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Jobsworths without the jobs.

Why should they disclose it. This is just really an online forum.... I would not be surprised if they have them as a paid advertiser - makes sense on both sides..... each person has to evaluate the option and figure out if it is worth it for them. I have decided it is worth it for me and will probably purchase it next month (just started a new contract).

Google ads above the fold or between posts as TV has, are clearly distinguishable by a user as ads, your logic only applies there. Users mostly know to evaluate those ads themselves already, but in addition, every website should have a privacy policy stating they don't endorse the products or services in those ads, and Google decides to which ads to display. Example disclaimer - http://www.2createawebsite.com/other/disclaimer.html

Affiliate ads are also legally required to be disclosed, which not many people know:

http://microblogger.com/disclose-affiliate-links/

http://www.copyblogger.com/affiliate-marketing-disclosure/

When the premise of the actual site's content is an impartial forum on visa advice, and moderators recommend the TE program within posts in reply to user questions, at that point an affiliate relationship must be disclosed. Assuming the site wants to keep its integrity.

Thanks for your mature reply.

This member jumping on me adds weight to my argument.

Just thought as thai visa are sales reps for the cards they might do a little extra for there members and save me a trip.

As far as I know Thai Visa forum is not a sales rep for Thai Elite.

I'd be interested in a definitive answer. After TV started emailing newsletter subscribers TE adverts, I started a thread asking if TV are sales reps. It was instantly deleted.

It should be disclosed if they are as then members can be aware that posts on these boards may have affiliate bias.

As much as people like to point it out it it's hardly relevant that the TE card 'only' averages $3k/year, or 273 Baht 'less than minimum' wage' per day or whatever it is. It's paid as a $15k lump sum.

In anything, paying in instalments is much easier than paying up front, you are still earning while paying, no huge sunk cost. It's the whole basis of the credit card industry. No one wants to buy a $15k visa, or rather not a visa but an agreement between a private company founded by Thaksin and immigration to let you live in this politically unstable country.

The TE card used to be much maligned on these forums, now everyone's singing its praises. May have something to do with it giving commissions to affiliates (including ThaiVisa) that refer customers.

I've read that when you call 1584 the next time the driver goes to renew their taxi license or whatever, they are fined 1000 baht. Not sure if true, but worth doing.

Once safely back home in his parents house in Scotland, the subject sold his story to various newspapers, wrote a book, made a couple of embarrassing speaking appearances in nearby pubs and subsequently died a tragically young death. The Coroner recorded an open verdict although in his closing statements he did make reference to the vast amounts of illegal substances found nearby!

Next.

I see how you reach 15k posts.

Willingness to not recognize or simply break the law.

Good job courts only consider character evidence admissible if relevant to the crime with which a person is accused. Otherwise unpaid parking tickets could convince a jury you did it.

https://twitter.com/andylines

I'm a sceptic too. I might be unfair to the young man but how can he work as a 'barman' for 18 months on the island?. Work permit? Sounds fishy to me.

Many western barmen on Koh Tao and other islands don't have permits, what does that have to do with his credibility as a murder witness?

the very first press release stated that they had closed all the piers and no boats were permitted to leave

I know everyone has a short attention span, or may have missed that, in their attempt to belittle the Thai investigators

You missed a follow up BBC article saying that no, they didn't close off the island, they just said they did.

New UK passorts issued after a name change now have a computerised link to the previous name for tracking. Do not know if the Thai Border control systems are able to read this info from UK passports.

In that case renewing one's passport twice could be a solution.

"He revealed the Thai men snarled at him"...

That doesn't suggest paraphrasing, that's how you would address a direct quote.

And the quote is way too good English for a mafia goon. It reads like something from a poor crime novel.

OK the guy is spooked about something and maybe someone has leant on him to keep quiet or keep his nose out of other people's business but I believe he has over-dramatized his role in the affair

If he'd used broken Tinglish there would be someone on Thaivisa saying 'hmm, he's trying way too hard to seem convincing, this all seems too perfect, I don't buy his story'.

Are you beautiful? If so you can't expect to be safe. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thailand-beach-murders-thai-pm-suggests-attractive-female-tourists-cannot-expect-to-be-safe-in-bikinis-9737016.html

@OP I think you'll find most nomads don't pay taxes as you need a work permit to pay taxes, and securing a work permit requires hiring 4 Thais, not something nomads want to do.

Oh Bloody Hell not again!

Not every poster lives on the forum and has their jimmies rustled by this topic to the extent of you.

does it? or should people be respecting the wishes of sean mcanna's family and not mentioning it, retweeting it, screengrabbing it, reposting it and sharing it all over the bloody web?

you can be pretty sure that various law enforcement bodies have the photo, that the british embassy has it and that it'll be acted on. meantime why not do as his family asks until they know for 100% that the lad is out of danger?

He already was out of danger, as per a Richard Barrow tweet 9 hours before your post.

It says on said Facebook page the 'embassy has been informed', apparently.

Well, but Filipinos (and Burma, Lao, Khmer) are not Thai people and nobody asked them to come to work here!

Many illegal workers and visa runners are making jobs reserved to Thais. They are really harming to Thai nation, lowering wages standard and taking out resources.

Thailand actively recruits cheap migrant labor.

Thai unemployment rates are extremely low, 0.7%. No Thais are struggling because of migrant workers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Thailand

Maybe Hannah never left the AC bar, how do they know she left and wasnt carried or forced to go somewhere ?

On that guy's Facebook that Thaivisa is desperate to not let anyone link to in case the forum gets sued, he says Miller didn't leave with the girl, at least ruling out the idea they went to have sex on the beach. More likely she was nabbed inside the bar or right outside trying to go home after the altercation there.

I don't want them to offer a digital nomad visa, it'd be ripe for abuse. They needn't change a thing. It's not that difficult to jump through hoops with TR / Ed visas, passport renewals, etc. Infinitely preferrable to Cambodia. I'm very happy here.

My only motivation for being in these threads is debating the idea that it's illegal. Review my posting history, it's calm and balanced (still in my 20s), no complaining here.