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Looks like less traffic, may be seasonal. The last hickups happened over the holidays. Crossing fingers,

They try to screw you, bought some Baht today in CNX. First one put 900B on top of the advertised price, dude standing next said "finish",  that was probably meant to mean for workship....for a bar :-). Left with a "mai pen rai". 

Rip offs are easy to spot. A bit of margin for jewelry is ok, but not for ready made bars. You should get it for the advertised price, slightly more is ok. Got 4 glasses as "present" :-)

5 Baht seem to be in a bit of shortage, needed 5 shops today to find. Insist in certificate/guarantee, at least some paper from the shop, so you can sell it back to them hassle free in the future.

4 hours ago, Chiengmaijoe said:

It says you're an alien!!

 

Exactly, General Alien even, can't make this up

22xxx per Baht. Can check at http://www.goldtraders.or.th

On 7/29/2016 at 10:46 PM, JAS21 said:

Actually the Speed Savings ... which is basically a current account needs 1Mthb to get the 1.6%

Below 1mTHB it's 1% for preferred accounts. Not much difference anyway. Fixed/saving deposits are no longer of interest.

Interest rates of Islamic Bank (highest in country AFAIK) as of 19/8/2016
3 months: 1.35%
6 months: 1.5%
12 months: 1.9%
24 months: 2.0%

That's it for me and fixed deposits, bought gold today with the matured funds (part of). One last deposit running at 2.6% till next year.

Disaster looming. And then you have the agents. 

Give them a ring, easy as that. They moved us from BKK to CNX, great team. Inclusive packing and god knows. Recommended.

People suggested to register a SIM in the name of your dog. Not me, just saying

There is one Gym down Canal Rd, after 121 turns East. Just had fun with the girls in one of the bars there  this week. Small thing, stupid game, great fun 

I said that when these news appeared first. It's a smooth way to gain more control and nobody realizes it. 

There is no cheap helpful agent. It's just sand in your eyes.

Just give them another phone number on the next extension. It's all so silly BS. How can they, or even imagine to, run a country?!

We have something to talk about, now look back at the real big deals, the big firewall, the China train, the submarines.....and don't kill the messenger....that nuclear power plant....all bogus. They bought some bomb detectors. Let the kids play

Tracking is part of the GSM standard, 25 y/o. It was just not implemented by the operators as it is too costly. That's why you never get a lost phone back. Now NBTC changes all that

Phones are cheap here. You don't need a China made iPhone to play Pokemon

They renovated and extended the old office, not that it would help much, but that's as it was run for years.

It's just complete rubbish, firstly it can't technically be done, secondly there are other ways to avoid expensive roaming costs, such as FB, Line or Skype and Wifi is everywhere, thirdly damage has been done again and tourists go elsewhere. 

5 minutes ago, malt25 said:

"Thailand approves plans to track tourists' phones"

NBTC does not approve any such thing, they are regulator, not legislator. 

Just now, JustNo said:

Can anybody enlighten me and show me another country EVER that has done this to foreigners? I mean exactly this with sim-cards. Because we know places such as Nazi Germany have done something similar .. 

They were ahead of their time probably.....SIM cards in Nazi Germany....what did you smoke?

1 hour ago, Kinnock said:

I think we're all missing the point of this proposal.  If you are in the mobile phone industry, then a proposal that could force all tourists to buy a particular SIM card plan is a good money spinner.

Nobody buys a SIM, they come for free and are already registered because you need to show some ID for the last 2...3 years. So this is all just for tin hats.

BBC picked it up already, so did some other international media in the western hemisphere where people are concerned about such things. Much damage done here as always from autocrats, even though it is not only technically impossible to implement such things properly. 

Came in through BKK 2 days ago, thanks to that Codeshare BS from BKK Air, could not check through from Garuda. Anyways, no such forms.

I don't get that point with the lawyer that comes up all the time again. These useless bloodsuckers are good for only one thing, suck your blood.

The land paper for a condo is not called Chanot, it has some other name. But it is basically the same thing and looks the same. If you can't read Thai you will not be able to tell a difference.