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Thermal paper receipts - a word of advice
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If you go to a certain well known retailer, where you pick stuff out of a catalogue, they give you a receipt printed on thermal paper. (Other places use it too, but this is the place in question in this instance.) If you buy anything with any kind of waranty or guarantee from anywhere that uses these kind of receipts, take a photocopy of it pretty soon and staple the original to it, because in 8 months time when the thing you bought goes wrong and you dig out the receipt to take it back, all you will find is a blank piece of paper and you won't be able to prove when you bought it. :impissed:
Honestly, they might just as well print them in invisible ink.
Honestly, they might just as well print them in invisible ink.
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I think they use dissapering ink on purpose - maplin's receipts are like those the ink disappears before the warranty finishes ..lol
How do you tell if something is on thermal paper btw?
They kind train tickets are printed on.
Yes, it is.
Thermal paper is thin and smooth and kind of has a slight sheen on it. Once you know what it's like you can't mistake it.
However. Boots use the same kind of receipts, except they fade in days. So yes, if you buy anything electrical from Boots do the same! And if you get your reciept validated to put the points on your Boots card guard it with your life, because the minute the barcode or the validation numbers start to fade you'll get tuts and sighs from the staff
Ours are year gurantees as well. But I promise you, you're lucky if they last a few weeks.
But you can lose the email though.
Actually, if you order online, don't they keep records of what you've ordered?