Paranoia

Shuuchi · Post by **Shuuchi** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:57 am

Hello, I`m Shuuchi and I`ve been looking into buying a DS doll recently.

I've done a fair amount of research on my own but there are still many suspicions I have regarding these dolls such as lifespan/reliability, warranty, merchant trustworthiness, etc.

I'd appreciate if an experienced/long-time doll owner could give me their honest opinion(s).
Is it worth the expenses, time and effort required to preserve and repair the dolls? Do you think there are better choices in the market than DS dolls, both quality and price wise? Is DS trustworthy?

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, has anyone in Canada bought one of these dolls? How long did it take to make/ship? How are the taxes/customs once it arrived? Would it be better to look for a local (north american) doll maker instead of one that is overseas?

Thank you for your time.

Sotaichou · Post by **Sotaichou** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:36 am

I'm definitely all eyes/ears for this. if someone in Canada can attest to their experience.

All I've always assumed for us Canadians with any silicone dolls is, customs is double the shipping cost, so you never get caught w/ your pants down. (so to speak.

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*pm sent as something mentioned is a non ds related info. you would also need 5 posts to reply to pms if did want to.

/g'day.

Shuuchi · Post by **Shuuchi** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:52 am

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Stupid Things To Avoid

Here are some extra tips (aside from avoiding UPS Ground) that can save you from trouble.

Don’t ship porn or gay/lesbian interest materials. The CBSA people arguably fancy themselves to be some kind of morality police.
There’s a lot of other categories of sexual products they will reject, but I won’t get into the details or argue about whether or not the government should be the morality police in this blog. You can find this information if you need it. Just use your common sense.
If the seller of some eBay or other forum item is promising to unconditionally pay the customs / duty fees, it’s probably a scam and the seller will likely vanish right after you make payment.
Don’t get caught trying to get shippers to make false declarations, such as incorrect dollar values or gift declarations for non-gifts. The CBSA can re-assess the values of things, and will not believe your gift declaration unless certain conditions are met. If you get caught trying to scam something across the border, you may get onto the CBSA hit-list and be subject to more frequent and stringent screening.

Do dolls fall into this catagory?

Shuuchi · Post by **Shuuchi** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:56 am

A passage from https://doesitblog.wordpress.com/2010/0 ... to-canada/

Here are some extra tips (aside from avoiding UPS Ground) that can save you from trouble.

Don’t ship porn or gay/lesbian interest materials. The CBSA people arguably fancy themselves to be some kind of morality police.
There’s a lot of other categories of sexual products they will reject, but I won’t get into the details or argue about whether or not the government should be the morality police in this blog.

I guess that's it, huh...

haremlover · Post by **haremlover** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:10 am

Shuuchi wrote:. . . but there are still many suspicions I have regarding these dolls such as lifespan/reliability, warranty, merchant trustworthiness, etc.

I'd appreciate if an experienced/long-time doll owner could give me their honest opinion(s).
Is it worth the expenses, time and effort required to preserve and repair the dolls? Do you think there are better choices in the market than DS dolls, both quality and price wise? Is DS trustworthy?

All of us with experience of DS will have smiles on our faces

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you've got nothing to worry about.

As you're in Canada go to www.dsdoll.us direct.

Longevity, lifespan, reliablity - here's a three year old doll http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=53784 who must be one of the most travelled

and well exercised of dolls.

Worth repairing? You bet!

She had to keep her feet up whilst the silicone was curing.

I'll need to give her an operation to tighten up her left shoulder joint and her knee joints before long as standing is now something she has to be careful about

making sure that her legs are perfectly straight but by doing so I expect her to last at least 10 years.

In buying a DS

you are guaranteed to be hitting the jackpot.

Are DS trustworthy? Ha! Fancy thinking otherwise! DS love their dolls. They will do anything (nearly) to ensure that their dolls are happy. Happy dolls mean happy customers.

I'd go further in saying that DS are passionate about their dolls, about their quality that they pride themselves in allowing fewer blemishes than other manufacturers, about developing silicone to the best perfection possible, to colouration. They don't just make dolls for something to make and flogg'em cheap: they make dolls with professional pride in the ladies they create and the satisfaction they bring.

I'm not exaggerating.

I've bought and sold two TPE dolls. They had their attractions but I didn't want to keep them. In France I have one DS doll, and in England three, and don't intend to sell them . . . other than space or . . . those new squeezable butts. . . .

