I’m not a collector, but I do follow several nurseries on Reborns because I really like the artists’ work. Lately, I’ve noticed several artists that will change the price on a baby after it sells, to reflect it went for a higher price. It’s way too easy to do - just go in and edit your price and make it visible.
I think maybe they are wanting all of their sold babies to reflect what their current babies may be going for, but I feel this is being really deceptive about your nursery history. Very few, if any, people come out of the gate selling $1K+ babies. There’s a feature to not show the sold price, so if you are not wanting customers to know that your babies a year ago sold for half the price they are going for now, just don’t show them. ???
I have done it myself. If a customer gives me a deposit, my price gets changed to the balance. They pay and I change the price back to what it was. Reason being that I do not want other people thinking that they can get a doll from me that cheap. I want my prices shown in general for the same reason.
Dolls from years ago, I hid the prices after being bombarded with messages from people wanting dolls at prices which are less than half what they are now.
I definitely think that circumstance warrants editing prices. I think it’s when folks suddenly change all their sold babies from say, $500 to $1400, to make it look like their babies have only ever sold for thousands, is misleading. It bugs me when these same people talk about how dishonest customers are. There’s an easy fix to the situation, in that you only have to show current for sale prices.
I’m pretty sure Ive seen that. Not sure why they would do that though. Most people can see the difference between a $500 and $1,400 doll, so seeing inflated prices probably wouldn’t get them too far.
I’m so confused, if I have a buyer put down a deposit and then pay it off I don’t get the credit on Reborns. Not understanding how that works, esp with payments. The secret URL shows the entire amount.
I think if you list the tracking number in the order on Reborns, that you will get verified/credited for the order. I handle payments through PayPal, including the deposit. I then just manually change the status to reserved in Reborns. I don’t change the price in the listing to reflect any amount different than the entire amount. Basically, the reserved sign is just to make sure no one else buys the baby while the customer finishes out the plan. When the person pays the entire balance, I change the status to adopted, and then add the tracking number to the order. I really don’t use the secret URL for the customer, since, for me, it’s just easier to keep everything straight in Paypal. I talk with the customer and we decide if they’d rather me bill them each payment, or if they would like a Paypal invoice that allows them specifically to make payments when it works best for them.
I hope that makes sense. I think Dave doesn’t have Reborns handle payment plans because everyone does them so differently.
That aspect ticks me off! I did have a recent customer to change the price to the current balance so I would get credit for the sale, but if Dave won’t allow watermarks, he kinda owes it to us that we don’t have to fool the system.
Honestly I don’t bother with it too much anymore. I used to care about verified orders and would do all of this to make sure it showed up. Most of the time now I just mark reserved, make arrangements privately with the buyer, then mark it sold manually.