Originally Posted by hamster

I'm above average on procrastination+disorganization scale, and I have MOUNDS of paper archives in the house, up to & including paystubs from the job I held in 2001. But I tend to file receipts for purchases worth more than $500, and it took me less than two minutes to locate the receipt for my latest bike (same model year as the one in the ad, and also a Cannondale). It has the phone number of the store in two spots (on the bike delivery checklist and on the credit card transaction slip) and the serial number of the bike, also in two spots.

And If I try to sell that bike for less than a third of original MSRP and a little more than what the crankset alone is worth, I fully expect to be needing that receipt to prove that it's not stolen.