And I've had such confidence in DS to be able to buy my Dad a DS. He's 83 and whatever I bought him would have to be right first time. I considered a US brand which I love but the weight would have been too much for him, and I looked at another silicone brand that friends have investigated but is far outpaced by DS in quality and customer service. The challenge was more - my Dad lives on an island of just 2500 inhabitants. DS went to special trouble for me to get her there. DHL don't deliver there so they found that TNT did . . . and although she's marked as "delivered" http://www.tnt.com/webtracker/tracking.do#932364253:1 it's only to the shipping company for the final leg of the journey and she's not getting on the boat for another week . . . Not only that but because Dad's so isolated and in a small community in which buying ladies' clothing might raise eyebrows, DS were very helpful in putting a few extra bits and pieces into the box.

So the bottom line . . . is that you've got nothing to fear and the best doll of all to gain.

My passion is for good dolls and reliable manufacturers. If I knew another manufacturer to be so first class I'd be vouching for them likewise. I am ecumenical and not prejudiced. 4Woods have a good reputation, but are pricier. PIBs are very lovely and are sculpture of eternal art, but heavier, and their maker Patrick is a wonderful man. I have admiration also for Brash of Ruby13 but these are a different sort of doll. With threads such as http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=64111 and http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=64092 I know that I can extend my own personal experience to others about DS that with others we can have every confidence in recommendation without any risk of anyone being disappointed.

Best wishes

Harem

Shuuchi · Post by **Shuuchi** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:35 am

haremlover wrote:Worth repairing? You bet!

If you don`t mind me asking, what did you use to repair her? How long did it take?

Should I order a tight-jointed one or a soft-jointed one?

Post by **jiayi** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:46 am

I have a 2013 and a new 2015 DS 168. You have nothing to worry about. Sasha the 2013 is a third hand adoption and is in near new condition and can be seen in the latest photo challenge winners. She has the stiff joint option and can still stand perfectly. The 2015 is the new soft formula and feels very lifelike.
The customer service is excellent. Emails are answered within 24hrs, even over weekends. Total order time was 4 week, from first payment to delivery. Being the owner of two DS dolls speaks for itself.
Jiayi

Rhomaahl · Post by **Rhomaahl** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:49 am

I am an owner of multiple silicone dolls from multiple countries, including a recent purchase of a 160+ from DS Dolls.

I'm fully satisfied with the trustworthiness of DS Dolls as a merchant personally. Make sure you order from them directly and not a copycat scammer. I recieved what I ordered without any problems whatsoever. DS Dolls responds pretty quickly to any email queries you have.

They took pictures of my DS 160+ order before I made the final payment on the doll, and took pictures of the doll being packaged, and it arrived exactly as promised.

Most of the companies I have ordered a doll from generally took 2-3 months. The time to make and ship my DS Doll order was quite rapid: I made the down payment for beginning manufacture on July 13, and it was finished on July 24. Shipping took 6 days (weekend in the middle of that). I've heard elsewhere on this forum that DHL has managed to do this in as few as 3 days from China to Germany, I think?

Customs handling was done seamlessly when they shipped via DHL to my country (USA). I don't know about how that works with Canada, though.

Making the effort to prevent damage, and to repair damage, is worth it with silicone dolls. I've damaged most of my dolls with careless actions over the years, and generally silpoxy will fix up most minor tears. The expense and time of repairing a silicone doll is quite small compared to the investment made in purchasing that doll, particularly if you deal with damage sooner rather than later. Don't wait to fix a tear that has started.

My DS doll is too new for me to be sure about durability. I will have a decent opinion on this in a few months. This also applies to your warranty question.
I can comment that the reason I had to discard my oldest silicone doll (from a different manufacturer, probably 6 years old?) is because that skeleton was built out of electrical wire, that had frayed from repeated bending at many of the joints and cut their way out through the limb. Its possible I could have replaced the wire and repaired the cuts, but had newer and better dolls, anyways.
If you look at their pictures of the DS doll skeleton, its built like the Terminator. Definitely not going to have that wire problem.

The other choices I looked at when shopping for this doll were noticeably more expensive, double the price in some cases.

Perhaps the best thing I can say is that my next doll will probably be one of the other DS Doll models that I have not yet added to my collection. I'm that satisfied.

