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That's nonsense , my friend arrived in Phuket on September 14 on Visa exempt . We went to the Bangkok Bank in Patong and opened an account , no insurance required , although they did try and sell him it but he declined. He then transferred 900,000 from Australia and went to immigration to apply for a Non O while still having 15 days left on his 30 day Visa.

Yes that is correct and also with Toyota , my brother was a Toyota salesman for about 40 years and he would sell new cars at cost price to get those sales figures up to reach the monthly sales target , he use to give me 13% off a new car as that was the profit margin

I have thought about using Roojai , they give really cheap quotations , are they OK ?

The score now stands at Thais : 3,456,264 Farang : 2

That is incorrect , if it has less than 4 bedrooms it does not need a hotel license. Although having said this I am totally against this idea of renting out through Airbnb , one of our close neighbors does it and it has totally ruined my retirement plans. We now have minibus's turning up at our once before peaceful location every day full of noisy Indians ect.

"Come down with your hands up and your wallet out"

That is not at all possible in Phuket , there you the seller must provide a signed copy of there current visa , if they have left the country and the visa has expired then absolutely they will not transfer to the new owner. I have had this happen to me twice , once a few years, i bought a Fortuner from a British national who had a holiday home here but lived in Hong Kong. He sold me his car and i did in fact have all the correct signed papers , Department of transport two forms being the POA and the transfer form both signed , copy of the sellers passport and visa . The problem i had his 30 day visa on arrival had expired by the time i got around to transferring it into my name and there was no chance of them doing the transfer. I tried everything but came up against a brick wall , they insisted he must come back to Thailand with a current visa. Then last year i bought a house from people from Norway who had left the country 2 years previously , the house came with there Toyota Avensis , i sent all the forms to them in Norway and they sent everything back with signed passport , but because there last visa to Thailand had expired again the DOT would not do the transfer insisting the owner of the car return to Thailand with a current visa stamp .

I have lived in Patong since 2001 but my Villa is very high up in mountain above Patong. It's a very quiet location , cant here nothing at night , but when these fireworks continually go off for 6 hours every night they echo right up through the mountain.

Anybody else experancing noisy fireworks that start around 8 pm and continually go on every night until about 2.30 am . This has been going on now for about the past 2 to 3 months somewere in the middle of the south end of Patong beach. There is obviously someone selling fireworks down there to tourists , I live up high in the hills above Patong and the noise is driving me mad. This use to go on the same about 5 years ago before the government stopped it as it was illegal , now its happening all over again.

You obviously have no idea about automotuve paint systems and how temperature and humidity can affect the shade. Hence why there are so many vehicles driving around with slightly differant colour doors , wings and other body panels from the rest of the car in Thailand. Maybe you haven't noticed but I see them every day.

Well I have to say I totally agree with her demands , she should without question receive a brand new car. Being in the used car business for 50 years and being brought as the son of a large car repair garage , I was involved in repairing damaged cars as young as 9 years old. That car will never be the same and especially in Thailand its second hand value will plummet about 40% after being involved in an accident. All that damage will be recorded on the database of the manufacturers computers along with a full list of parts that were used to repair it. Anyone can check that database by going to the dealership and giving the VIN number. Its impossible to get the paint back to the original manufacturers standard and here in Thailand there is no doubt that the colour will not match 100%. So to a trained eye , it would be obvious it's been in an accident and repaired. No Thai will want to buy that car because that are paranoid about cars that have been involved in any kind of accident. That poor lady has done absolutely nothing to be put through this ordeal , her car will be off the road for months until this is all sorted out and she will still be having to make payments. She certainly deserves a brand new car in my opinion.