Weekly summary 13/2019

Hi,

this is a summary of what was going in the doll world in the 13th week of 2019, as far as we at Dollstudio & DS Doll Europe were concerned.

1) New arrivals.

This week, there were three new heads:

• ›Lisa‹ head by Irontech Doll,
• ›Dora‹ head by Irontech Doll, and
• ›Gina‹ head by YL Doll (Jinsan no. 304).

So Jinsan just passed the 300 heads mark. All three new heads are made of TPE.

Also, there was one new body style, added from the backlog:

• Jarliet JA-148 body style with ›Pearl‹ head

As always, you can follow the latest updates in our Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/DollStudioEU

Also, we have the New products listing on all three Dollstudio websites. It is sorted in reverse chronological order, so the latest additions to our portfolio are on top of the listing:

• Dollstudio US - http://us.dollstudio.org/new-products
• Dollstudio EU - http://eu.dollstudio.org/new-products
• Dollstudio DE - http://de.dollstudio.org/new-products

On Dollstudio EU, there is also the New arrivals timeline http://eu.dollstudio.org/timeline with a slightly different display style.

2) Latest blog posts.

Our daily blog posts feature mostly new photo sets, showcasing dolls and heads in various configurations.

Among some other things, we have posted these new picture series during the past week:

• 31.03.: YL Doll YL-140 body style and ›Gina‹ head (Jinsan no. 304)
• 30.03.: Piper Fantasy PI-150/B aka ›Akira‹ by Piper Doll
• 29.03.: Irontech Doll IT-163/G body style and ›Lisa‹ head
• 28.03.: YL Doll YL-158/L body style and ›Tala‹ head (Jinsan no. 220)
• 27.03.: SY Doll SY-160 body style and head no. 114 (Shengyi no. 114) - another beautiful photo set by Stacy Leigh!
• 26.03.: Irontech IT-170 body style and ›Yael‹ head
• 25.03.: YL Doll YL-148/D body style and ›Bella‹ head (Jinsan no. 286)
• 24.03.: Irontech Doll IT-158 body style and ›Miki‹ head

These blog posts are mirrored on the Latest blog posts section all three Dollstudio websites. It is sorted in reverse chronological order, newest posts on top:

• Dollstudio US - http://us.dollstudio.org/blog
• Dollstudio EU - http://eu.dollstudio.org/blog
• Dollstudio DE - http://de.dollstudio.org/blog

(EU and US sites in English, DE site in German)

Also, we have started to post photos with 360° views of all current YL Doll body styles:

• YL Doll YL-170/E body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-168/B body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-165/E body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-160 body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-158/L body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-157 body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-155/D body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-148/D body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-148 body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-146/G body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-140 body style - 360° view
• YL Doll YL-135 body style - 360° view

3) Factory photos and shipped dolls.

This week, we had three completed dolls:

• This Doll House 168 EVO-170/E with ›Cat‹ head travels to Texas
• This SY Doll SY-167 'big breasts' with head no. 98 travels to Germany
• This WM Doll WM-158/G with no. 223 head travels to Nevada

As usual, confirmation pics are in our Twitter feed and on the respective product pages.

4) Other updates.

a) Indigo's CWA. I am currently updating the TPE doll product pages for Indigo's cold-welding diffusion adhesive (CWA), so you can add it easily as an extra to any doll order.

So far I have worked through most Doll Forever, Piper Doll, Doll House 168, and YL Doll product pages. The other brands will follow step by step.

b) New payment methods. Starting in April, we will add new payment methods to complement the three existing ones - Paypal, wire bank transfer and SEPA bank transfer.

The latter one has the advantage to be fast, secure and to have no or at least very low banking fees - but only as long as you are within the Euro zone. Several banks in EU countries without Euro currency do not play along nicely with the SEPA regulations, especially in Eastern Europe and the UK. So for starters we added a native bank account for UK bank transfers in GBP to better accomodate to the requirements of customers on the Brexit island. A native UK bank account has the advantage to be relatively fast and to cost no or very low transaction fees, as long as you have a UK bank account.

The idea behind this is to reduce the dependency on Paypal and their substantial transaction fees. On average, Paypal charges something around 5% fees, in some cases even 5,79%. That creates an overhead of about €120 for a €2,000 sale. Our bank currently supports 40 currencies, so we will extend the range of native bank transfers step by step.

Sandro