DarkOne · Post by **DarkOne** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:28 am

Still have not heard of anyone being disappointed with DS dolls. Even those damaged in shipping seem to have all been replaced for no charge to the owner, and owner got to keep the damaged body. You won't find many other manufactures doing that. AFAIK they have also replaced any dolls that had any kind of serious manufacturer defect as well, even when it only became apparent months after the doll was delivered. That is true customer service.

The only complaints I have heard about DS has been the minor splitting issue with the DS145 bodies at the top of the vagina. The DS158/160/168 do NOT suffer from it.

haremlover · Post by **haremlover** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:42 pm

Shuuchi wrote:
haremlover wrote:Worth repairing? You bet!
If you don`t mind me asking, what did you use to repair her? How long did it take?

Should I order a tight-jointed one or a soft-jointed one?

I have had to do a few simple repairs which I've documented on the Aira and Chloé threads. Simply a couple of splits - heels on Chloé, armpits on Thera and a split on the front of the ankle on Aira. Wipe with acetone, glue any visible foam together with cyanoacrylate, glue silicone together with Permatex flowable sililcone, not too much, and cover with clingfilm or sellotape putting the fracture in its naturally together position, for 24 hours.

No big deal. One can cope with nearly anything with a silicone doll - and anything serious DS really will do their best to help you.

Tight joints for posing. Loose joints for acrobatics and moving on your side in bed. Tight is not too tight and loosen eventually so with the tight joints you get the best of both worlds although some rave about loose joints.

Best wishes

Harem

Shuuchi · Post by **Shuuchi** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 10:30 pm

Thank you everyone for your informative responses.

I've recently decided to put in an order for a DS doll and wished to ask for some more advice from experienced owners before I fully commit to it:

The dsdoll site claimed that the finger bones are easy to break. Just how fragile are they? Is it worth buying?
Also, are the nails worth getting? Will the doll look weird without them?

DarkOne · Post by **DarkOne** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:14 am

Shuuchi wrote:Thank you everyone for your informative responses.

I've recently decided to put in an order for a DS doll and wished to ask for some more advice from experienced owners before I fully commit to it:

The dsdoll site claimed that the finger bones are easy to break. Just how fragile are they? Is it worth buying?
Also, are the nails worth getting? Will the doll look weird without them?

Finger wires, don't know why they call them bones. They won't break easily, but they can poke through the tip of the finger if you hit the dolls hand into something while moving her (especially if the fingers are straight out, Curve them and they will be MUCH more resistant to bumps and look more natural!) No bones = fingers just flex out of the way effortlessly.

Most likely to happen within the first few weeks of owning your first doll, After that you should learn how to move them without banging their fingers into things.

Easy enough to repair, just push the wire back into the finger and glue the split up. Not a huge deal.

Finger wires are great if your a photographer (Very important), OK if your into cuddling/posing her around the house (Could live without), Damn near useless during sex and distracting as you'll be worrying about not jamming her fingers into things by accident, and kinda annoying when moving her around as you have to keep her hands infront of her body and sorta tucked up against her chest or belly as you move her. (but then you likely have to do that to some extent without finger wires too, you don't want to mash the arm/wrist into the wall! even without finger wires it will do damage)

One plus however to finger wires + finger nails for sex, Is she can actually scratch you ever so softly during sex. Iv had my doll do that once or twice by accident and it was amazing really.

Note: being prone to damage (aka: finger pokes) true of all dolls with finger wires. Some doll brands have endcaps or twisted wire loops at the end to help reduce finger pokes greatly, Others have different silicone blends for the hands as an option, But compared to other dolls DS dolls are regarded as pretty good about finger pokes from what I have read from their owners.

haremlover · Post by **haremlover** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:44 am

Photographically wires and nails are WONDERFUL

For sex, forget about them.

My girls have not been damaged yet.

Chloé has no bones no nails. You can see her photos on her thread. She does remarkably well. But if one is critical her hands don't have refinement

Best wishes

Harem

Shuuchi · Post by **Shuuchi** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:48 am

What sized clothing/stockings/shoes/lingerie should I be looking for the 145 cm body?
North american women are rather...well endowed, finding smaller clothes is going to be tedious.
I've checked out the teens sections in a few online stores and I think they should fit...in theory. (the M size for kids in Canada is roughly around the doll's sizes)

Are there any recommended sites for this sort of thing?