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I just did it now, he sells them for $1.70 x 68, should be $115 but I had to pay the fees (5%) so paid $121 to him on Paypal
bought at 58.87 baht, sold at 74.67 (you get 64.94 each after fees)

paid 4002 baht, got 4415. so +413 baht.

seems like a lot of work but that literally took me 5 minutes and it's +10%..
the price in Thailand is much lower than it is back home so it's win win.

got monies for the 2018 Winter Sale next month now.

what I personally do (and it's quite a bit of a work around) is buy Team Fortress 2 keys using Paypal from some guy in my friends list then I sell them on the marketplace for more than i bought them for

I reckon he sells them for $1.80 USD (59 baht?) each and you can sell them for 75, you get 67.5 baht per after Steam takes its 10% share.

I do have a debit card that I can use as credit card here but still use it this way because I get like 14% more funds that way.

https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/440/Mann Co. Supply Crate Key

 

1 minute ago, Ctkong said:

Copy2SIM is for android phones only. iPhone do not support contacts from phone to sim only from sim to phone. Correct? 

if you have an iphone you should save your contacts to icloud

https://www.icloud.com/contacts

10 hours ago, digger70 said:

Nothing is effective if one doesn't follow trough ,Impound the dog /cats/ keep them for 4 weeks like the pounds in Australia, if Nobody owns up to own the animal and pay a Fee they ALL get exterminated

absolutely and I would reckon that 10 days or 2 weeks would be even better.

and tag the dogs that DO get claimed by "owners", if they come back a second time. nope

you can get some Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 bluetooth (doesn't have to be bluetooth, they are also wired) for about 11,900 baht and those are the exact ones i have for my PC, i looked it up i think it was called appaccthai

wouldn't get a console personally, you could play any PS2 game you want and some PS3 or all the Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, other older systems and thousands of other games on Steam (or pirated) on a proper PC and do all the other things ofc

I'd assume that getting your hands on US sourced purifiers filters might be a bit of a headache as well.. unless of course you buy a bunch of them along with it.

that is only if they would even work down there, would need a voltage switching power brick input

On 10/26/2018 at 4:04 PM, mrmillersr said:

Seriously, if you are so into exercise and I assume your health, why in the world would you want to move to Chiang Mai?  It's about the same as someone worrying about getting lung cancer who takes up smoking.  Unless you've got one hell of a good reason to move here - don't.  Second thought, there are no good reasons so skip the last comment.

I agree with this, being into fitness myself i gave up on anything north of Lampang, i lived in Pai for a year and just the walk outside had me feeling ill, when you are used to exercising your lungs are stronger and will get MORE pm2.5 from the air compared to normal people and that is not good, i had to leave and i ain't going anywhere near those places.

3 minutes ago, johng said:

You got this certificate from Jomtien immigration ???  

I posted a scan of one I got a few years ago got from Jomtien  it  makes no mention of  drivers licence etc...this August there was still no mention of  drivers licence...so if it mentions a "purpose"

now its something new  from the Jomtien immigration.

 

not from Jomtien but the OP is in Bangkok so I'm not sure how this is relevant.
 

4 hours ago, johng said:

 

 

Where does it say that ?
The certificate I got in August makes no mention of using it to get a car/bike licence they did ask the purpose but it was not stated on the certificate...if a "purpose" is stated on the certificate now then its something new.

nope, I had to get three of them one time

one for selling bike

one for buying bike

one for drivers license

I gave the wrong one (because I can't read Thai) and the guy said "cannot use this one is for drivers license"

had to ask him which one was the one for selling because it had to be EMS to the buyer

2 hours ago, dallen52 said:

Just an update..General. 

Rocked up at Jomtien to get a certificate of residence. 

 

Because they say you need one to sell a car now.

I haven't had to have one before. 

The Buyer yes.

 

Anyway. 

Need the cars blue book or bikes green book. 

In order to get certificate. 

So another trip required. 

 

Jomtien immigration 8/11.

Rules of the day.

 

And still charging 300 per copy.

and let me guess, no receipt?

consider yourself lucky, they charge 500 baht in Phetchaburi. no receipts either. (because it should be free)

and if you are in a bind the police can make one for you for 1000 baht

take a word template, write a few words on it, print and stamp

On 11/6/2018 at 1:57 PM, dallen52 said:

Any one care to offer any updates to the article?

 

I'm selling a car Friday farang to farang.

All is good.

He has driven the car, I have sat with him and we had a cuppa and then I gave him a few days to do his stuff and checks.

No pressure.

 

I was told that it's only the buyer who has to provide a certificate of residence. 

And me to provide the blue book and copy of my id passport etc.

The registration is just paid for another year. 

He understands that the 1st class insurance policy expires in 10 days.

 

I will go with him to land transport. 

 

* when I bought it, it was a massive delay using an agent and changing the plates from Bangkok to Pattaya. 

Plus 5200 fees.

A previous post from me tells the story. 

 

I'm confident we have enough brains to do it ourselves and save a few thousand baht. 

 

Appreciate the feedback and any downloadable pages anyone can offer.

 

I have never sold a car but sold many bikes and 100% of the time they asked for a certificate of residence, this is including both farang to farang AND farang to Thai.

if you have a work permit you "might" be fine. don't quote me on that but I was sold a bike from a farang in BKK with only a copy of her work permit along with the signed docs and green book

always liked this picture.

wipe out rabies in dogs, sure.. how about all other animals that have it?

it will do nothing to prevent the overpopulation of those mangy (and some of them ferocious) pack of dogs everywhere.

even if they were to sterilize ALL the soi dogs today, it would take 10 years before most of them would pass away and by then there would have been other ones dumped from owners that would have taken their places and not sterilized

I know this is like 8 months ago but I lived in Pai during the burning season and it was a total crapshoot. compare those 3 pictures taken from behind the house I was renting..
the last 2 pictures were taken the same day but the one with the sun behind the mountain was at early morning and I've added a little black line where the mountain is supposed to be.

