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This is particularly important. Buying dolls cheap on some website where the supply chain is not authenticated and discriminating against such dolls might appear to be a matter of commercial protectionism, but it works both ways to everyone's benefit for TDF to adopt such a policy.
It's not just a matter of protection of legal rights and intellectual property, for which some who enjoy the challenge of the cheap off the back of a lorry might not have full regard, but more.
In the first case, we're seeing a lot of new developments in the doll world coming forward and this is very much to the benefit of doll enthusiasts. These developments are in materials, soft breasts for TPE, new silicone dolls and silicone materials, and skeletons, as well as superior finishing of silicone dolls. There has to be reward for investment and without which the path to improvement doesn't happen. Some manufacturers are being adventurous and it's not easy to be getting it right first time. As a result early new models might have to be replaced at the manufacturers' costs - this costs money which has to be funded. If the profitability of the well run businesses is being ebbed away by fakes stealing the market, then the profit base from which to fund customer service isn't there.
One or two companies have been very parsimonious in replacing defective dolls. Replacing such dolls costs, and TDF can only armtwist such companies in the Dispute Resolution Process if there is reason for better run businesses to value TDF as the trade-organisation working in everyone's interests.
And finally, people buying fakes don't always know what a decent doll should be like. As a result, the reputation of a poor experience can blemish the reputation of dolls on a wider basis. Likewise, buying a fake might be a total waste of money. Sometimes people have good experiences as one thread on TDF demonstrates, but in the light of the above, they are still at the cost of the wider interests of the doll community in terms of product development, quality control and customer service of the good businesses that the fakes rob from. If the fake is a waste of money, then it's a loss and Daisy Ashford's quote https://www.nypl.org/blog/2009/05/26/young-visiters
might not be seen to be an opinion in the height of maturity.half a loaf is better than no bread
Another thread might well be the place for anyone to debate the policy rather than here, but for the reasons above I wouldn't expect TDF management to be particularly sympathetic to anyone expressing a less than balanced view.
Best wishes
Harem