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Totally agree. It's pretty simple. "Oh the poor motorbike rental lady" tough s**t. Sell pad thai or something. Realistically the motorbike rental market would shrink by about 80% if they only rented to tourists with motorbike licenses. The taxis would have a field day. Another thing is the condition of the bikes being rented. Often bald tyres or dodgy engine or brakes. Really though as someone else said people need to take responsibility for themselves.

A "system" like police doing their job enforcing road law would really help. It's a strange concept but whenever I've rented vehicles in Australia they ask for a licence.

The vests cost around 35-40,000 baht. Saw one for sale online once.

When will the phasing out of these neanderthals be complete? During covid they were crying poor us. I really hoped they might learn from it. Here we are again though with the same issues. The fact that they can sit on an armchair all day on the street doing nothing and be financially ok means nothing will ever change. They just need to do 1 or 2 overpriced fares per day and they have already made the minimum thai wage. No skills or any kind of real work needs to be done. Just sit around ripping people off and making the country look bad. I give it 10 years max and the apps will have phased them out

I don't disagree and experience the same things everyday. However I find their riding habits much more predictable than a shirtless tourist with no helmet and sunnies who looks like he's just got on a ride at the show. I feel overtaking them is a risk as they are completely oblivious to what's going on around them half the time.

Regardless of if it was weed or not I support the legalisation of weed but where is the support for addicts when it becomes a problem? For some people or can be incredibly hard to stop even if you want too and there's no filter for that at the moment.

Theres an endless stream of these stories. I don't think it's right to assume that every tourist is inexperienced riding. However lots are and when i see tourists on the road they make me nervous as they're unpredictable. As opposed to Thais who tend to ride in a straight line and check their mirrors. Also the culture here is that it's unfortunately common to use 2 lanes when taking a corner and also commonly accepted that you can just pull out in front of oncoming traffic. Both highly dangerous. So yeh overtaking a truck on the inside taking a corner is rolling the dice with your life.

I saw a girl do a dump in the gutter right out the front of a hotel in soi 6 at about 9am once. She was doing the poo yet I was the one contemplating my life choices in being there.

That's so disappointing. I was looking forward to the roads being clogged up with buses and hordes of loud screaming Chinese tourists pushing and shoving everywhere. Hope you sort it out guys.

Reverse psychology perhaps. They've possibly found an excuse to get more involved

I used to just give her the wallet. Saved me pulling it out all the time or feeling like an ATM on legs. Also solves your problem. Don't try to understand it because there is no logic to be found.

Yeh it's easy to sort out but the fact you even need to get a visa has always been the biggest turn off for me. The place is just as cool as Thailand of not better.

Yeh and that's exactly what I have done. I've included a very similar reference to your point 3. Basically the same except missing the address. For example soi, street, mooban, province etc. This is the same "payment instruction message" as requested by the developer and is written in the contract that i need to include that same message. Which I've done. However my lawyer has contacted scb to enquire about what's needed to get this letter as he says it varies bank to bank which i can understand. However he's got back to me saying they want the complete residential address included which my overseas bank can't do and it doesn't fit in the reference field. Also it would be deviating from the message the contract says i need to follow exactly. So at the moment: My lawyer just refers me to my overseas bank. The developer - not really in their job description to sort out people's individual issues. Scb - i want to go and talk to them myself but can't get to the branch for a week due to work. This is probably the logical next step. I may get a different answer from them to the lawyer I'm hoping but if they really insist on a full address then I have no idea what the next step would be. I could try to "escalate" as you suggest which sounds nice in theory but that just means calling the manager over and talking to them instead. I'm not sure how i could escalate any higher than that.

I forgot to mention I transferred from my overseas bank into my Thai account then to the developer account.

I'm going out of my mind. I've transferred the first payment to the developer for the purchase of a condo. I included the exact payment instruction message that was requested in the contract. Meaning in the reference feild I have included "for the purchase of condo xxxx in xxxxx condominium project". After this my lawyer has gone to the bank to ask about getting the required Letter from the bank. Then he has come back to me saying the bank wants the full address somehow attached to the transaction (it doesn't fit in the reference field obviously). I contacted my overseas bank they are confused about this and never heard of anyone attaching a whole paragraph description to a transaction. When i mention this to lawyer he just says they (overseas bank) need to do it even though i clearly tell him that's not an option. So now I have already paid quote alot and have more payments due soon. In my brain worst case scenario is I lose all the money I've paid already because the developer has it and i can't get the required Letter. Really concerned but anytime i talk to lawyer or developer everyone seems pretty chilled like there's not even an issue. Starting to lose my patience a bit. So looking for any solution or someone familiar with this issue

I had a driver with a tablet strapped to his sunshade. Doing about 130 from pattaya to bkk and he is buying line stickers through the shop. Really important stuff.

I think scb will do the same soon. I logged into their crappy excuse for a website the other night and noticed it now suggests using the app

I got nothing since 4th Feb. No response to this thread? Strange

I always notice a place on the left in the alley before bkk hospital because it's a large area at up for testing with cones and stuff. I looked on maps. The place is called advance driving school Pattaya. They do cars and bikes. That's all i know.

Thanks for the replies. So I simply transfer the funds from foreign currency into the receiving account where it will be converted to baht. Then I need to visit the bank only after the funds have arrived and request an FET form and that's it. Done? That's how I am understanding it? There was another thing called credit advice that was mentioned. What is it? Do I need it? I also thought it best to transfer the funds to my own account then disperse them as needed as it is a number of different payments. Yet my legal advisor said in this case it would be better to deposit directly. I feel like then I will be unable to get the FET which is needed. Also i'm not sure I will be able to see the converted figure anywhere as it's not my account. I will ask the bank tomorrow.

I'm having trouble understanding the steps involved. Particularly in regards to the documents and who gets them and when and what they are. I've heard of FET and "credit advice". At the moment I know I need to transfer the cash to a developers local account. But I don't know if I need to contact the local bank first or get any documents prior or what the process is to get those documents after. I have heard that should I want to move these funds back out of Thailand in the future then I would need to produce some kind of document from when they were originally transferred into Thailand. I believe the developer may also require some of these documents for their records. I asked the developer and my legal advisor but everyone is pretty chill about it and not really giving me the answers i'm looking for, which is basically the process step by step. It seems important and I don't want to screw it up.

Apparently not. Theres a few shops selling them

Apparently if u honk your horn to let others know your running the red it is ok

Yeh they basically do nothing and expect 1 months rent as payment for bringing a generic contract to a signing and not much else

I recently paid a reservation fee for an off plan condo. The due diligence report came back stating there was a risk due to low company capital of just 6 million thai baht. There was also an issue of the last financial report not being lodged apparently due to waiting for some transactions to finalise first. They have since pointed out that they have a much larger company with 100 million capital, which seems to be correct and they reference it as related across their marketing however on paper it is actually not the actual development company in charge of the project. Despite them saying the smaller company is "under" the much larger company I don't think it makes any legal difference. Can anyone share some figures of what the development companies capital was in projects that they have been a part of. Thanks