Fading receipts

[drcpunk]

I accumulate credit card receipts and atm receipts in my wallet. And, I'd gotten into the habit of entering down my charges, my withdrawals, all of that, and emptying out the receipts every so often.

But, for some time now, there's a new brand of receipt out there. The ink fades within a week, tops. This is true of my atm receipts. It's true of some of my credit card receipts. I did a clean out today, and found one that looks like a fragile piece of white paper, but which I'm sure was a receipt for something I charged. I don't know if it's something that's a duplicate -- you know, a charge receipt and a cashier's receipt sort of deal -- and it'll likely sort itself out in my statements. But, man, it's annoying.

Anyone else hit this problem?

Comments

[kyrielle]

Oh yeah. I hate it. Have to wait then for the bank statements, just to balance it.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Yep. Same deal. Only for me it's worse, because I absentmindedly use ATM and purchase receipts for bookmarks, and then have to remember to remove them before they go back on the shelves.

Not that it always happens; with the older ones, at least, I could be amused by "gee, I read this book six years ago -- time to go back to it now." Now, it's just a blank.

Feh.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

It might just be incompetence on the bank/ATM company/checkout machine company's parts, but there's also a plausible paranoid reading. Banks make money on overdrafts, and they don't make it easy to find out exactly what your balance is.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I dunno. It's also true of some receipts from some stores.