Timeline for Should I collect receipts after paying with a card?
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| Apr 30, 2014 at 15:47 | comment | added | Dang Khoa | “I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you money and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario in which I would need to prove that I bought a doughnut." --Mitch Hedberg | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 11:37 | comment | added | o0'. | @JustinOhms you don't need the physical recipt for that. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 8:01 | answer | added | O. R. Mapper | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 0:28 | comment | added | Justin Ohms | Let us not forget the old Hollywood reason for keeping your receipts... They can prove when and where you were if the police pull you in for questioning. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 0:12 | comment | added | eggyal | Do you trust your card issuer's systems? Should there be an error, that receipt (and the merchant's willingness to support you, which may not be forthcoming if it is contrary to their interests) is pretty much the only proof you have that the error arose. In the ancient days of hand-written transaction details, the possibility of error was considerable and the necessity of keeping receipts quite real. Today, the risk is much reduced - but no doubt the possibility still concerns some paranoid types enough to ensure that receipts will stay with us for some time to come. | |
| S Apr 23, 2014 at 22:35 | history | suggested | senshin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
mild grammar cleanup - this is in the hot questions list
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 21:24 | comment | added | keshlam | The reason to keep a receipt, if you're going to keep it, is for your own records. Yes, the credit card statement will who who was paid and when, but sometimes knowing how much was spent on what is important for tax purposes, or for obtaining reimbursement. | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 21:04 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | Dilip Sarwate | In the good old days when credit cards used to be run through a imprinting machine and the holder had to sign a paper receipt with carbon copies (original to card company, carbon copies for merchant and card-holder -- bottom slip for the card holders), we used to be told to take not only the card-holder's copy but also the carbons to prevent someone from going through the restaurant's trash and finding a bunch of credit card numbers to sell. | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 17:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackFinance/status/459022905775779840 | ||
| Apr 23, 2014 at 16:53 | answer | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica♦ | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 16:35 | answer | added | emican | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 15:54 | answer | added | mhoran_psprep | timeline score: 17 | |
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 15:02 | history | asked | user4585 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |