misbuy

• mis-buy

From mis- +‎ buy.

misbuy (third-person singular simple present misbuys, present participle misbuying, simple past and past participle misbought)

1. (transitive) To buy in error or regretfully.
   • 1918, The Northwestern Miller, volume 113, page 995:

     We are giving special attention to the wants of Canadian misbuying Manitoba wheat and other grains.

   • 2002, Richard Brooks, Peter Robinson, A New Contract for Retirement, page 23:

     The pensions industry has fresh scars from the personal pensions mis-selling episode, and is now wary of accusations that people have been allowed to 'mis-buy' financial products such as stakeholder pensions.

   • 2008, Marcelles Brown, Blanche Brown, Color Spectrums of the Mind, page 73:

     Now as we bury him treasure and cry over your jewel, you realize hmm...you mistraught it, misbought it […]

   • 2013, Adrian Palmer, EBOOK: Principles of Services Marketing, page 435:

     Did the salesperson mis-sell or did the buyer mis-buy?

   • 2017, Alexander P. M. van den Bosch, Zwoerd, page 7:

     That 'thing', on wish.com, find the RIGHT one, THAT color PINK, I misbought for other before and meh... and a price of... that of a BIOS.

   • 2021, Roger Miles, Culture Audit in Financial Services, page 71:

     As you might expect, conduct regulators are very interested in any form of bias that leads people to underestimate a risk, or to mis-buy a contract, or to be (perhaps unwittingly) colluding in activity that distorts fair market-making.

• misbought
• misbuying

misbuy (plural misbuys)

1. An erroneous buy; a purchase made in error or by mistake; a purchase made without proper understanding, research, or consideration, often leading to regret.
   • 1930, Southern Furniture Journal, volume 59, page 3:

     Forget the misbuys after you have profited by them and lay stress upon the new.

   • 1938, National Grocers Bulletin, volume 25, page 20:

     There is likewise the necessity to "unload" misbuys in case the grocer finds himself "stung" with some new commodity that seems glued to the shelves.