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On 1/12/2016 at 4:06 AM, MauiSteveBKK said:

Quick Question: You say you want to "import from Europe" and sell the products

in Thailand on-line.

My pee-brain experience (and my wife tells me this) is that Thai people do NOT

like to buy products on-line (in Thailand), due to delivery and post office issues.

Assume My Wife Goes On-Line To Buy Your Product:

+ Web site in Thai?

+ Collect money on-line?

+ Delivery by courier or postman?

+ She have to pick-up at Post Office.

+ What about possible returns?

+ Is your product expirable? What is the "shelf life".

+ Many, many logistical things to consider. Think of them all!

I import from Thailand and sell on USA EBay and Amazon.

I can't imagine doing what you are thinking of doing.

Best of much luck to you.

I wish for your success.

tell your wife to check out LAZADA - times are changing!

If you have a business account in Thailand thats great, it also means you have a work permit and income and pay tax. So moving money out shouldn't be a problem at all as you are allowed to transfer out 80% of your yearly income! Also you have accountants looking after every single baht incoming and out going so if anything does go astray, its protected,.

personal banking in Thailand i can assure you, is not without risks. 11 years ago 30k went missing from my SCB account. I traced it to a bank in Bangna that i had never been too. It was apparently withdrawn from an ATM. I asked to see the hidden cam inside the ATM. Reply: we dont have one at this branch sir. SO off i go to Siam head office to speak with manager, his reply was were you drinking that day sir. My reply was no i wasnt even in the country, i was in Cambodia and showed my passport. needless to say it was never recovered. A few months after i was working in Chula and about 3 other stories with similar experiences came to light. BANK STAFF!

Its all very well saying you would rather have it in Thailand than back home, but when that becomes the only reality you are allowed. things are not so great!

I have about 50% of my assets here in thailand, and i know others have transfered a lot of their pensions here too.
However a recent spate of Bank trips in an effort to send some emergency money back home for my family has had been flat out refused at over 3 banks. In 12 years i have never had a problem with thai banks until now. We cant even own a condo, land, or send money out with FET forms. God forbid if you sell the condo and pay tax and want to send money back home.. I even showed them an FET form and was refused too. I always thought the FET forms were all thats required. Wrong! So basically if you ever need to leave or go back home for some medical reason, be prepared to lose everything or leave it ALL behind...
What comes in wont be leaving easily... no matter what documents you have. unless you have a work permit!

Anyone  tried recently to Transfer money out of Thailand in 2017, have the Banks changed their policy or am i just having a bad run?

For over a decade i have had no problem with Thai banks, occasionally i need to transfer cash back home and they have been fine if its below 20k USD. Even sometimes over that amount they have also been fine.

Now i have been to 3 different banks and branches this week, and been flat out refused everytime.

I even showed them an FET form which i thought would help, yet i was also refused even with one of those. and asked for more papers and documents and proof of funds.

It seems now that moving money out even if its below 20k USD requires not just a  Work permit but a check in the bank book on every transaction and where the money came from!!!

Ive never had this happen before, and obviously feel rather annoyed. Infact i plan not to bring another baht into Thailand and to empty every single bank account and buy a safe instead. Seriously!

Something bad is happening if they wont allow us to send money back home without a work permit. many of us have retired already or trade stocks or are private investors. We dont need a work permit to have money!

Anyone else having problems or can share recent news or experience

on sending money out of Thailand via Thai Banks in 2017

Great idea but god help you if you ever want to send your 10 mil back home aftewards. These days even if you show them an FET form of where the money came in. unless you have a absolutely perfect money trail including the little bank stubs they give you at banks and most people throw away (doh because I was told the FET form is all i needed) they will just say no and make you feel like  criminal. unbelievable... i even bought 2 condos and everytime i go to a Bank to send money out. if you are not retired and dont have a work permit - they will assume your a criminal. Be very careful!

19 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Yep, Britain is no longer an empire to be feared.

too many bullies in the playground now... time for change

do he seriously think a wall will keep people out? hasn't he seen those new body 

jet packs

A new pretty nice  Westernized hair salon just opened up right next to BTS Ploenchit.
Haircuts at 450/550 baht including wash n style, they do all the usual popular color and treatments stuff and a nail salon upstairs,

spoke quite good English, here is a price list -  its called Savanna Salon & Nail Bangkok

weird post but it must be quite tiring standing up all day trimming hair and small talking....

I think Bangkok is great for salons, you certainly have a lot to choose from. I prefer to pay in the middle and have a nice lady that can speak English with me rather than the super cheap asleep on the sofa or candy crush salons. I usually pay 450 baht for mine at Zahara salon in Sukhumvit 13, some hotties work there.
 

Another good place that is very easy to get to from BTS Ploenchit is this one savanna hair nail salon bangkok ploenchit

And Zenred gets very good reviews for Western style hair. mind you the older we get the less we care about our hair, the receding has already started for me...time is of the essence now..

Great way to publicize his up and coming movie, no anterior motives whatsoever...

