Keesters

6 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Masks do nothing, thankfully many Thais and farang are realizing this and taking the proper course of action or is that in-action....

They certainly don't when you've been using the same one for weeks and all it does or can do is cover your chin. 

11 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Make it compulsory for all thais, returning back to Thailand to have 2 vaccines and test negative before travelling.

I agree the rules should be the same. 

11 hours ago, RafPinto said:

2 vaccines before travelling, a negative test before travelling, a test, once you arrive in Thailand but they still accuse us of transmitting the virus.

Because even with all you mention transmission of the virus is still possible. 

Is scamming a tourist seen as part of Thai culture? It certainly happens frequently enough. 

Is jumping a red light part of Thai culture or is it that red lights aren't so it's OK to ignore them. 

Just what defines Thai culture except for a sense of me, me, me above all others?

2 minutes ago, david555 said:

? You dont have family or friends in your ex Home country could send one ? 

 

I just kept my more than 25 year old number alive when moving Thailand ,and  anytime i login on PayPal they send the code to that dumb phone who hold that sim as before (only switch on when needed of course ) which i fill in online and i am in PayPal

Not so easy for those who have been here over 30 years. Parents, siblings, friends all gone now.

What I'm thinking of writing would get me banned. Please be assured though that it is being thought and spoken VERY LOUDLY and has caused neighbors to come and ask if I'm OK.

2 hours ago, arick said:

You can pay out but not recieve money  or hold a balance. So basucly only pay for goods via PayPal using a card 

 

Yes I missed that. The article is overly biased, as are the comments, about recieving funds. Took a good read of the PayPal website to confirm your post. Still need to confirm identity though. So PayPal is not a total loss. Just half of one.

7 minutes ago, david555 said:

Something wrong with your quoting posts ? as mine looks empty ,while it was not....

Not me as can be seen here. There was a glitch as I posted and said system was offline and to retry. I did and the result was WYSee.

4 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Virtual I expect!

Your probably right. Some time ago I paid a Thai website for something I wanted using transfer from my account to theirs. Got no reply, no goods, total silence. When i went to their website to check it was offline. I checked the domain name. Expired a day after i ordered. Contacted kasikorn. Nothing we can do they said. Add 300+ baht to the Thai scam account. 

1 hour ago, MeHere said:

I use both Transferwise (now called Wise) and XE... Wise is much quicker (sometimes under 5 minutes), especially on weekends, and the credit card is a bonus. XE is good too, if you're not in a hurry.

Wise CC not available for Thailand. 

1 hour ago, david555 said:

 

They are virtual CREDIT CARDS. 

1 hour ago, david555 said:

My PayPal works still same way as from beginning , even i do not live my home country no more since 2013   my account is still alive on that address  as i kept my E.U. tel. number alive ...

So not an Thai PayPal account but a E.U. one 

Then totally irrelevant to this thread which is about PayPal THAILAND. 

5 hours ago, edwardFuture said:

This is to discourage people working illegally here. I hope Wise follows too. For instance by allowing transfers from and to bank accounts under the same name only and with work permit.

PayPal is extremly useful in paying for items ordered overseas. Using PayPal restricts the number of places that you've used your credit card to ONE, PayPal. It also has great consumer protection. They've always credited me when I've notified that ordered goods never arrived. Great service until now with no known equal. Time you thought out of the box and not just your own little life. 

4 hours ago, Galong said:

They are expensive to use. Thailand isn't putting them out of business... just guiding them towards the door. They can turn if they want.  They have competition that is better.  They could evolve with the times, but if they don't, so be it.  ????

Give me an alternative that has payment options on thousands of eCommerce websites. Basically it's PayPal or credit card. I prefer to limit the number of places and times my credit card is used on the internet to ONE. 

2 hours ago, atpeace said:

I personally love the unhygienic markets.  I would be living in another country if sanitation was a major concern.  

I do too to a certain degree. But at the moment I feel they are unsafe covid wise. Too much space given to stalls and not enough to shoppers resulting in stallholders sitting pretty with 2 meters or more free air around them while shoppers are bumping into each other all the time. 

Some of my best memories are of Bangkok's weekend market when it was on Sanam Luang (Sanam Luang Flea Market). 

19 hours ago, wombat said:

Pattaya is chockers with domestic tourists at the moment...its got me beat what  they do but the traffic here says they are here

They drive around looking to find a place open then drive some more looking for somewhere to park. Hence the traffic. 

21 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Hard if you have a Thai wife,gik, or girlfriend.

 

....Or all three.

You don't have to go along. But of course you may still suffer from whatever your partner(s) brings back with them. 

I've not had physical contact with my grandson since April because his grandmother, with whom he stays, refuses to stop visiting these unhygienic markets. She says things like, "but they've all been cleaned" to which I reply "after they were found to be dirty". 

2 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

It's not only that.

 

Thailand isn't really hygiene orientated.

Huge markets never have soap or toilet paper in there bathrooms.

 

Washing hands after taking a duece isn't really a Thai thing.

Which is why I never visit them. I'll stick to the malls and the supermarkets inside them. 

21 hours ago, Chad3000 said:

I've only transited through. Slept near bus station once, plane to BKK once. 30 years in E Asia.

 

This place is legion for scams and tight immigration.

 

No idea why people visit and live here. It's almost a tacit acceptance to be abused and ripped off.

I haven't been abused or ripped off in 3.5 of my last 4 decades here. It's a learning curve. In fact the last person to cause me major trouble was a farang who reversed his car into me. He denied doing it. The police soon sorted him out . 

5 hours ago, daveAustin said:

No big deal. The place is still closed in all but name and everyone's wearing masks, right?

Still see plenty of farang not wearing or incorrectly wearing masks.