#jpopdolls

[struungout]

I’ve been meaning to write up a shareable post for some time now regarding the fiasco with Layla Szczepaniec and her company JpopDolls. I’ve been putting it off for months now because the whole situation just makes me so unbelievably angry that it is hard to calmly and succinctly explain all the bullshit Layla has put not only myself through, but also dozens of other customers and doll artists through.

I’m writing up this post because I do not want anyone else to be in the same position as I am now where they’re out of luck getting back their money and have nothing to show for it other than a few Facebook messages and emails full of nothing but excuses and lies. If this post prevents even one person from doing business with JpopDolls, I’ll consider that a win. If it causes Layla to shut down the business for good, I certainly wouldn’t shed any tears over it.

The short of it is that I preordered an Asella Raspberry doll in coffee skin back in October 2020. I never received the doll nor have I received a refund. Layla has not posted to the JpopDolls Facebook page (the only active source of information) since June 2022. Comments are also limited on the FB page (or at least I know that I am personally blocked from making comments on it). I am not the only one in this position either. There are people that preordered dolls from early 2020 that never received them, and there’s people that purchased in stock goods that either never received them, or it took months to receive them.

The long story is that back in February of 2022, Asella herself posted on her Facebook page that she had recently been in contact with Fdoll and Island Doll (2 companies that JpopDolls had used in the past for casting Asella’s dolls) since she was planning to run some preorders herself, and found out that neither of them had received orders from JpopDolls in the last 1-2 years, despite the fact that Layla had been regularly running preorders since 2020. Prior to this news, I’d spent a little over a year emailing and messaging Layla asking for when dolls would be arriving, and always given something along the lines of “soon”, and once given an actual month for when the dolls should get delivered to her.

When contacted about this news, Layla stated that Asella was misinformed and that the dolls were delayed due to the 2020 COVID shutdown and casting problems. She then stated that the dolls would be delivered by spring, and if they weren’t, customers would be refunded. Spring came and went and no dolls materialized and no refunds were sent.

In summer of 2022, a public Facebook group was created called People and Businesses who lost money to JPOP dolls. It currently has 79 members. It was a group that aimed to try and organize all of the JpopDolls customers that had been having issues with the company. Together, dozens of us filed formal complaints to the Washington state Attorney General’s Consumer Resource Center, as well as the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Unfortunately, nothing came of these complaints. I believe some individuals also filed police reports and knew of at least one person that was thinking of trying to go to small claims court since they lived in the same state as Layla. I haven’t heard any updates regarding that though.

From what I read in the group, JpopDolls has been ripping off artists that worked with them for years, at least since 2017 (when Grace was still alive, so this isn’t a new problem with a new owner). This has led those artists to stop working with them in the past. A post from October 2022 also stated that they received an email from JpopDolls about a sale on doll clothing and accessories as well as in-stock dolls, so Layla is clearly still actively trying to do business and the website is still up and running. I have not personally heard anything from her since emailing her in March.

I have personally come to accept that I will not be getting my money back, and even if I did receive the doll by some act of God, I wouldn’t want it anyway. The entire situation soured me on a doll that was my grail for a majority of my time involved with this hobby. At this point all I want is to make sure that nobody else does business with JpopDolls (or Layla Szczepaniec) ever again.

Do not buy anything that’s in stock or on preorder. Do not give your hard-earned money to someone that is more than happy to take it and then never send you what you paid for. If you have an order with JpopDolls that is still within the timeframe your bank or PayPal give to file a claim, get your money back now.

Please do share this information with your fellow doll collectors, new and old alike. I don’t want anyone else put through this nonsense.

You can find my old posts about this issue on my Instagram story highlights under “jpopdolls” as well as my feed here and here.

#ball jointed doll #bjd #bjd doll #jpopdolls #legit bjd #personal bloggity

[zenkoisworld]

Самые мои непослушные и с характером)) #бждкукла #бжд #bjddoll #bjdドール #bjdinsta #bjdinstagram #bjd #人形 #bjddoll #bjdドール #bjdinstagram #bjd #бждфото #jpopdolls #nobledolls #nobleradicelle #dollzone #dollzonebjd #dollzonecarter #dollzonecarteryosd https://www.instagram.com/p/CcrArY0DIYV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#бждкукла #бжд #bjddoll #bjdドール #bjdinsta #bjdinstagram #bjd #人形 #бждфото #jpopdolls #nobledolls #nobleradicelle #dollzone #dollzonebjd #dollzonecarter #dollzonecarteryosd

[ira-scargeear]

It's been several years since last batches of my Forest Dwellers animals were released at JPopDolls. I'm proud to introduce my new doll - Khitrula Fox. Raccoon Smuzhka in ginger skintone will keep him company. The preorder opening will open at JPopDolls in about a week! http://www.jpopdolls.net http://wgrass.org

#bjd #bjdraccoon #bjdfox #bjdanthro #jpopdolls #whispering grass #khitrula #smuzhka

[the-bjd-community-confess]

I'm wondering how Jpopdolls is still in business while the company has been apparently dissolved in 2019... And several artists waiting for payment for years

~Anonymous

#BJD #ABJD #BJD Confessions #TrueBJDConfessionz

[tirsden]

Playing with wigs, Nirian the android (left) and Shane (right) plus her doll Nyu (pink hair). Nirian’s wigs are actually all three non-blonde ones (ignoring Nyu’s), and Shane’s is the blonde one from her fullset.

Nirian is a Dollzone Hid head on a Souldoll Souloid body with faceup by me, and Shane is a DZ Elsa fullset on a still-needs-to-be-gender-neutral’d DZ boy body (she’s a girl, but she’s also a kid, so them MSD girl bewbs are a no). Nyu is a DZ Nyu in DZ Maca’s fullset wig/outfit. Nirian’s wigs came from Usagihime (strawberries & cream),  Angell-Studio (blue/purple), and Jpopdolls (blue-green crimpy). And if I got all that right, I’ll be surprised.

