The trend of compulsive buying began to develop gradually starting in the early 1980s. Until then it was seen as a problem reserved for a small part of the population. Among the numerous scales to measure these tendencies, the Diagnostic Screener for Compulsive Purchase (DSCB) gains importance (Faber & O'Guinn, 1992). This scale helps discriminate self-identified compulsive buyers from members of the general population. In this study, researchers used the DSCB to identify compulsive buying tendencies in normal consumers. A discussion on negative behaviors arouses a lot of interest especially because they deviate from our routine and normal life. Compulsive buying is one such phenomenon, seen as a negative/unwanted behavior that leads to undesirable social and economic consequences. The phenomenon of compulsive buying is not new. Early 19th century researchers called it Oniomania (compulsive desire to shop). It was defined as an impulsively driven purchase that resulted in a senseless amount of debt (Kraepelin, 1915). It was only in the late 1980s that compulsive buying began to receive the necessary attention (Magee, 1994) due to the serious personal and social consequences. Years later, it is now known that compulsive buying is a behavioral disorder that causes an individual to continuously make purchases regardless of the financial, social or psychological consequences (Faber, 1992, Valence et al 1988). Compulsive buying has its roots in the literature on obsessive compulsion. Research papers on compulsive buying began to appear in areas such as psychotherapy (Kruger, 1988), addiction (Glatt & Cook, 1987), and consumer behavior (Faber, O' Guinn & Krych, 1987). In all the literature there is... half the paper... York: McMillanBragg, J. (2009). Dig out of $80,000 in debt. CNN.comChristenson, G.A., Faber, R.J., de Zwaan, M., Raymond, N., Specker, A., Eckert, M.D., et. al. (1994). “Compulsive Buying: Descriptive Characteristics and Psychiatric Comorbidity,” Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 55, pp 5-11. Damon, J., (1988), Shopaholics. Los Angeles, CA: Price Stern Sloan Inc. DeSarbo, W. and Edwards, E.A. (1996), "Typologies of Compulsive Buying Behavior: A Constrained Cluster Wise Regression Approach," Journal of Consumer Psychology, 5 (3) , 231 -262 .Glatt, MM and Cook, CC, (1987), "Pathological spending as a form of psychological dependence", British Journal of Addiction, 82,1257-1258.Goldsmith, T. and McElroy, S. (2000). Compulsive buying: associated disorders and pharmacological treatment. In A.L.Benson (ed.), “I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and Burning