let another customer use my liscense to return item

[NoTine42]

At Menards, they send you over to a receipt printing kiosk. You swipe your credit card, it pulls up your receipts, you print the relevant receipt, and then you can return your item with receipt.

 

[MongGrel]

Walked into Home Depot today to return some furnace filters and the guy behind me asked to use my license to return some of his items for store credit. No biggie, so I handed the lady my license to return the guys things. Now feeling a little nervous about having done so.

You're probably fine I imagine.

But not doing it again might be a good plan 🙂

 

[slag]

I can't remember ever in my lifetime trying to return anything without a receipt. Pretty damned easy to keep receipts. If I think there's even a remote chance that I might need to return an item, I'll keep the product packaging for a couple of months as well, no matter how big or small the purchase. It's easy enough to do if you have the room.

I went through an old stack of receipts a couple months ago. I had receipts for tools, clothing and CDs that I purchased in the late 80s.

Except its not. I bought $330 worth of stuff last week and folded the receipt up neatly and put it into my wallet so that I could file it away when I got home. I got paged on the way home and my mind went elsewhere. Fast forward to yesterday when I saw the receipt in my wallet and pulled it out, only to find that the ink had transferred inside the folds and was super faint anyway. No way it could be reasonably read, and thats only a week after I got it! The thermal ink crap they use is horrible. Even leaving the receipt in your car over a weekend in the sun can be enough to ruin it. I think stores should also keep a database of your purchases that is tied to your debit or credit card. Many already do this, it should be the norm for all larger businesses so that your purchase isn't dependent on a 1 cent piece of paper that they use the cheapest possible ink ever made to record your purchase on.

 

[Mike64]

No way it could be reasonably read, and thats only a week after I got it! The thermal ink crap they use is horrible.

Honestly, I've never had this problem myself, though sometimes they do fade after a long period of time (imx, Home Depot's seem to especially bad that way.)

But if it becomes an issue in your particular situation, a tip you might find useful is that photocopiers and scanners will usually pick up faded printing even if it's too faint to be read with the naked eye. If you take that copy as well as the original receipt, you should be able to "convince" them to accept it (if only by threatening to go to a consumer affairs agency) since, as you allude to, it's not your fault they use crappy printing technology and you do, after all, have the "original receipt."