>>6106213Milk Tea does gorgeous full-set customs, unfortunately they always sell for several thousand bucks on Y!J.
At least her sets are worth it, compared to the 2000$ freckle monsters you get in the west.
>>6106085>>6106213Due recasts and more and more cheap companies it's easier to attract the "I JUST WANT A DOLL!!!1" crowd.
However, they tend to not stick around for forever.
The newbie ones who buy what they like tend to stay, mature and get better.
Location and other collectors really make a difference too though.
If I look at my local collectors it's just super hard to get a nice looking doll.
Customs are expensive, there are barely inspiring local people, most face-up artists are shit or closed, many of them don't speak English.
Unless you import everything, send out your doll far away to get painted and manage to widen your horizon through non-local communities you will forever be trapped in the shitty looking, boring hell.
Too many people in this hobby are not only lazy but also easily scared, unwilling to risk things, have zero creativity and are stupid as fuck.
Can't say much about "why not buying from other cheap companies".
I bet some of them did do research and still went for that cheap AoD because they know someone who owns one too and now know what to expect.
Fuck. I nearly ordered a DZ back then because of that, even though I still did do a lot of research.
