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Old 2004-07-13, 11:31 AM   #20
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Originally posted by ecchi

No, they do exist. A good friend of mine suffered from it. Ended up selling everything of value he owned to fund it, even lost his job over it.
Yep, and there are people who spend all their kid's food and school clothing budget on useless knick-knacks from eBay, or on Hummel figurines (shudder) or on DVDs, or on...

I think this is more of a general behavior syndrome - call it "impulse-buying syndrome," maybe. It's only newsworthy because some of these folks put their obsessive buying fixation on (gasp! horrors!) SEX!.

I think a link to an organization that wants to ban credit cards would be a more precise addressing of the issue (and of course as equally counter-productive to our industry as "porn-addiction" groups, were the busybodies to actually have any impact - which they won't). |rasta|
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