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Sounds great for the Government in priciple. But how many more customs officers will then need to calculate all these few baht duty for each shipment and are they suddenly expecting all the carriers to collect the duty for them! I expect chaos to ensue before the policy is reversed.

La Cremery. Good fresh sour dough all baked on premisis. My goto bread shop.

So what happens to anyone buying a condo. Has the price just gone up by 20/30% or whatever, thats going to have a pretty big impact on the new condo market!

I feel a crackdown coming on!

Pity as Pattaya is just starting to get back to fun city.

I am currently having an issue with Thai customs and I wonder if anyone can tell me who is correct.

Last year I purchase two limited edition items in the UK (what they are is immaterial). They were only charged to my credit card and shipped to me last month. They already have the suppliers invoice and my credit card bill showing the matching date and amount. The price can be confirmed on several independent web sites as RRP (Recommended retail price).

However due to the limited availability of these items, scalpers are advertising identical items for roughly twice the price already on various sites.

Thai customs want to charge me duty on the price now being asked by the scalpers rather than the price I paid.

My question, should I pay duty on the proven price I paid or the current perceive value! These are collectors items and I have no intention of reselling them and it strikes me that customs are asking for duty on a perceived profit which I won't realise and (to me) they shouldn't be asking for, as most imports are marked up and resold in Thailand without customs asking for a share of the profit.

At the end of the day, they hold my shipment and I will probably have to suck it up and pay anyway. But I would like to know if people think I am right or not! (It makes me feel a bit better)

I had a problem with the fact your wallet has a fund limit which isn't mentioned.

Dec I ordered about 7K of stuff for me - No problem.

Week later I ordered 3 Oculus Quests for my 3 sons at Christmas - total 47K

After I placed the order my Lazada wallet took the 47K but I couldn't pay the supplier with the funds.

It turns out that Lazada wallet has a 50K per month max (which isn't mentioned anywhere on the site). But the really galling part was Lazada took my 47K then wouldn't pay the supplier then told me the money was frozen till January. So this left me trying to find another 47K to pay the supplier for my Kids presents and 47K locked in my wallet which I didn't need any more.

Last time I ever use Lazada!

I wonder what all the gaming platforms are going to do! My Kids buy Robux and Vbucks using Mums Paypal (with her permissions) as they can't use my English Paypal. It's going to cost the companies some serious revenue unless they provide another payment route.

Thanks for the info. Yes got it running in a browser on my TV eventually. (Not ideal)

Don't have a play box as I was told it would work on my Samsung TV with the AIS play app.

Obviously lost in translation somewhere. TiT

At least the kids can now watch Disney so I will wait and see what happens. The Mrs says lots of people are complaining about the fact it doesn't work natively on smart TV's.

Has anyone with a Samsung Smart TV (Which has the AIS Play app built in) managed to get Disney+ to work!

3hrs on the phone to AiS this morning and they don't seem to be able to tell me if this will work. We have signed up and it works on my phone (via a web browser but not the Disney+ app) and my laptop (again via the web page only, but thats it!

They won't admit it but I suspect the built in app won't work for some reason. Has anyone got this to work! Is it working for anyone on the AIS play box!

Only in Thailand would a company launch a new TV service that doesn't work on the TV!

4 Kids in a reasonable school , 2 Cars and quality family health insurance pushed my spending north of 5m a year!

20 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

The manufacturing plant here is new to producing vaccines.  Makes me a bit nervous, especially when established plants in the US, making the J&J jab, just dumped 15MM doses due to a mixup.

Please replace bit with very. The words <deleted> up and brewery come to mind for some reason!

I bought direct from hubitat in the USand it arrived in 2 weeks no issue at all. Just select which z wave frequency and plug you want. I use uk.

Take a look at Hubitat. Its very flexible. No subscrition and it runs everything local which is great in thailand. It also has a huge helpfull active community and development team. My house is totally automated based on this.

Yes it is. Just setup a trading account with an online broker like Swissbank but there are plenty of others. It takes a week or two then my first deposit had to come from my UK acount but after that its up to you.

Macro! Cant remember the brand but nice flavour and I think 450b/Kg We use in a Bean to cup Machine.

I don't worry about it. Someone else said it is what it is, but a quick sum in my head puts it north of 5 milliom baht! Still recon its a better place to be than UK.