'.....or like you they are very secure in their paper trail.'

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There is no 'paper trail'.  ( not being a business seller, the only 'paper' bits I'm familiar with are reciepts)

Lots of advice has been given over the last year, to 'keep all your receipts' when sellling on ebay, in case the HMRC want to have a look at you.

There's no receipts/paper trail for inherited tosh. Some of it is 70 years old.

There's no reciepts for my/hubby's personal stuff either.  I don't suppose I'm unusual in throwing reciepts etc. away once the item is seen to fit, seen to work, has run out of warranty, or has been used for whatever purpose.

We'd all be up to our knees in scraps of paper otherwise.....

And anyway, what would a receipt prove? Keeping receipts only proves that you bought something. Not what you intended to do with it.....