"Giver's remorse"

[Joel S. Berson]

I have heard "seller's remorse".  About 6440 Googlits.  Contexts are
real estate sales and auctions.

Joel

At 6/12/2006 03:09 PM, you wrote:
>I heard this for the first time, today. The speaker used it to mean,
>"unhappy as a consequence of having underestimated the value of
>something that could have been sold, but which was, instead, given
>away."
>
>Twenty-six Googlits, wherein the word is seems to be used primarily in
>the meaning, "unhappy as a consequence of having given a gift that the
>recipient didn't like."
>
>-Wilson Gray
>
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