CrazyCajun wrote:Point taken, but if you are one of the people that end up with a doll from a major manufacturer and it develops what that manufacturer determines as an un-repairable problem due to poor engineering in a short time and are left with no recourse and no assistance from that manufacturer, then in the end the difference between them and a scammer is not that great!
The really horrible part is that this manufacturer would benefit enormously by simply admitting the flaw, re-design it and offer a replacement with an updated doll at a reduced price. The effort and cost of re-designing this Spiral pipe with a replaceable component is negligible.
The difference is that doll at least lasted 6 months and in theory the neck could have been repaired and the rest of the doll would have been usable.
The ebay doll would have lasted days and no amount of repair would have fixed it., and the seller tried to get the buyer to close the dispute early and that would have left him with $0 refund and a broken doll. He may have never received a 2nd doll if he asked for the 2nd doll it might have just been a delay tactic.
The only reason the buyer got his money back was because he listened to us and didn't fall for the scammers tactics. THAT is why that doll was a scam even though the buyer ended up with 90% of his money back.
PS: yes I do also consider the dolls built with bendable wire elements (even from major manufactures) in the neck and wrists to be a bit of a 'scam' myself as these are dolls designed to fail from day 1, and that is just unacceptable for a doll costing $1000~3000.
They are still MILES ahead in build quality from the true 'scam' dolls however.
You don't see $10 kids toys with bending wire skeletons that fail in use (as a kid would likely manage to wear out such a skeleton in days..), why should we see $1000 adult toys with bending wire skeletons?
Gooseneck pipe is a little better then just plain bending wire, but not by much.
Every day people remind me why I like dolls better.