buyer's remorse
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Noun
- A feeling of anxiety or regret after making, or after promising to make, a purchase, especially a purchase encouraged by a high-pressure sales pitch.
- Coordinate term: seller's remorse
- 1953 May 11, “Correct for Figure Faults to Avoid Buyer's Remorse”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 21 October 2008, page 26:
- All too often, however, a gal comes home and buyer's remorse sets in. […] A dress looks dreamy when you try it on in the shop. But once you're standing in front of the mirror at home, something dreadful's happened.
- 2002 June 3, Wilson Rothman, “The Smart Ones”, in Time, archived from the original on 8 June 2008:
- In your new service contract, read the fine print of the buyer's remorse clause. Some carriers, such as VoiceStream, give you only 72 hours to decide whether to keep their service.
- (transferred sense) A feeling of regret after any kind of decision, for example voting for a certain party or consenting to sex with someone.
- Synonym: postdecisional regret
Translations
anxiety after purchase
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Further reading
- “buyer s remorse”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.