Receipt in another language

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Hi all
Trying to be deliberately vague here but I wondered if anybody could answer a question. Have you ever bought anything (clothes/jewellery) in one country, say Spain but the receipt for it was in a completely different language (say French). Random question I know but obviously I’m trying to work out if someone was really where they said they were on a particular day. Thank you x

Well I guess there are 3 things to consider:

1. Is there no address or phone number on the receipt?

1. Were they in a part of a country (eg Spain) ie Cataluña where another language is used ie Catalan?

1. What does the person in question have to say about this?

There is an address on the receipt but it’s a residential address, even though there is a company name on the receipt and it’s a proper, till generated receipt.

The language is completely different - it’s in French when the person said they were in Spain.

The person doesn’t know that I’ve seen it yet…. Hence the covert digging!!

Seems odd, is there a reason they'd lie about the country?

I'd say it's unlikely.

I can't think how that would happen. Even when I've bought things from Carrefour, which is a French supermarket, the receipt has been in Spanish.

Was this person so close to the border that they could have gone into France as part of the trip?

I guess it might depend on where the business was registered and where they were paying their VAT? But even then, that seems a bit of a weird way of doing business.

I think that's clutching at straws. Far more likely they were in France.

No, they weren’t close to the border - miles and miles away. I think the correct answer is the obvious one, that person just wasn’t where they told me that they were at that time. I was just hoping (clutching at straws!) that somebody would pipe up and say they had had a receipt in a different language before. Ridiculous I know! Thanks all

No shop is going to print receipts in a foreign language because they are based in a different country, take would be nuts, how would the staff and customers know what they has sold/bought?

I've heard of this happening a couple of times where its been English in a technically non English speaking country- but a place that does get tourists so makes sense in some ways I guess

Op are you suspecious your partner or the gift that he gave you? Post the receipt on here lots of people here can help you figure out not me off course I am rubbish at languages.

Ask for a detail account of the trip and see if information tallies or checks out .

I meant suspicious typo error.

Sounds a bit fishy.