So this has me concerned

From Mint on Card's website:
"September 4th '13: 

Further explanation for the long pre-order waits. Several BJD companies have told us that they are having trouble filling open positions within their companies. Wages in China have increased a lot for the last couple of years, this year in particular. What is happening there is familiar to what has happened in other countries; the economy improves, wages increase, and people leave labor intensive jobs for less labor intensive job, or a desk job. Asleep Eidolon, Xaga Doll, LoongSoul Doll, and DikaDoll are all having trouble finding workers.
No one wants to sand dolls for a living.
It's hard tedious work, and usually in uncomfortable conditions. AE has raised the pay for sanding jobs 3 times in the last 8 months, but things have still not improved for them. AE is more popular then ever. Orders have been large, that is usually good news for a company, but it is daunting when you don't have enough workers to get the orders done in a timely fashion. These companies are stuck with only a few choices:

• Increase wages to a point that their dolls become out of reach for many people, (price wise).
• Move their entire company to a different region that has more workers who are willing to take on sanding jobs.
• Stop offering sanding altogether.
• Charge for sanding.

Any of these decisions could negatively impact their business. Customers might stop buying if prices get too high. If the company moves it will cost them money, loss of orders during the move, and with time they will likely find themselves in the same situation again that they are in now. If they stop offering sanding then customers might choose to go with a BJD brand that does offer it. If they charge for sanding, that adds to the cost of the doll and make it look less appealing price wise, (people never like having something that was once free 'taken away' from them). Traditionally Chinese BJD's always come sanded, so that is why not sanding them does not really feel like an option to most of these brands.
As of right now we do not know what these companies will ultimately choose to do, but your opinion could help them decide. They can easily get the opinions of the domestic Chinese market, but they need our, (your), help to know what the rest of the BJD hobbyists think. Please join our discussion on facebook with your opinions. Thank you. :)"