Brutally honest eBay post for wedding dress prompts surprising outcome

She's selling her dress to pay for her divorce.
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Rachel Thompson
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LONDON -- Finding out the love of your life has cheated on you is one thing. But then having to foot the bill for the divorce? Well, that's a whole other level of awfulness.

This is the terrible situation Samantha Wragg of Chesterfield, UK, is facing. And she's taken to eBay to sell her wedding dress. The product description of her ivory Art Deco dress is likely the darkest one to ever grace the site.

"Great condition but needs dry cleaning before wearing to get rid of the stench of betrayal," reads the product's description. "If you want a dress that is full of bad memories and shattered hopes and dreams then this is the one for you," it continues.


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Wragg apologized for the lack of photos of the dress, admitting that when she found out her husband was living with another woman, she burned and permanently deleted everything with his "disgusting" face on it.

"I didn't have time to get it dry-cleaned myself before my cheating scumbag of a husband decided to call an end to our marriage," wrote Wragg. "It cost my poor parents around £2,000 ($2,629) brand new in 2014."

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While her dress might have originally cost £2,000, it's looking like Wragg is set to make one mighty profit from her misfortune. The dress has already reached almost £66,000 ($86,817) in bids, which might be pretty useful for Wragg's divorce bills.

"If you've got any questions -- either about the dress or the skank that my husband ran off with -- then please feel free to contact me," Wragg continued.

Here's hoping the dress brings someone else some happiness...

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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