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Well... I guess I wouldn't attempt it either. Especially for a "perspective" buyer. I "might" attempt it for a winning bidder but I would ask "what purpose would be served by doing this?" Then, so if they don't like it when the get it, I would have them sign a paper before I sent the doll or did anything to it, that stated that they are asking me to do this and they are doing so at their own risk. This way you have leverage with evilbay just in case. KWIM?

But, in all honesty, not only would I probably not do it, I wouldn't elaborate to the buyer the details of why I wouldn't, I would just say it is not something that I choose to do and leave it at that. Depending on the person, if I say "...because it might compromise the integrity of certain vinyls, or because I might slip, or the paint might become damaged" then it tends to make me unknowledgeable or unsure of my own work. See where I'm coming from on that one? I don't want to give the customer/potential customer any information like that in case they maybe have buyers remorse and want their money back. Then they can go to evilbay and say look here what they wrote...

So, I didn't mean to put this all in here but it just all spilled out lol
Just some scenarios, food for thought. Mostly what the customer wants to hear is direct... do you or don't you, and the why only has to be because I choose not to. Besides it is a lot of extra work taking apart, fixing it, putting in the felt, re-assembling. I mean it's ultimately up to the artist but I wouldn't. Especially for the price that most reborns are going for nowadays.

I hope I didn't make this too confusing for you all. :o

I wouldn't do that either!! I would be scared as well.... even if you didn't scratch the paint... they might change their mind after the fact and then there is really no fix to it either.. So I would explain it genlty too... Hope I helped too!!!

I don't open any noses, I prefere to shade them. Then after the fact, here in Australia, you get Silverfish, a little bug that loves to eat woolen garments and felt. So for this reason I don't open any noses even in Porcelain Dolls. I think shading is just as nice, I do open the mouths of some of the porcelain as they have teeth and this is how the sculptor has designed them but then they don't have felt or filling behind them. SO