Why would you pay £50 for a receipt ?

[Hilts]

confused, is this an insurance scam or something ??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0214899715

 

[SLIM]

cant think of any legitimate reason for doing it ?

unless your bike HAD been stolen and you`d lost the reciept for it to make a claim

 

[IbisMojo]

or a fork warranty repair...

 

[cannondale king]

shame its illegal what ever you do with it hope it comes round to bit him in the arse

 

[stevek]

WTF?! Scammer.

 

[Harryburgundy]

Now then, lets not get too hasty about this...seems like a good idea to me.
I still have the receipt for the dodgy egg and cress sandwich (you know the one...where the cellophane is blowing slightly) that gave me the sheets.
Might be worth a few quid :?:
Or howabout the bottle of wine I bought that had no caution that it would impair my vision/ability to operate machinery.
OK, I'm going off on a tangent, but think about this
How much cheaper would everything be if retailers/manufacturers didn't have to allocate a percentage of the overall cost to protect themselves against freeloading twits, like the seller of this receipt, and those that think they could use it.
Off to find a nice dark place to calm down a bit
HB

 

[jimihendrix]

Wonder if he'd be liable for legal action from J.E JAMES whos name it is on the receipt ?

 

[Andy B]

I wonder what would happen if JEJames found out

*whistles innocently*

 

[Anthony]

The receipt is the record of a sale from JEJames to the eBay seller. To get any value from it, the buyer of the receipt would not only have to have an identical bike for which they wanted to make some claim off JEJames, but was unable to because JEJames denied that they'd sold it to him (which they'd hardly be likely to do even if he'd lost his receipt), but also this buyer would have to impersonate the seller, which could be tricky. Anyways somebody has bid £50 for it.

Or perhaps they've bid a photocopy of a £50 note. That'd serve him right.

 

[orange71]

I assumed it was to make a claim off their own insurers - pretend their 'new bike' got nicked, "how much was it worth?" asks the insurers, "well here's the receipt"... voila.