srands
Retro Guru
When most of use make a big purchase we may do the following,:
~ KEEP THE RECEIPT (For at least a year for warranty purposes, or indefinately until with no longer have the product)
~ MAKE A NOTE OF THE DETAILS (Frame number, make, model and all specifications).
However many people these days may only keep receipts and statements for stuff to do with their car, mortgage, pension, loans, etc.
Do you still have the receipt for your MTB? If NO, do you remember WHY you don't have the receipt? Does the reason sound plausible? Believe me since looking at MTB's that were RRP £3000 2nd hand, I've heard some right stories, of why there is no receipt.
ME, yes I still have mine (Original bike shop receipt), and also the original bike hand book (But these are usually generic outdated rubbish, except maybe the suspension fork/shock hand book instructions).
But other people may have been given an expensive quality MTB as a present, so getting the receipt never happened.
Or some may have lost the receipt over time.
Or some may have bought their MTB 2nd hand and didn't get a receipt.
The other conundrum here, is if buying a 2nd hand bike, and the original receipt is not available, but the MTB still has it frame number visible, the POLICE can take upto 2 days to say IF the MTB has been reported stolen or NOT. But this only applies to the LOCAL POLICE FORCE you enquired to, NOT nationally (So if stolen from another county, stolen MTB may be unnoticed by the Police!)
~ KEEP THE RECEIPT (For at least a year for warranty purposes, or indefinately until with no longer have the product)
~ MAKE A NOTE OF THE DETAILS (Frame number, make, model and all specifications).
However many people these days may only keep receipts and statements for stuff to do with their car, mortgage, pension, loans, etc.
Do you still have the receipt for your MTB? If NO, do you remember WHY you don't have the receipt? Does the reason sound plausible? Believe me since looking at MTB's that were RRP £3000 2nd hand, I've heard some right stories, of why there is no receipt.
ME, yes I still have mine (Original bike shop receipt), and also the original bike hand book (But these are usually generic outdated rubbish, except maybe the suspension fork/shock hand book instructions).
But other people may have been given an expensive quality MTB as a present, so getting the receipt never happened.
Or some may have lost the receipt over time.
Or some may have bought their MTB 2nd hand and didn't get a receipt.
The other conundrum here, is if buying a 2nd hand bike, and the original receipt is not available, but the MTB still has it frame number visible, the POLICE can take upto 2 days to say IF the MTB has been reported stolen or NOT. But this only applies to the LOCAL POLICE FORCE you enquired to, NOT nationally (So if stolen from another county, stolen MTB may be unnoticed by the Police!)