Originally Posted by
bealine
Did you buy the items using a credit card? If so, the credit card statements might not itemise each item, but they would serve to show evidence of a shopping spree in the USA a few days before your Nassau trip.
If you can remember the names of the stores where you purchased the goods, and you know the dates within a day or two, you could also try emailing the stores to ask for proof of purchase.
No. I used cash. Our credit cards still incur a foreign transaction fee so i basically only use it where needed. Hotels/Tickets/Car Rentals.
I do know the names of the stores but I don't think they would be able to help without the receipt #. We're talking big chain stores like Macy's, J.C Penney etc. There's no way with the hundreds of sales they ring up every day they would agree to look for a receipt just by date.
Originally Posted by
flatlander
Unfortunately this will not help you in this case, but for anyone else who happens on this thread, I strongly suggest photographing the receipts with your phone before giving them up to anyone, ever. Most people will accept a good photo as a "scanned copy" of a receipt.
I realize that now. I do intend to do that on all future trips and upload the pics to dropbox or email for safekeeping. Until i'm sure I no longer need them. Lesson learned.
I do wonder however. What happens when they lose luggage but the items are purchases from years ago. I mean nobody keeps receipts for everything they ever bought indefinitely.