Never Liked It Anyway
By Suzanne Choney
Wow, never mind the glitzy baubles that are available on a new website, Never Liked It Anyway. The stories that come with them are just as gripping (and they're free).
The site is for the spurned and broken-hearted who are not so devastated that they can't see their way to making a buck (or in some cases, much, much more) from their former lovers' gifts, with "real-world" prices given alongside "break-up" prices. But the best part is that sellers can vent their feelings about their exes in describing why the items are for sale.
Never Liked It Anyway
Here you can find a 1.74 carat "princess cut solitaire engagement ring," listed as having a "real world price" of $10,250, but offered for a "break-up price" of $6,800. Writes the seller:
Absolutely loved wearing this ring during my engagement. Unfortunately my ex-fiance and I never made it down the aisle. Months before the big day we purchased a new vehicle in my name for my soon to be husband, his vehicle, his payment. Needless to say when we broke things off, he decided to quit his job and give me the vehicle instead of getting it put in his name, leaving me with the payment. Not to mention we had rolled over negative equity from his previous vehicle to the new one, so in order to get rid of it when I sold it, I had to pay $9,000 in negative equity. So basically at this point I am trying to pay off the Credit Cards I had to max out to do so. Still fixing his mess months after the breakup ...
There's also more modest jewelry, like a "silver double love heart necklace with little cubic zirconias around the edge of larger heart." Real-world price: $150. Break-up price: $80. And a simple explanation that goes with it: "My ex is history and I want the jewelery he gave me to be as well," says the seller.
Then there's the 2-carat wedding ring, real-world price, $6,400; break-up price, $3,000:
Was married 23 years and didn't ever have a wedding ring ... marriage was on the rocks ...He was trying to buy me to keep me... so this ring hasn't been worn more than 2 years. Divorced 2 years later... No longer needed and need the money.
There are also wedding dresses never worn.
A Maggie Sottero gown, for example, originally $1,500, is offered at $1,300 (with the seller willing to bargain):
After our wedding turned into everything HE wanted, I realized that the path I was heading into wasn't where i wanted to be," she writes. "So i called off the wedding 2 months before so that I could be happy again. I absolutely love this dress and really hate parting with it but I feel like it is the final step to ending that relationship. I hope a gorgeous bride will walk down the isle with it one day!
The site was started by an Australian woman, Annabel Acton, who "decided to set up a kind of eBay for bitter brides and disgruntled grooms and other brokenhearted," notes The New York Post. Acton, the newspaper said, "was inspired by her own miserable breakup with her boyfriend five days before Christmas."
"All this pathetic ?Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? was sappy," Acton told the Post. "I wanted something spunky."
Spunky it is. Never Liked It Anyway isn't all about the dollars; it's also about healing. The site includes a "Moving on Manual," a crowd-sourced grab bag of "tips and tricks to help you move on fast, as written by you."
Many of those tips are helpful, and many are just cathartic: "Get the Fat App and distort a photo of them. Instant relief and instant comedy!" wrote "MissB."
Wrote "PeteRepeat": "Watch jersey shore and remember, it could always be worse... you could be The Situation."
And there's this, from "kmobayeni":?"Ban all Celine Dion songs (you should do this anyway)."
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