CMTourist

Well I installed the 2 TB drive this weekend. Couldn't have been easier. Took about 10 minutes.

Now redownloading all my games. Not the fun part.

Celebrated by pre-ordering every big game coming out to the end of the year as now I don't need to worry about storage space!

They sell 2tb 2.5" external usb3 drives.

https://www.jib.co.th/web/index.php/product/listCategory/2/923/0/

Check model on internet and I don't think they have non standard bigger than 9.5mm harddrive inside these boxes.

You can simply buy one, let them disassemble and put inside ps4.

You can use 500gb internal drive of PS4 back into this usb 3 external box and you got yourself a nice 500gb external drive (after partition removal and format)

I rwad the usb interface on that drive doesnt work with the SATA interface on the PS4

Went round MBK and Pantip. They only upgrade to 1TB drive as the 2TB 9.5 mm drive isnt sold in Thailand.

No seller in the US or UK will ship to Thailand so I asked a friend in the US to order and ship to me

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Momentus-SpinPoint-ST2000LM003-Notebook/dp/B00I8O6OQ4/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1GV4DXS40X1A5

That sounds like a question you should have asked your importer before you ordered?

 

 

The guy told me Porsche has the diagnostic machine and can do the work and the original importer will service as well.

 

Just wondering if anyone has one and has any first hand experience (rather than just hearing from the seller)

I've ordered one. Not sold here so imported.

Anyone have one?

Its basically the Porsche Cayenne Hybrid mechanically, any issues with servicing as its not sold here?

Looking forward to doing 0-100 in 5.8 seconds in an SUV!

Any stores in Bangkok do it?

I know its supposed to be easy but I'd rather have someone do it

I Bought a " Samsung galaxy S2 a couple of years ago in MBK ( Bangkok ) and have had " nothing but problems " I went to speak to the Samsung service centre in Pattaya who were excellent and very polite and helpful. Who then looked at my phone and said " never buy phones from MBK" they said that my phone was not made for Thailand and it needed a new " motherboard " ( Thailand ) at a cost of 5,000 baht!

I had a Note 2 bought at MBK. After about 6 months it suffered from "Sudden Death Syndrome", a known flaw with chips in the phone. I took it to the Samsung repair center at Pantip and they said it was from UAE so they wouldn't fix it.

I won't buy again from MBK and I'm not impressed with Samsung's warranty policy. They should honor the warranty on a MOBILE device wherever you happen to be.

So what is this percentage that the condo new and used is overpriced in Bangkok? My guess is 45% new and 35% used. If the shtf you could lower both by 10-15%.

There is just a ton of land in Bangkok. Condos could be built non stop for decades.

20000 condos on Rachada corridor.

Even if the land was free prices couldn't fall that much as land is typically 20-25% of the sales price of a condo. Construction is a much bigger component and that is rising, plus the interest on the loans during construction and the sales and marketing cost, taxes and fees, etc which don't disappear.

Bangkok is extremely cheap compared to other capital cities in SE Asia. The big developers are operating on gross margins (i.e. cost of land plus building) of only 30-35% and net margins of 10-15%. So prices aren't much greater than replacement cost

Ordinarily I would say its nonsense to even think its at risk.

Then the word Cyprus pops in to my mind and I can't be 100% sure.

I'm stil 99.999% sure though!

add a packet of ketchup to hot water......tomato soup.

I was once told by a restaurant owner in a backpacker area of Chiang Mai that the reason there were no ketchup bottles on the table is because the backpackers stole them to take back to their guesthouse rooms to make tomato soup.

Perhaps he shouldn't have blamed the backpackers, but some of his more frugal expat regulars!

How bizarre.

That resembles Chiang Mai in no way at all. "The first thing one notices driving into the Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai from the airport at night are the bargirls." Really? Where? I'm trying to think which direction he could have driven that the first he noticed was the bar girls. Can't think of a single route where that's the first thing he would see.

"with shuttered storm fronts, weathered buildings and desolate factories testifying to its backwater status." Again, where on earth is he going in the city that he sees this?

This entire piece is a work of fiction by someone who maybe visited as a backpacker in 1989

I believe the question you're really asking is, will your boyfriend leave you for a Thai girl, given all the offerings and distractions?

The answer is, it depends; on the well-being of your relationship, and where you choose to stay.

Stay out of the touristy areas in Bangkok / Chiang-Mai and you should generally be ok.