Because its not his fault, it was her fault for wearing a short crop top and smiling at him... she deserved to get raped! dont you understand Thainess yet? Well go back to own countries then why stay here if you always complain about the Thai way! 

Another waste of jail space for the murderers, rapists, yaba suppliers, child traffickers, corrupt politicians...
 

Ofcourse the anti green brigade and ani climate change are gonna jump in and say <deleted> its a lie.

But seriously any normal person that takes his head out of the clouds and does the maths here = Human population rising exponentially x urban areas increasing at alarming rate x muslim population baby machines x capitalism + china = LESS SPACE AVAILABLE = NO MORE WILDLIFE (apart from in Zoos)

Kiss food restaurant is your best bet, no aircon but just sit under the fan, certainly not going to kill you...
Aircon restaurants for 40-50 baht will only exist if your eating in BIG C or a food court im afraid, Electricity has gone up a lot over the last 12 years here, so you will have to improvise...

RULE no1

Never Ever Get Married... It means nothing just pain, trouble and is completely UNnecessary in this day and age. its just a farce now that has been manipulated by lawyers and has nothing to do with the church anymore.
A relationship if based on love needs no piece of legal documents to solidify that, and if they start asking for marriage, you better take off your rose tinted goggles because they are asking for a reason. $$$$ security and the the excuse to sit home eat all day get fat and treat you like dogshit with the ace in their pack of cards.
Wake up suckers...

THE END...

And lets not forget when the shoe is on the other foot...
I think a worthy question but one no one dares to ask is this...
Once a guy has mongered one too many times, can they ever stop? or worse can they maintain a relationship without the urge to monger.
I can assume its equally as difficult for men to stop too.

Granted its an easy statement to make, but when they hide behind women and children and 1.5 million innocents. its not so easy...

i dont know, if you ask me. when it actually comes down to the nitty gritty.

Freedom of rights, freedom of speech, human rights, proaganda, leste majeste - yes Thailand does have a lot to answer for... But lets take a look to the West, the US General elections is the biggest propaganda joke and media circus ive ever witnessed, and this is from a so called (Free country) I know one thing... Thailand may have its faults but when it comes to Propaganda versus controlling the Media (disciplining it when it steps out of line etc) i certainly prefer Thailands way than any of the western worlds media garbage and circus shows.
And regarding transparency, im 110% sure the UK and USA are not transparent about pretty much anything, so why judge Thailand any differently? the only difference in reality is Thailand makes it plainly obvious and the West lies about it under a false flag of democracy and free speech and free rights. If Thailand was so bad you wouldn't be here and you wouldnt be reading this, instead you would be say in some cold factory toilet in Manchester reading the Sun or Daily mirror and admiring your governments transparency or its treatment to terrorists in Guantanamo, yes innocent until proven guilty? i think not...

the mind boggles....
How does anyone get into these situations?
I came here years ago with just a backpack and a few bob, i made it my priority to find a job - ANY JOB! just enough to get by is fine... its not that hard if you get your lazy butt out of bed in the morning and go out with a shirt and tie on, smile at a few people and show your willingness to work.
Tell him to go get a job... any job, maybe a job that will pay him per day for a few hours teaching... theres loads on the internet, there really is ZERO excuse!
Then when he gets together a few thousand baht... do a border run and get the visa reset and his fines paid off...pronto!!!

No blacklist, no drama - but he has to act NOW!

Oh and with regards to what happens when he returns back to the UK with no money?

The UK government will be throwing money at people who dont want to work and dont have a place to stay, no worries there - its the reason these dregs to society exist because they are so used to free handouts..

Just like clockwork every year since Mr T left - every year around August and afterwards we get these so called blame it on Islam terrorist attacks or warnings...  its all just smoke and mirrors... the south keep their affairs south and im not buying it...

I agree that plastic surgery is a solution when you are getting old, saggy or have a deformity that affects your mental wellbeing. But these youngsters are already fine and aprts from stuffing themselves with glut amine and carcinogens and just idiotic if they want a sharper chin,cheekbones higher and blah blah... whats wrong with em? Thai society is a mess..

i think it stems from not having many friends in Thailand - so they vent online... Ofcourse the reason they dont have many friends here is probably cos they are miserable bastards and just complain all day long. Then ofcourse you have the Pro Thailand brigade, those that try to do the exact opposite by praising everything the Thais do, and saying if you dont like it go home... LOL

However both camps are usually Off their rockers.... and should be taken with a pinch of salt and a tequilla.

how to we know they are fishooks? could be anything

yes 95% of Thais cannot swim, and really dont want to learn...

The only good swimmers are those that grow up near the sea and or maybe rivers and lakes up North...

As usual

The farang comes to Thailand and because of Xenophobic laws has to marry or befriend a Thai to operate business here.
So he does and i guarantee the woman did Sweet FA to work or help the guy, except as he became more successful and his co ltd grew she realised she was 51% holder.

She probably bullied him and threatened him for the money so he removed her as he saw fit...
Either way she didnt work for the money and only was entitled to it due to draconian laws, bar girl suddenly becomes a multi millionaire etc.