I just sold the handbags I once kept for financial security

[Anonymous]

I get what the OP is saying. Good for her. My bags and jewelry my husband gifts me could be for a rainy day fund if needed. Luckily I don't need to sell anything but would and could if needed. Enjoy your new to you used car!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should have sold them to Love Luxury

I did ok today without it but cool to know

[Anonymous]

This is a male troll fantasy. Real people sell using fashionphile with authenticity check. And you get a check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a male troll fantasy. Real people sell using fashionphile with authenticity check. And you get a check.

Fashionphile is trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t buy it. You don’t some the kind of money it takes to acquire 10 Hermes bags without your husband noticing.

He was probably too busy hiding his own affair to notice

Like making excuses for needing to spend money to go to “business conferences” that didn’t actually exist.

It’s a two way street. Wives don’t pay attention to what their husbands spend, and husbands don’t pay attention to what their wives spend until an actual divorce.

And since they don’t want the extra scrutiny of their own dissipation of marital funds during the marriage, they let it go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should have sold them to Love Luxury

OP here. I got lucky in that my ex’s former partner also loves bags but didn’t have the access I had to get so many.

The way I had somewhat serendipitous access was that I had a friend I actually made online, in a bag forum on an old website that had message boards. She regularly flew to the city for her treatments. One day we met in person and had lunch and she sort of took me under her wing and took me to the boutique. She introduced me to her SA. Then it became a thing we did 2x a year for a while.

The SA and I got along very well and she turned into a local friend in a sense. She also had a sideline where she’d drive to where I lived and sell me bags in person that her other clients wanted to sell for cash. I never turned her in for that, which I guess I could have, and I stayed her client. So some bags I had for new at the boutique, but a lot at a significant discount. I lasted long enough to be able to put in special orders.

A few other bags I eventually got from a well known e-retailer and they usually charged 10K per standard bag. Not exotic etc.

I got lucky again yesterday in that I happened to know someone I hadn’t seen in years but who really wanted to see what I had. She and her husband still keep a pied a terre in the city and they both came out and we dragged out boxes and boxes from the closet I rarely dress out of anymore, anyway. He brought the thick envelopes full of 100s (20K). But his wife kept choosing more bags and asking what else I had, and as we agreed on quick prices he wrote out a personal check for the rest.

[Anonymous]

OP again. It was money spent a long time ago

But I took good care of the bags and I need money today.

I ended up depositing the check and all the cash in $100s even though I really wanted to keep it, because by this morning I came to my senses and realized that there’s almost nothing you can use $100s for anymore anyway except to tip, and I don’t go anywhere else like that anymore, while the wife I sold them to still does.

It made sense

[Anonymous]

OP again

The couple who came here yesterday bought a 3d hand 40cm from the 90s that I bought for 4K because it’s in a ridiculously heavy leather … sold it to them for the same price… because they want to use it to carry their two tiny dogs

I am A-OK with realizing I need cash and they. Do. Not.

[Anonymous]

I just can't with OP's vulgar Nouveau Riche Divorcee persona.

The fat envelopes of cash. The glee. The couture adoration. The inability to understand inflation and the lack of basic financial literacy.

Sorry, OP, I don't care whether you're a troll or a real person, but the main character here does not attract my sympathy. But if you make it unpleasant enough, you might have material for an Anti-Heroine that people love to hate, "loosely based on your life". Stick it to the billionnaire husband. In the current social context, it might get published.

[Anonymous]

OP here

OKAY !!!!!

You seem to care a little, though, at least enough to type that out

I’m just telling a rainy day story, and if I had talent enough to be a writer to be published (which I don’t) I wouldn’t need to sell anything.

I’m not sure why it makes you so annoyed, though, I’m just sharing that I sold some stuff on a sub forum about fashion, where it seems to fit.

[Anonymous]

OP didn’t you get money in the divorce settlement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP didn’t you get money in the divorce settlement?

OP we roughly split assets in the planning phases but the divorce was never actually finalized because I turned out to have cancer.

I think they were hoping I’d just die and they’d luck out and get everything and stop having to pay lawyers bills but so far I have not yet died

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty much what the song “Diamknfd are a girls best friends” is about.

A kiss may be grand but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat….
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But pear shaped or square shape
These rocks won’t lose their shape
Diamonds are a girls best friend

Although in that case it’s the affair partner, not the wife. But the point still stands —

No, it doesn't. The wife gets a lawyer to protect her financial interests. The AP can't do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a male troll fantasy. Real people sell using fashionphile with authenticity check. And you get a check.

100 percent.

No soon-to-be ex wife (or recent ex wife or whatever) with a closet full of Hermes bags is going to be without a car, let alone excited about going to the dealership and getting a 20k used one. The story makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should have sold them to Love Luxury

OP here. I got lucky in that my ex’s former partner also loves bags but didn’t have the access I had to get so many.

The way I had somewhat serendipitous access was that I had a friend I actually made online, in a bag forum on an old website that had message boards. She regularly flew to the city for her treatments. One day we met in person and had lunch and she sort of took me under her wing and took me to the boutique. She introduced me to her SA. Then it became a thing we did 2x a year for a while.

The SA and I got along very well and she turned into a local friend in a sense. She also had a sideline where she’d drive to where I lived and sell me bags in person that her other clients wanted to sell for cash. I never turned her in for that, which I guess I could have, and I stayed her client. So some bags I had for new at the boutique, but a lot at a significant discount. I lasted long enough to be able to put in special orders.

A few other bags I eventually got from a well known e-retailer and they usually charged 10K per standard bag. Not exotic etc.

I got lucky again yesterday in that I happened to know someone I hadn’t seen in years but who really wanted to see what I had. She and her husband still keep a pied a terre in the city and they both came out and we dragged out boxes and boxes from the closet I rarely dress out of anymore, anyway. He brought the thick envelopes full of 100s (20K). But his wife kept choosing more bags and asking what else I had, and as we agreed on quick prices he wrote out a personal check for the rest.

So ... probably stolen. Or really well made fakes.