pair of hands.

And it added to 32550 JPY total.

By today's exchange rate from xe.com, it's ~420 USD... well...

 

Yep. Unless/until Volks sells separate bodies again (which they may or may not), then bodies for DDs are just going to stay expensive. And then people come around and complain about people selling DDIIs for over $300... That's just how things are now.