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Feb. 12th, 2022 09:22 amWho would like to join me in a little schadenfreude? Anyone?
So you might recall that last Christmas, AG did their limited edition Winter Princess dolls. The Sonali mold and classic mold, each supposed to have streaks in their hair but the Sonali mold didn't really translate and the classic had pale pink in with the blonde and was cuter than any classic mold has a right to be, ok. Anyway, they retailed for $250 (still do, but we're getting to that) and resellers decided that since Sugar Plum fairy sold out and then sold for CRAZY amounts to the degree that the JLY lookalike also sold out after so many people went the DYI route, they tried to get ahead of the game. Only unlike Sugar Plum, no one lost their shit over the princesses. Maybe because there were two, maybe because every reseller under the goddamn sun made it known they were buying a gazillion so that when the dolls did sell out, most people just went "eh, not paying above retail price for that."
Anyway, rather than accept the fact that they lost in this gamble, the resellers flooded the secondary market, desperate to make the cash back. No one bit. I cackled each and every time I saw one of these posts, btw. In the darkness that was my Ozma-less December, watching greedy people fuck themselves over amused me to no end.
Once they realized they couldn't recoup their losses right away, they began returning them to AG in droves. Which is funny because some gave up right away to the point that every couple of days, mixed in with the "please pay me $400 for this doll I definitely didn't spend that much on because there were sales and rewards obviously involved" posts, you'd see a head's up that any given store had a few in stock. Which further tanked the resellers' hopes of making any damn money.
They returned so damn many that AG currently have the Winter Princesses back in stock on the site along with a promo that gets you $20 in rewards to use later. Enough to fucking have a sale online. That's how many people fucked themselves over... and are now, in turn, kinda fucking the company over.
Sooooooo, if one assumes that AG's already committed to a LE doll for '22, bets on whether they sell out for real and thus the cycle begins anew?
Seriously though, those posts were daily.
Anyway, I noticed the little ginger cat JLY (Truly me? Fuck, I cannot remember the name of this line) was on sale and showing as low stock. So I bought one and the WW Christmas dress from last year to make sure I used my rewards that expire this month.
So you might recall that last Christmas, AG did their limited edition Winter Princess dolls. The Sonali mold and classic mold, each supposed to have streaks in their hair but the Sonali mold didn't really translate and the classic had pale pink in with the blonde and was cuter than any classic mold has a right to be, ok. Anyway, they retailed for $250 (still do, but we're getting to that) and resellers decided that since Sugar Plum fairy sold out and then sold for CRAZY amounts to the degree that the JLY lookalike also sold out after so many people went the DYI route, they tried to get ahead of the game. Only unlike Sugar Plum, no one lost their shit over the princesses. Maybe because there were two, maybe because every reseller under the goddamn sun made it known they were buying a gazillion so that when the dolls did sell out, most people just went "eh, not paying above retail price for that."
Anyway, rather than accept the fact that they lost in this gamble, the resellers flooded the secondary market, desperate to make the cash back. No one bit. I cackled each and every time I saw one of these posts, btw. In the darkness that was my Ozma-less December, watching greedy people fuck themselves over amused me to no end.
Once they realized they couldn't recoup their losses right away, they began returning them to AG in droves. Which is funny because some gave up right away to the point that every couple of days, mixed in with the "please pay me $400 for this doll I definitely didn't spend that much on because there were sales and rewards obviously involved" posts, you'd see a head's up that any given store had a few in stock. Which further tanked the resellers' hopes of making any damn money.
They returned so damn many that AG currently have the Winter Princesses back in stock on the site along with a promo that gets you $20 in rewards to use later. Enough to fucking have a sale online. That's how many people fucked themselves over... and are now, in turn, kinda fucking the company over.
Sooooooo, if one assumes that AG's already committed to a LE doll for '22, bets on whether they sell out for real and thus the cycle begins anew?
Seriously though, those posts were daily.
Anyway, I noticed the little ginger cat JLY (Truly me? Fuck, I cannot remember the name of this line) was on sale and showing as low stock. So I bought one and the WW Christmas dress from last year to make sure I used my rewards that expire this month.