Except he will be interacting with women everywhere, supermarket checkout girls, bank tellers, etc. There are many that flirt and many that don't care if a man is married.

A man that never in a million years would take a bar girl may be vulnerable to a "good girl" working at a regular job that flirts with him

Normally 7500-8500 a month

December was 4600

If you buy from a publicly listed developer its not risky. Buying from a private developer is very risky as you could lose all the money you put down.

The payment of 30% is not a law its a matter for the developer alone.

Either through wanting to avoid the inconvenience or worry about the safety.

I live near Asoke. I'm seriously considering leaving Bangkok tonight just to be better safe than sorry.

Anybody else thinking of doing the same?

Let me get this straight, some guy who is by his own admission not well off, thinks he knows better than 2 people who are well off enough to retire in a foreign country and own properties in other countries, how they should be spending their money?

Do you advise women on how they should handle their pregnancy and give birth as well, since you seem to be an expert on all things on which you have no direct experience?

The rich and powerful will "negotiate" a payment with the revenue department. The middle classes and property owning poor will be the only ones to pay

KTB another one that has worked fine for me in England, France, US, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau.

Didn't have to authorise either. The credit card I had to authorise though (after discovering it didn't work on first trip after getting it)

Its a shop that specialises in imported goods for foreigners.

Its expensive, but that doesn't make it a ripoff.

Some are willing to pay for the convenience. Others will make trips to different markets to buy different things at cheaper prices.

I like that it exists but I'm in the camp that only buys things that I can't get elsewhere there

Supalai recently announced that prices for land in good locations in Chiang Mai are the same as in Bangkok. Condos are selling for 60-70,000 Baht per square meter. Again, Bangkok prices. They also announced it was cheaper to build in Bangkok as materials are cheaper as that's where most of them are produced.

Greater Bangkok has a population of near 14 million and is the center of government, finance, business, education and every other sector of the Thai economy.

Chiang Mai is maybe half a million if you include the surrounding villages and has no leading economic sector.

I don't see Chiang Mai prices as rational based on these comparisons alone.

However, I do think there is real unmet demand, I just think developers are getting ahead of it and there could be a bust coming until the current builds are mopped up by demand growth

When people are surveyed and offered the choice of earning 100 dollars and their neighbor earning 90, or earning 110 dollars and their neighbor earning 120, people overwhelmingly choose to earn 100 dollars rather than 110, just so long as they have more than their neighbor.

I too am surprised at the seeming hatred espoused by so many at every opportunity that the Thais are corrupt, lazy, can't do anything right and everything is about to collapse at every moment as its all built on lies or built wrong because it was built by stupid lazy corrupt Thais.

I think a lot of these people want to feel superior to their Thai neighbors, but as Thailand develops (and they get relatively and possibly absolutely poorer) that sense of superiority they used to feel is lost and they're desperate to have it back so they hope and pray for a Thai economic collapse and see signs of its impending arrival everywhere they look.

Up until a few years ago 80% of the condos in Chiang Mai had been built before 1997.

This is likely just a rebound from so many years of suppressed building.

Same for shopping malls, until recently not a single new one since 1997.

Extraordinary when you consider the money pumped in to infrastructure, which usually triggers enormous new development elsewhere in Thailand

I have only been here for 7 years the only infrastructure improvement I have seen is they buried some over head wiires on Changklang and Thai Pa road.

O wait the internet has improved does that count.

but I did here of some road work being done once some where along the river and they tore down a foot bridge across the river.

Yes, 7 years isn't the same as the 16 since 1997 and considering when Chiang Mai's favorite son was ousted, isn't enough to know how much infrastructure has been built in that period.

Since you're aware of your own lack of knowledge, why did you post?

I at least acknowledged a little bit of work.

You just assume that time automatically improves things. Check out the old city drive up to the zoo or Niehmanhamin I seriously doubt that any thing has been done in the last 16 years there. I also believe that they did improve one highway interchange. Try driving down the east side of the river from the Narwwhat bridge to the super highway.

Don't stop to quickly you might break some ones nose.

I don't assume time automatically improves things. I KNOW what has been built in the last 16 years.

You have already admitted you don't have the knowledge and that you only stay in your own little area and therefore have no idea of the massive infrastructure buildout that has occured in Chiang Mai in the last 16 years, so why do you keep posting?

Its not helping advance the discussion for those of us who really do have an interest in whether Chiang Mai is being overbuilt and is in a property bubble and have the knowledge to at least begin a rational assessment.