Never Liked It Anyway: Website Sells Objects From Breakups (VIDEO)

Why let that tear-stained, boxed-up wedding dress in the garage go to the moths when you can cash in on it?

A new start-up site, NeverLikedItAnyway.com, allows the brokenhearted to sell the objects that remain after a split -- think wedding gowns, rings and more -- while venting about their exes.

The site was launched in December 2011 by 28-year-old Annabel Acton after her own breakup left her with two unused plane tickets and gifted artwork she no longer wanted.

Acton browsed the web's breakup site offerings and was surprised to find only "depressing blogs" and "miserable advice from relationship experts." She said she wanted her site to put a positive, profitable spin on breaking up.

"Starting the site was an opportunity to come in with a voice that was a bit cheeky and irreverent and kind of fun," the New York-based business consultant told Huffington Post Divorce. "It just kind of reminds everyone that this does happen to everyone, because when you do break up, you kind of feel like you're the only one in the world who's gone through it."

Aside from the listings, the site also features a companion blog called The Juice, where the dumped can vent about their splits, and a Moving On Manual full of reader-submitted tips on getting past the breakup. Action said she's most proud of the support-group vibe fostered by the site.

"The community is really lovely. If someone is interested in buying your item, there's usually some kind of email exchange: 'I'm interested in buying your item, but I just want to tell you I'm so sorry -- I read your story and I've been there,'" she said. "I was really worried that people were going to use the site for naming and shaming, but people have really gotten the intent of it."

Click through the slideshow below to see some of the most compelling listings, along with the descriptions that the sellers posted on the site.

Comments

[Rainer Lucks]

10:12 PM on 05/18/2012

It's not just Men who cheat! There are heaps of Women that do too but Men are more gracious and emotionaly better controlled and not carry on like Pork Chops and there for are less revengeful except for e few here and there.
My advice to Women out there. >> Never seek financial and emotional HAPPYNESS in some one else. Never rely on someone else to be committed to you. If you do" Then you are setting yourself up for expectations on your Partner may not live up to. Take one day as it comes for as long as it will last and when You or your Husband cheats then that is merely saying something is lacking in your relationship. Often People cheat because they are simply tired of the other Person and just want a new different experience. Many times it does not mean they (Men and Women want to dump their Partner! Marriage is not for Everyone. It has too many expectations attachedto it let alone having to live up to being with someone 24/7 > No wonder a 60% divorce rate is rife...

[redsoxprincess614]

07:42 PM on 05/18/2012

i cant get to the website, can someone send me the link

[Karen J Christian]

08:43 AM on 02/27/2012

I should have known what direction my marriage would take when I had to buy both my wedding ring and his because he "forgot" his wallet! Good reminder - will be selling mine today!

[one1byke]

08:53 AM on 02/26/2012

"two unused plane tickets and gifted artwork "....
Women helping women.

the usual, "lose your soul" stuff... reminds me: I gotta rewatch "The Craft."

[okayletsgo]

01:59 PM on 02/25/2012

I love this!! It's so funny how the people put background information about their breakup on the item description!

[MissTake1989]

12:20 AM on 02/25/2012

Jewelry serves no purpose except to allow the woman to feel more dignity than if she just accepted cash.

It's really just something to pawn later...or else cubic zirconium would be fine.

[desertlover]

12:14 AM on 02/25/2012

Those prices are WAY too high for used stuff.

[Bethany Klick]

01:41 PM on 02/24/2012

I've seen so many of my friends give tings back to their ex's because they "didn't want the reminder". Even expensive jewelry that by all rights was theirs. The idea of being able to sell these things so others can have better memories with them is actually really awesome! Recycling :D

[apennyforathought]

12:53 PM on 02/24/2012

At one time I wanted to pawn my rings but I decided to keep them. Maybe one day they can go to my kids when I pass or to my grandkids if I am lucky to have some till then "unless they are stolen" I'm not selling or pawning.

[Sprinks678]

10:01 AM on 02/24/2012

Long ago, when I was young and naive (in my20s), I found out that a man had asked me to marry him with the alterior motive of keeping his ex-wife from potentially gaining custody of their young daughter while he had sea duty. (Sounds like a Lifetime movie, eh?) I was naturally devastated and he felt so guilty for deceiving me that he told me to keep the engagment ring. Because we had only been engaged for 3 weeks and because I had the receipt for the ring in the little folder that the jewelry store put the protection policy for the ring in, I took that big ol' rock back to the store and received a full refund of over six thousand dollars for it. That ring paid off a nice little chunk of my student loans and the experience made me way less naive!

[phatemu]

10:07 AM on 02/24/2012

How did that make you feel - returning the ring for a windfall?

[Sprinks678]

11:15 AM on 02/24/2012

This guy was extremely charming. I was in my early 20s and my mother had just died, so I sort of desparate to belong to a family. He recognized this and was easily able to sweep me off my feet. His daughter was only 2 and I also fell in love with her and the idea of being a mother figure to her. My satisfaction in returning the ring was bittersweet at the time, because I was in love with the guy. It was nice to have some money to pay off part of my loans early, but at the time it didn't heal my broken heart.

[Gdfg Fedder]

12:18 PM on 02/26/2012

Pawning or returning an engagement ring and keeping the proceeds is illegal. An engagement ring is a contract to marriage and remains the legal property of the giver until you get married.

I hope you get sued for your greed.

[Sprinks678]

09:18 PM on 02/26/2012

This was over 20 years ago! It's not illegal if the man tells you to keep the ring--which he did. It's only illegal if the man expects the ring back. This man knew he had deceived me and felt bad about it. That's why he gave me the ring. Sounds like you've been burned in the past by a not-so-nice woman.

[DSevere]

08:26 AM on 02/24/2012

My original plan for my engagement ring from my first marriage was to make it into a big diamond stud for my pierced nose. But then I ran into financial problems so sold it to a pawn shop instead.

I think the idea of a web site where you can sell your stuff and vent is pretty cool!

[Sprinks678]

10:03 AM on 02/24/2012

I think so, too!

[TKDietz]

08:58 PM on 02/23/2012

I got a $137 for my wedding band as scrap gold. It was pretty beat up. It ended up in the garbage disposal one time. I took the money, and cried my eyes out. The guy said something about junk being worth a lot nowadays. It was a lot more than junk to me. It represented nearly twenty years of my life with someone I loved, a lot of good times and bad, a lot of hopes and dreams. But what was the point of keeping it? It sat in my jewelery box and almost called out to me when I'd walk by it. I'd put it on sometimes. almost like Smeagel on the Lord of the Rings. God, divorce sucks. $137. That's all it was worth.

[Sprinks678]

10:02 AM on 02/24/2012

I hope you used that $137 to buy yourself something nice! :)

[TooKrunk]

05:04 PM on 02/23/2012

I told my ex to stick her engagement ring somewhere else besides a blog...

[360Dunk]

09:56 AM on 02/24/2012

Did she stick it on her lesbian lover's ring finger?

[jabreal00]

03:36 PM on 02/23/2012

It's always interesting seeing what people think their junk is worth.

[360Dunk]

09:59 AM on 02/24/2012

I'll be honest - mine's not worth much when in a dormant, non-excited condition.

[jenniferkizzy]

03:04 PM on 02/23/2012

women put too much emphasis on material thing's shame we all do it bye