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1 minute ago, Vacuum said:

"cute socks" you can buy in most local markets, no need to order overseas, unless you mean 'cute' stockings for the gf.

if you like the limited selection at local markets, more power to you

she didn't

a few years back, I used to order a bunch of small items from Aliexpress. (bunch of cute socks for gf, random cheap things like that)

Aliexpress has some pretty good refund system, if it doesn't show up before X amount of days you can get refunded

sometimes the sellers tell you they will "resend" another product but since it usually takes 4-8 weeks to get those cheap items from China they are usually doing it to make you go out of the refund time. (it works for them, trust me.)

anyways, within months I must have ordered 100 little items and got practically all of them up until one day

one day the packages stop coming.. about 10-15 of them never made it.

about 2 of them had tracking numbers showing they made it to the closest city but the tracking stopped there

I never received a single package after that.  I went to the main post office with the 2 tracking numbers, they looked it up, shrugged and asked me to "wait more"

even if it was like a week or two back those trackings were close

they didn't care, didn't do anything to help.. I did get refunded tho

12 minutes ago, bluesea said:

Thailand has the most difficult address system in the world not even a TomTom GPS and Google Maps can work it the system out.

what ever happend to a good old style of address  122 George street for example.

How many couriers have to call you on the phone to find out where you live or Located??

Maybe the Postie is Pissed off and the street system is even to hard for them.

in Canada if you search on Google my postal code, it shows a shape that shows exactly where the only two places it can be is (only one side of the road)

regarding Thailand, it's not better in the Philippines, when i went there the first time I asked the guy what the address of the place i was renting was and he gave me the street name and said "in front of Queensland"
when i pushed for an address he kept saying "just tell them that"

he was, directly in front of Queensland but I learned by walking around that none of the houses had numbers on them.. maybe 5-10% of them did.

even if they went with numbers, even on one side, uneven on the other side at a minimum then it might be quite easy to find

but some of the sois don't even have a name at all..

when I used to travel back and forth to Canada (for more than a few days) I would bring my desktop computer in parts in my suitcase including hard drives.

I was stopped once I think it was in Japan and asked if I had porn on my hard drive to which I chuckled and said "why would I bring porn on my hard drives, when you can access it in 3 seconds online?"

that got him to stop his questioning.

technically, I guess i must have had some saucy pictures of my gf on the hard drive at that time..

but really. if you want to save some, you can use something like Google Drive where it will be stored online. you can always disconnect the account, delete the folder and then redownload when you are "home" (or just view them online?)

4 hours ago, Myran said:

To open a Thai Paypal account? Not to my knowledge. I sure didn't have one when I opened it a few years back.

you can open a Thai Paypal account but unless things have changed you will not be able to link anything to it but Thai accounts

of course you could send some money from your paypal from abroad to it but then you are paying fees .

5 minutes ago, rjwill01 said:

For $60000 I will wait in line for my yearly.

what $60000? 20 years is 1m baht

 

that lady they said had "extraordinary good looks"..? meh, I'd Tinder swipe left (skip) on her personally based on that face picture, even if she was fit as F

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.