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I've been using Payoneer for a few years now and it's a thousand times better than PayPal. The exchange rates are far better and sending and receiving money are simple.

We bought an LG GN-C422SGCL from Makro, the sticker price was about 12,000 baht (with interest 'free' payments) but the cash price was just under 10,000.

It's an excellent fridge/freezer with the freezer on top. Worth a look as it's a lot of fridge for the money.

1 hour ago, kbb said:

Get a new Vet - FAST.

 

Five years ago, our vet in Pattaya killed our dog. 

 

We had a Chihuahua that started not feeling well.

 

Exam and x-ray. NO BLOOD TEST.

They called it a false pregnancy. 

 

Symptoms came and went for over a month.

 

Finally, the dog was only eating BBQ chicken, and not much of that.

Cut a vacation short, took her to the Vet on Friday.

They said nothing wrong - we were spoiling her. 

 

At some point, most people know their dogs & when there's something wrong ...

 

We took her back the next day - Vet finally did a simple & cheap blood test.

They found related tick disease.

Kept her for treatment - Dog was dead within 3 days.

 

Obviously, I wished we (1) were more informed about Tick related diseases, which are prevalent and deadly in Thailand and (2) that we had changed Vets.

 

Good luck with your dog ...

 

 

 

 

 

I was going to suggest the same, four months ago one of our dogs went off their food and she had a blood check and nothing showed up, a week later we had another blood check and it found two different tick borne parasites in her blood, the first tester was faulty so it didn't show anything.

She's still undergoing treatment and slowly her appetite has returned to normal. We are now more careful with making sure the other dogs get their Bravecto on time.

16 hours ago, Logosone said:

 

Well they don't need to. Get an Android tablet and upload an iOs emulator. Easy peasy.

This is correct, I just checked out some iOS emulators on my phone and my wife's tablet and all of the iOS apps worked perfectly. 

I showed my nephew and he's quite gutted as he worked many long hours in the evenings and on weekends to pay for his iPad.

On 6/1/2021 at 11:09 AM, Maybole said:

Granddaughter is adamant that some programmes from her university (Mae Fah Luang) will work only on IPad and she needs a writing facility to reply to the teacher. I think I am stuck.

I think you are as my nephew also needed an iPad for his university courses. I checked to see if there were alternative apps to use but there weren't, iPad or not passing the year. It's pretty disgusting that poorer students get themselves or their parents into even more debt than needed.

For the paintwork I used cheap margarine, smear some over the tar and leave it for ten minutes and rub off. You may need to repeat it a couple of times but it works really well without damaging the paintwork.

I went through hell a few years ago trying to open a UK bank account after being over here for a few years. Without a lease agreement from a recognised housing association, utility bill etc. no bank would let me open a bank account.

In the end a friend helped me out with a lease agreement saying I was in a bail hostel (the bank worker who had been trying to help me for weeks knew it was rubbish) and the bank's HQ OK'd it. 

British passport and driving license didn't help at all. 

I've bought a couple of phones from BangGood and countless things from AliExpress and never had a problem with anything getting stopped by Customs. 

The only package that was ever stopped was sent by FedEx from China. Customs explained that I needed FDA approval, an import agent and then the 200% taxes too. It's still sitting in the FedEx facility in BKK.

3 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

Do you have an android box attached to your android TV, or have you managed to side load the Live Net TV app onto your android TV.  If you have, how did you do it?  

 

I have an android box attached to my TV, but I can't seem to side load the Live Net TV onto the android TV itself.  

You need to allow "Install apps  from unknown sources.

https://www.howtogeek.com/313433/how-to-sideload-apps-on-android/

1 hour ago, Tyler Visan said:

So come on, tell us all how to make vaping liquid, from what? Tobacco, ganja, tea leaves......

Vegetable Glycerin, Propylene Glycol (both sound yucky but both are used in food manufacturing), nicotine and the desired flavourings. My favourites being mango and vanilla custard.

The Live NetTV app (if you have an Android TV) has a fair amount of Aussie channels. Use an Adblocker such as Blokada and you should be good to go. Another good one is Redbox TV for sports as the streams rarely buffer depending on your internet connection.

BEIN Sports is the only to use. I've been watching their streams through the Redbox TV app on my TV. No buffering and a crystal clear stream. 

I'm feeling much better after reading the comments here, I'm not a fan of air con so I use two fans, cooling powder and plenty of water. My sweaty bum problem definitely improved by using the cooling powder.

One of my garden rocking chairs is rusting from sweaty arms though. It looks nice but next time I'll be buying plastic chairs next time.

Update

I printed out my bank statements and we took it to the IO yesterday, the head man was very understanding as the money was out of the account for less than four minutes and he could see that I deposit 20,000 baht in my wife's account on the 20th of every month to help with household expenses so it was a stupid mistake made by me.

He said it won't be a problem when we apply for the new visa. It's a big worry off my mind and I couldn't be happier with them for their help in this difficult time.

34 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

It seems OP doesn't stay in BKK or in another large city. At several smaller offices you get to know the people after several extensions,90 days reports and other errands. 

You're correct about not living in BKK. The IO in Phatthalung is quite small and the staff have been extremely helpful in the past, they have guided us through the process as much as they could and know that situation is difficult for foreigners here.

My wife and I are heading down tomorrow to find out if they will accept it as a mistake.

50 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

According to the rules it will reset the time. However, it will be depending on your capability to talk for your case, and the IO´s mind of the day.

The IO staff are pretty decent and honest so I think it may work out. The money was out of the account for less than four minutes so it may be OK.

Thanks for the input Matzzon

Thanks ubonjoe. I will print out a statement and head down there as soon as I can. I hope they will understand the mistake as I transferred 20,000 baht minutes after getting the 200,000 baht back.

I've had 400,00 baht in my Kasikorn bank account for my Non-O visa for the past month but this morning I transferred 200,000 baht out of my savings account instead of 20,000 baht out. It was transferred back in within a few minutes so will this affect my application next month?

Any out there know if this will reset the 2 month seasoning of the bank account?

I've also been using the Otto coffee maker for years now and it just does the job.

My favourite coffee is the NLCoffee Espresso Blend 390 baht a kilo;

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/espresso-blend-by-nlcoffee-250-4-i242702588-s372150951.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.13.43d541f2Ha2Xb8&search=1

I bought a cheap grinder and it's been good for two years already.

6 hours ago, HaleySabai said:

I got my 60-day extension in ChiangMai on Friday,arrived at 11am to find 5-people waiting in the entire office! Very pleasant and helpful IMO and completed the process in 15min.

...but that was last week ????

I did mine today in my local office, one and a half hours as we were the first ones there. They didn't even know that the 60-day extension started from the 27th until my wife showed them their own website. ????

I'm hoping that the 1 year extension with 400,000 in the bank for 2 months will be a little more straightforward. 

20 hours ago, Proboscis said:

The trouble with ticks is that it can give your dog tick-fever. The trick is not to let ticks attach onto your dog but to prevent them from every biting. The only thing that works for me (other than Frontline) is Bravecto chews - stop your dog getting bitten the the first place.

We tried many different methods and medicines to get rid of ticks before also using the Bravecto chews. Our youngest dog is too young for it but the other dogs have taken it and the pup never get ticks either.

Unless something has changed in the past couple weeks you'll have to spend a night in Malaysia. See my post here;

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1149422-wang-prachan-satun-border-crossing-warning/#comments