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Changes to DS Doll Europe

Dollstudio focuses on life-like dolls made of silicone and TPE, with products spanning from life-sized love dolls and manikins over miniature companions to 1/6 scale miniatures. Based in Europe, Dollstudio is an authorized vendor for respected manufacturers like Doll Sweet, Ruby13, Maidlee Doll, Dream Doll Creation, OR Doll, WM Dolls, YL Doll, JM Doll, Sanhui, Hitdoll, Onedoll, and Lovely Doll. By default, we're shipping from Germany with all customs and taxes cleared.
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Changes to DS Doll Europe

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Hi,

in the past weeks, we implemented a couple of changes on DS Doll Europe.

1) EU shipping flat rate available.

The most relevant news is that we adapted the EU shipping flat rate. As before, import fees to all EU destinations are included; but the extra charges for freight forwarding are now gone. As before, all EU deliveries remain domestic; the packages are just delivered through an EU warehouse.

The displayed price is the final price; there will be no additional charges for shipping or customs!

2) Prices down!

That means that prices for most EU customers went down quite significantly.

Just the saved freight forwarding step results in cost savings of EUR 80-130 per doll.

3) Safety.

We took extra precautions to make sure that TNT does not touch any of our shipments anymore.

All EU shipments will be delivered with UPS.

4) Better transalation.

Implementing the EU shipping flat rate required to split the main domains, similar to Dollstudio EU, Dollstudio DE, and Dollstudio US.

Technically, we have now two independent websites:
Before, dsdolleurope.com was a translated website with Drupal's i18n and l10n mechanisms; most parts were translated, but we were also faced with quite a number of areas that just could not be translated reasonably. The resulting mix of German and English elements is now gone; http://en.dsdolleurope.com/ is a native English site (well, there's still some cruft to clean up; that should be done in a couple of days).

5) Faster.

A nice side effect of removing i18n and l10n is that http://en.dsdolleurope.com/ runs now a lot faster, especially for logged-in users.

Cleaning up and updating http://en.dsdolleurope.com/ is still ongoing, but most parts already work just fine.

And by the way, the DS Doll Europe websites are responsive, meaning that they can be easily used with a mobile.

Next step.

The next step will be a dedicated Doll Sweet US website for customers in North America and abroad. This site will display prices in USD currency and target the specifics of destinations outside the EU.

However, you can already order Doll Sweet dolls from us through Dollstudio US.

As always, comments and suggestions are welcome!

Sandro
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