Web Services Help Heal Your Pain: Ring Exchange

John Biggs

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Monday, February 5th, 2007

Are you done with her? Did she make that “snort snort” noise in the bathroom one too many times? Is her hair slightly off-color and won’t match your new speakers? Does she want to talk about your “cheating” again? Well, drop her like a bad habit and resell her engagement ring at a tidy profit.

Yes, friends, the Internet has finally found a way to turn heartache and deep emotional ties into a financial transaction — something that the world’s oldest profession has been doing for years. Created by Joshua Opperman, a young man who discovered he could only get a third of his ring’s value at resale, this website brings the jilted and the soon-to-jilt together. And we thought ingenuity is dead here in the U.S.

IDoNowIDont.com via Thrillist

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