in the past months, several doll makers made major changes to their portfolio, to the available customization options, to naming pricing and the like. In an attempt to keep track, I will make posts about these updates and changes, broken down by brand. I'll start with Jiusheng.
1) Price decrease.
From Jiusheng's announcement:
The new prices will take effect on May 1, 2024."[…] we take every effort to expand the production capacity of our factory, to lower the unit cost of each doll. Moreover, we changed the freight forwarder and broke down the freight rates for different destinations so as to quote you a more competitive price. More importantly, we hope such a price decrease will help [to] gain more customers."
However, at least for the destinations US and EU, freight costs are currently increasing. It is to be hoped that such price increases will not eat up Jiusheng price decreases.
2) Changes to customization options.
Als taking effect on May 1, 2024, there will be the following changes:
- No hollow breasts option.
- No S body painting. The TPE body is available with standard body painting or realistic body painting (originally called S+ body makeup).
- No tan line body makeup.
- No hair implants of real human hair.
- Silicone head base is not available.
- No hymen.
- Touch points of the moaning option change to 3 positions.
3) Replacement of 158/E body with new 158/D body.
Jiusheng discontinued the 158/E silicone body which was introduced in August 2022.
This is the 'old' body (which technically was a D cup):
This body style is being replaced with a new 158/D body which looks like so:
According to specs, the new body is 7 kg heavier than the discontinued one, and the new D cup variant is more busty than the old E cup variant. This is a bit confusing; maybe the old specs were off.
Sandro