Our research findings indicate that consumer preferences for shopping and buying on the Internet as opposed to bricks- and-mortar stores differ depending on their tendency to buy compulsively. Further, this preference for the Internet and the tendency to buy compulsively can be at least partially explained by the set of shopping motivations identified in this paper. Another important contribution of the present research per- tains to identifying the relationship between compulsive buying tendency and shopping motives and other relevant behavioral variables. All motives but the product and information variety showed a significant positive relationship with scores on the compulsive buying scale. In addition, all additional behavioral motives showed a similar significant relationship with com- pulsive buying. This finding indicates that people who exhibit strong tendencies to buy compulsively experience stronger feel- ings with respect to shopping and buying, stronger buying and shopping motivations, and exhibit more extreme shopping and buying behaviors.