Mattel vs MATTEL quality issues

[lj01]

Okay, here a Mattel vs. Mattel quality issue.
Nellie and Samantha's Spring party dresses.

I think they did a rather nice job with Nellie's. Except with the hairbow. It's not historically accurate-- but it's adorable. I'll use it for my AGT's. Here's the issue-- The style of Sam's dress is accurate, (and cute) but I find it very poor quality. The material is just horrible. It is supposed to be tone on tone. I assume white on white.
It looks more like white with off green. My dress came extremely wrinkled too. When I look at the quality of this dress as opposed to.. hmmm... the talent show dress? I am just appauled.
It's not like they consistently try to put out poor quality items. Another example- Sam's Spring dress vs. Licorice's best friend outfit, both of which were released for the early Spring season. I know there was a $4 dollar price difference in these items, but I would pay $4 more for a better dress. Two more examples- the meet outfit sneakers which I thought were awful quality, (the style was cute, but the material was again poor) and the basketball uniform shoes which are great. Does Mattel think that if they sneak an occasional poor quality item in on us we are not going to catch it? I don't understand it... I'm really not trying to be irrate. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
Lisa [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

<font color="#051E50"><font size="1">[ January 21, 2005 10:57 PM: Message edited by: LaceyJane ]</font></font>

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ January 21, 2005 10:58 PM: Message edited by: LaceyJane ]</font>

[courtneysunshine]

Lisa, when did you purchase your outfits? I was just curious to see whether it makes a difference. We purchased both Sam & Nellie's dresses on the 27th when they first showed up and both are of excellent quality. In fact, Samantha's is my favorite over the two. Ours is beautiful and very well made. The fabric is thick and the material which make up the crosses feels almost quilted. If I look closely at the material, it has very light green stripes about an eighth of an inch wide running vertically through it which give it the off-white/green color. The flowers are spaced well, not too much or too little. Ours wasn't wrinkled when we received it either. Could they have messed up and maybe sent one to you that was a return? We have the Talent Show dress as well and our spring dress is of the same excellent quality as our Talent Shoe dress. I was wondering about the time of purchase because maybe they accidentally sent one that was defective in order to get it out quickly?

Kim

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ January 21, 2005 11:17 PM: Message edited by: courtneysunshine ]</font>

[lj01]

Maybe that's why it was so wrinkled..It had horrible wrinkles under the arms so it may have been a return.
Lisa [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[auri]

I ordered the spring dresses as soon as they became available and I'm very pleased with both. They both arrived in perfect condition, no wrinkles or any other problems, and I was actually pleasantly surprised by them after being disappointed with Sam's bridesmaid dress.