#tirsdenoriginals #dollzone #souldoll #bjd #asian ball jointed doll #abjd #dollzone elsa #dollzone hid #souldoll souloid #souloid #dollzone nyu #doll #dolls #ball jointed doll

[bjd-confessions]

I wish recasters would get the more popular Kaye Wiggs dolls. All they have is ugly Cinnamon. I would buy from Kaye, but the prices and wait times are ridiculous. $600 for a 13" doll that I have to wait 8+ months to see? Hell no. Half the time, I don't think companies realize that the reason recasts are so popular is because they have such shit business practices. Also, the lady that runs the Jpopdolls site is a total psycho.

~Anonymous

#BJD #ABJD #TrueBJDConfessions #TrueBJDRecasts

[unicorndustbjd]

Methinks it's time to get this handsome boy his own wig. I know what I want (long, black, simple) but I'm tired of all my options. I want something a little fancier than jpopdolls, I'm too impatient to wait for anything outside the US, and everything I've ever ordered off EBay never looks like the photo. Blah.

#bjd wig #balljointedolls #mybjd #dolls #dimdoll #legitbjd #bjd

[mortifox]

Depths Dolls Pre-Order!

AHHHHH!!!

https://www.jpopdolls.net/store/Human-Deilf-Light-Tan-with-FREE-MAKE-UP-by-Depths-Dolls.html

I did it! I pre-ordered Depths Doll Deilf Human in light tan with makeup :) I’m so very in love with Depths Dolls! Only 35 days left to pre-order one of these lovely dolls at Jpopdolls. 

#Depths Dolls #Deilf Human #BJD #Pre-order #Mortifox

[cenricthecerberus]

The curse of the public holiday may have just struck again. The wigs I ordered from Jpopdolls are in Australia as of yesterday, but it’s probably going to be trapped over the weekend because there’s a public holiday tomorrow

#personal #three heads make a lot of noise

[zenkoisworld]

Велико ей платьице, но я хотела посмотреть как на ней такая модель смотрится и такой длины. Хдд #бждкукла #бжд #bjddoll #bjdドール #bjdinsta #bjdinstagram #bjd #人形 #bjddoll #bjdドール #bjdinstagram #bjd #бждфото #jpopdolls #nobeldoll https://www.instagram.com/jenifa_doll/p/CX3e-JKIiMo/?utm_medium=tumblr

#бждкукла #бжд #bjddoll #bjdドール #bjdinsta #bjdinstagram #bjd #人形 #бждфото #jpopdolls #nobeldoll

[ira-scargeear]

Preorder period for Khitrula Fox and Raccoon Smuzhka is officially opened! http://www.jpopdolls.net/store/Whispering-Grass/ The price for each animal is $285. It comes nude, with faceup and body blushing, and with random 10 mm glass eyes. Preorder ends on October 20th.

#bjd #bjdanthro #fox #raccoon #whispering grass #jpopdolls #preorder #khitrulafox #smuzhka raccoon

[kyrianee]

I am crazy in love in my doll #Laryssa from #kayewiggs #bjd She is ooak and very beautiful

#Laryssa #kaye wiggs #jpopdolls #msd #bjd

[tarathaoma]

Box oppening for Woodoll Human Pandora Please ignore the crazy lighting. middle of the night shots, all of them.

She's is one of the grails i finally acquired that i been dreaming of getting. She is also my first doll that I paid full out for. I missed the only preorder there ever was for this particular doll because I couldn’t do a full pay out and had regret immensely. I was lucky that JpopDolls had 2 in stock and i caved. This particular artist relatively unknown and I haven’t even seen any one that had this sculpt at all. its a pretty big risk for me and I’m happy to have her. This s girl is serious endowed in the butt department. Also super posable. and I have a thing for asian faced sculpts and hippy bodies so thats a two for one combo perfect for me. Pros.

1.resin is amazing quality

2. SUPER POSABLE. the only doll that I have that do the splits. 

3. faceplate is flush to the head cap   cons

1. I originally wanted a no face up one but given that this sculpt is not going to be casted again i gotta deal with it til I get the chance to repaint her. 

2.one of her hands I like to call the praymatis hand . I have no problem with the other hand but this one hand something about the pose bugs me.

3. her feet need to be sueded. actually failed the one foot pose. But that might because she super hippy.

I don’t know if this is on jpopdolls or the artist, but the eyes they gave me don’t even fit, like gaps and everything. its quite bad. she need low domes. Makos or Enchanteds for sure.

Note: this doll is quite heavy even more so to my LC Loonette. She is the doll that got me to learn to draft better. It takes a lot of love and bond to get me to start a new craft that I’m not comfortable with.

Check out the artist on face book! Also there are two more posts about her posability!

#bjd #artist bjd #Woodoll #Human Pandora #jpopdolls #doll #box openning #mine

[confessionsofthebjdkind]

I find most of the dolls on Jpopdolls ugly.

#bjd #bjd confessions #jpopdolls #ugly

[truebjdconfessions]

EU-ropean BJD maker that sell their dolls over JPOPdolls really piss me off.

Sorry, but there’s just no way I’m going to order a doll from the US, pay high shipping costs as well as tax and duties on top of that for a product I should be able to get without custom duties and any hassle and for a way lesser shipping price from Europe. Also: I can’t stand the resin JPOP casts their dolls with. I guess it’s environmental or something, but it’s too transparent and too smooth, the joints often have like no grip at all.

~Anonymous

#bjd #abjd #bjd confessions #jpopdolls #buyer woes