Within the world of addiction, there are many that are not very common, but are of this character, and compulsive buying is by definition the uncontrollable desire to acquire any property, regardless of income or need, generating a cost that may exceed individual budget, making it almost unconsciously and with the subsequent repentance.

The reasons people take such action unconsciously, may have different causes, being the most definite psychological, such as personal dissatisfaction and frustration, looking through an outlet shopping with these psychological barriers.

Another factor leading to the purchase of influence is the effect of subliminal advertising, which hardly can be considered a science today, to bring life to instill a model to follow or brave new world, to which we all have access, only if buy a certain product, to being outside this world, but we do.

As a typical pattern this addiction is based on satisfaction generated by the purchase, which in turn is momentary, that lasts a very short period of time, when the same are present feelings of guilt and regret, that in order to suppress the addict relapses into making another purchase this creates the vicious cycle that characterizes addiction.

The consequences of such exaggerated and repetitive impulse to acquire property, leading to severe personal problems and coexistence, since negation and falsehood gradually take hold in the individual, affecting their personality, besides the economic phase shift, which in the worst case takes it to steal, requiring as in any addiction, immediate professional attention.