Dissapearing Ink?????

Bought a battery for my truck in 8/05,that I believe is warrantied for 5yrs.Found my receipt in glove box(boy was I surprised).Well anyways all the print on it is completely gone.All thats there is the note I wrote on it in pen.
Whats up with that?
It never got wet,wasnt in the sun.
Dont even see any punch holes on the battery.

Oh well,maybey I could take a few Hells Angels in there with me to see if they can help me out,LOL.

Stan

Tractor Supply used to use a purple vegetable ink on their receipts. It would gradually fade to nothing over time. If left exposed to light, it would fade to unreadable in a month or two.

Yep, just like the original 3 M paper left in the sun zip it is gone. Many of the big box stores use similar paper. Forced to keep the paper work in a drawer in the house in the dark.

A person has to wonder if all that is a unplaned. Any idea how many dollars are involved in the ---can't prove ordeal?--

I put my recipts often in a bilfold, and a few days later you have to wonder what it says.

Wally world used to place the recipt / warrenty in a little envelope attatched to the battery. A week in the hot sun with a old tractor, and a rain or two, not to mention the presure washer, and it's useless to try to collect a warrenty.

In our county court house if you ask for a recipt in the licence for vehickle department they will gladly give you the adding machine print out. I always wonder what would happen if the IRS was to get in to details in that recipt.

Of all the government rules, you would also wonder why they can't print out exactly what you purchased with a recipt. A week after a trip to wally world, and you can't make out what the recipt actualy says. The computer programers are probably from India, or China.

I agree those termal receipts are horrible. It is easy for the store since they don't have to stock toner for their receipt machines, but time and heat make them nearly if not completely unreadable.

I might try taking it back and saying here is my receipt. When they say they won't take it back because they can't read it I would put my foot down and say I brought it back as you asked. I can't help it that you are too cheap to use real ink and now can't read it. If nothing else I would get a chuckle out of it.

I have returned stuff to HD without a reciept, they looked it up on my credit card.

Look on the bottom of the battery. It can't be any older than that. BTW, you should always check the age of a new battery the same way.

I thought that the ink was evaporating as it was disapearing. I was going to stop that mess with scotch tape. Put the tape over the printing and I dont think it took a half a day and the Ink was gone. Now I make a copy in the copier and staple the original to it, put it in the folder and and hope for the best.
Angle Iron

When I had my business i wouid make a copy of the receipts then staple together with receipts and put in phile box.

SJ. We take a PHOTO of the receipt if it's(items that are expensive) print out a copy and staple it to the original (faded out in time) one. LOU

Had someone mail me a FAX on that old coated paper- they had highlighted the pertinent portion. Unfortunately, the yellow highlighter reacted with the coated paper chemicals, and the next time I looked at it, the highlighted (important) portion was a thick black line.

But the un-highlighted portion, which I didn't care about, was fine!

Yep, disappearing ink. Is what we used. Used to cost us a fortune way back when, but then some little kids came up with a recipe and posted on the internet and only charged us a few hundred $$$ to access it and copy it so we can make our own. Has saved us $Thousands upon $Thousands in purchasing disappearing ink alone, and when you get into what we saved over not having to pay out for blank, and obvious fake receipts unless proved otherwise, we all ended up with vacation homes (mansions) in the Bahamas, France, South America, Tokyo, and you name it. No, just joking.

By the way on a serious note, when I was a kid I worked after school at an auto parts store that was a nationwide chain store. Back then ALL warrantees on things like batteries were "prorated". Meaning every month a certain amount got deducted for usage. Say for instance a person, you, purchased a 5 year battery and paid maybe $80.00 as an example. Say for instance, the amount prorated (deducted) per month for wear and tear usage was $2.00. That means after a year, 12 months, your battery lost $24.00 in value, and was now worth $56.00, not the $80.00 that you paid when you bought it. If it went bad and you brought it in, we would credit you $56.00 or whatever was left after how ever months was prorated, so if a replacement cost $80.00 to replace still, and we credited you $56.00 towards a replacement, that meant to get the replacement would cost you the difference of $24.00. Do that after 2 or maybe 3 years, and by the time prorated really kicked in, a 5 year battery had a worthless warranty. See what I mean? 3 years multiplied by 12 multiplied by $2.00 equals $72.00 in usage and wear and tear, and you ended up with the remaining $8.00 credit towards a warranteed battery. I don't know if they still do that, but back then thats how all of the major battery manufacturers warranties worked, except for whatever the $$$ amount of the "prorated" costs. Now, this was the mid-1970's and back then, the worst warranty as far as batteries went was AC-Delco. For one...back then...their batteries didn't hold up for squat, and they had the largest prorate cost. Seems to me that back then, after prorating, a 5 year battery from then was worthless after less than half of its life or warranty. So that I don't get myself in trouble for disparaging them, I'm certain that they are much, much, much better these days whether they are or not. Grin

Mark

The store probably has the purchase in their computor. Stan

Not much warranty left is there? 8/05 I would sure try but...

When I was working on my taxes for this year I found about half the fuel recepts from one of the gas stations I (used to) use were blank. Some I could almost make out, some were nothing but white paper. I made copies of all the ones that would make readable copies. Had recepts from 4 or 5 stations, went on and made copies of all of them. Starting this year I make copies of every thing once a month or so when ever I clean out my wallet.

Home copiers are cheap, buy one and make copies of all receipts. We should be doing this not only for "disappearing ink", but things do happen like lost reciepts, house fires, floods, etc.
Always have important documents in duplicate and stored in separate locations.

On about 50% of the receipts I receive the printing has faded beyond use within a year.

AUTOzoneJUNK sold me a psteering pump for Jeep 2 yrs and 40 thousand mile later it was JUNK ,, took original recipt to them so they could MAKE THIER TRASH GOOD ,.. No Go !, ink had faded away from storage in in glove Box ,, it was only 40 bucks and I was dealing with a poor kid with no supervisor around ,, took my beating and left

EVER wonder why those l;ittle vials of PRINTER INK COSTS SO damuch ???then the stuff disappears ...wth ?