I am a quite fit individual, I used to run all the time.. I stopped since I came here because soi dogs would not leave me alone but..

the results of being active made my lungs "better" but this was my downfall in Pai.

walking the 3km walk into town during the start of the burning season would have me practically wheezing and out of breath.. then it got 4-5x worse in the 200s and 400s and I didn't even want to go outside anymore

I remember someone on Facebook at the time kept telling us it would happen but was mostly ignored and lot of people telling him to F off and insult him, i paid attention, he was right.. and it was much worse than he was predicting.
people there just kept doing this:



I left in early April I think and I will never go back there during that season and avoid most of the North of Lampang as well.

hmm, at this time on 1,000,000 baht to buy you would "lose" 1600 baht or so
 

changing to USDT and back on Binance would get you for 0.1% (not 1%, 0.1%) each way (so 1000 baht to buy USDT, 1000 to buy BTC back)

and then getting it out through multiple transfers should be roughly the same cost as getting it in

however, you can get your USDT when bitcoin is higher and then buy BTC when it's low IE: sell btc at 6600 rebuy at 6500 is a 1.5% gain on ANY amount. (ok, 1.499%) which would give you +10,000 thb every time you do it

but sure, it's about 5000 baht all in. not exactly cheap but you can also try your luck with the bank or big bags of cash.

edited in:

just so it's clear, the "fees" mentioned above are:

1. difference in price between current price and price they are selling at
2. 0.1% fee from Binance to trade into USDT

3. 0.1% fee from Binance to trade back to BTC

4. difference in price from buyer wanting to buy and current price

and if anyone is interested, total length of this process is:

about 5-10 minutes per transaction to acquire it
1 hour to get it to Binance. (btc transaction time)
instant trade to USDT

+ (uncertain amount of time before you need it back)

instant trade to BTC

1 hour to get it to localbitcoins (btc transaction time)
5-10 minutes each transactions

however, if anyone decides to do this with very large amounts, say 100,000 USD then you might not WANT people to send you 100 transactions of 1000 as that might trigger some kind of spanish inquisition via the bank
for that amount of money, i would travel to a major city and meet someone that trades large amount in person and has 100% feedback on the site
 

Just now, jesimps said:

if you bought Bitcoin through a broker here, then I assume that if you wanted to change your coins for UK pounds, then you'd have to register with a broker in UK? I can envisage all sorts of problems with them wanting local address, bank etc. I could be wrong, but interesting to know for future reference.

none of this

you make a transfer or cash deposit (or even cash delivery) to the seller. you get the BTC. it's in Escrow on the site till then

then you can do the same way but you are the seller and people send you money through bank transfers back home, cash deposits or just cash the same way

nothing to do with brokers

15 minutes ago, topt said:

And watch it's value relative to what you want to buy go up and down quicker than a Soi 6 girls underwear ???? 

rubbish. but if you worry about the value to dollar, you can just sell your BTC into USDT (or TUSD) and it will be worth exactly the same amount (1$ per)

if you have 100,000k USD in USDT, in 10 days, it will still be 100,000 USD. doesn't matter if bitcoin went to down to 5000 or up to 15,000

42 minutes ago, likerdup1 said:

Where have you sold Bitcoin for Thai Baht? Where have you purchased bitcoin for Thai Baht? 

very easily done on localbitcoins regardless of country/currency

37 minutes ago, usacb500biker said:

Reward!!!!!     Village  Kids Reward 20B for every Dog or Cat You catch and turn In........ Thai Goverment notice, I read it somewhere..........

i've been saying this forever.

someone brings in dogs, registers with ID - gets paid.

charge owners small fee (say 200 baht to reclaim) and FORCE registration of claimed dogs (maybe record their Thai owner ID, a picture of them and their dog on computer and give them a small engraved metal tag to be worn on collar)

if dog not claimed within say 14 days, get rid of them.

and penalize owner if dog caught more than once

if they did this, the problem would disappear very quickly but there would be public outrage.

4 hours ago, simon43 said:

 

 

 

Any idea what he died from?

apparently he died last year in April due to complications following heart failure

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

On my morning bicycle ride I encountered a pack of dogs blocking the small road near a temple all looking ( hungrily) in my direction ! It was easy enough to go another route and avoid them.
This happened several days in a row until one day as I approached the temple a guy on a mc passed me with a plastic bucket ( 18 ltrs?) full of rice , he then proceeded to feed the dogs.
I now go on my bike ride 30 minutes later and pass the 20 or so pack all laid out sleeping .

The guy obviously thinks he is doing a great job, a good deed indeed !!
But does he know the danger he is creating ?, of course not, it would take a local kid to be mauled ( like the unfortunate 4 year old, god forbid) before he realises his error.

Gonna need some alarming advertising on TV to make the population aware of their wrong doings.

Maybe Big Joke make this his next campaign ??

feeding rice to dogs makes them sick and diseased.. 

house owner here mixed cooking leftovers with rice for her pit bull forever.. that dog is about 5 years old but looks 12.. blood problems, renal problems and full of diseases and now that the dog is sick practically 24/7, the vet bills are sometimes 5000 baht per month. so she decided to "start" to give it proper food, went for Royal Canin which is a horrible choice (not grain free, trash ingredients) and now after hearing her complain for the 100th time, I tell her she should buy proper food which is cheaper than RC

she did.. but then when I walk down I see a bowl with 50/50 trash and good food.

can't get them to understand

I know this is an old post but, great job. you are never too old to be fit.

Charles here started bodybuilding at 87 and had a better body than some men in their mid 20s at 95+, he died at 97.