msealey

bitcoins are not illegal in thailand but banks may have their own policies on if to accept incoming wires or not.

better just use localbitcoin to meet someone and swap your coins for baht and avoid the banking system entirely.

They are illegal:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/10210022/Bitcoins-banned-in-Thailand.html

It's illegal to purchase the daily telegraph with bitcoin in Thailand, that article was written out of malice in retaliation.

you dont have to give the cash until you see the bitcoin transaction on the network, and they dont need to be thai to be in thailand

I think more to the point, the fact you'd be meeting a stranger in person to do a large (op stated 4 figure) cash for cash exchange. They don't have to put the gun down until you hand over the cash or bitcoin

It's only 1000 baht for a transfer from Bitstamp, no idea why you'd take the risks invovled with local bitcoins over here on a 4 figure withdrawal especially as you'd probably lose the 1000 baht on the exchange rate!

Don't listen to anyone saying bitcoins are illegal it was a mad story blown out of proportion by the media because a silly expat got turned for banking as he was trying to run a small bitcoin exchange (it was the name of his site that mislead the mis-informed media to think he was something he wasn't www.bitcoin.co.th!!).

I used to use gox before it was clear they were unrealiable, now I've been using Bitstamp about once a fortnight for the last year or so without any issues.... stupid falang think too much 555!!

When did it become clear exactly that they were unreliable !!!!!!

To me about a year ago, sadly to a lot of people it never twigged!

It's only 1000 baht for a transfer from Bitstamp, no idea why you'd take the risks invovled with local bitcoins over here on a 4 figure withdrawal especially as you'd probably lose the 1000 baht on the exchange rate!

Don't listen to anyone saying bitcoins are illegal it was a mad story blown out of proportion by the media because a silly expat got turned for banking as he was trying to run a small bitcoin exchange (it was the name of his site that mislead the mis-informed media to think he was something he wasn't www.bitcoin.co.th!!).

I used to use gox before it was clear they were unrealiable, now I've been using Bitstamp about once a fortnight for the last year or so without any issues.... stupid falang think too much 555!!

typical PATHETIC smoker, you'll never quit you'll always be a LOSER, just looking for excuses to start again from day ONE, no wonder your family most likely HATE you, you's can't even get a grip of ya own mind without inhaling TOXIC chemicals good luck

She's a British citizen residing in London.

She can say what she wishes.

Exactly we fought wars for freedom of speech , but you should still show respect,

She should have learned the British saying, " If you cannot say anything Nice don't say anything at all."

Technically American from the 1942 hit movie Bambi

I wonder who grassed the parents to the press?

Anyone have De Ja Vue here? Yep this poor girl is Edward Snowden 2.0 by anyones estimations. I wonder what the Pommies next move will be? probably to chase her off into exile in chilly Russia.

I go to temple and wish the lucky thing for this girl come back Thailand

My friend jokingly says , " You can get the monkeys out of the jungle , but you can't get the jungle out of the monkeys ".

Your friend is an extremely witty wordsmith and should be applauded for his humor.

I think foreigners in Chiangmai are OK, I think it's just the ENTIRE expat community in Pattaya that should be shot.

Assuming this is legit...

Why don't you contact her second 'husband'? I'm certain he'll be interested in knowing that his marriage wasn't legal. If she got a cent from him he can probably get it back. Therefore he may be willing to work with you. If he needs you to testify or sign anything he will likely reciprocate and you can have all the documentation you need to prove infidelity, or abandonment, which you can use as grounds for divorce. He may also be willing to pay, or chip in on, your legal fees to do that (I think you should consider your options and then get a good Thai lawyer).

Also consider she broke a whole lot of laws - the main one being lying to immigration. She stated she was legally married, or single and able to get married (for real), to get permanent residency. That makes the whole thing immigration fraud. She also lied with respect to the marriage license so... she should be willing to bend over backwards to do whatever you like or you can just drop a dime! Then her best-case scenario is being deported, probably banned for life from returning, but she could easily do jail time first.

Why stop there? Short of murder, see if you can conjure up some other obscure laws she may have broken in either of the 3 countries she's involved in. Skipped rent, credit card fraud, even an unpaid store card? Parking tickets! Everyone has unpaid parking tickets! That must be a capital offence in some podunk jurisdiction no? Then maybe you get something at the International Court in the Hague. Get her totally banned from Earth,... forever!!!

Fifteen years and suddenly the OP wants a divorce. Why?

It came up as a part of the "ask a lawyer" brainstorming session.

Strange thing about women's brain, there's nothing right in left side, and nothing left on the right side

The lady is always right in a relationship with the exception of relationships involving bar girls in which case I believe the customer is always right

It's funny how continually poisoning your body and getting obscenely drunk, probably offensive, possibly violent and no doubt stinking of booze is more acceptable to most TV members than having a couple of joints. Reading past threads comparing the two, drinking 10 pints, throwing up and passing out is a commendable thing for a "real man" to do, but having a smoke is something for which one should be hung, drawn and quartered!

I don't do either. Just saying.

So you think your better than us do you mister "i dont drink or smoke but like to promote drugs to kids that might be reading this forum"? yes you think your better than everyone on this forum.

I don't drink but that's not to say I DON'T drink if you get what I mean? in think it's fair to say I don't, don't drink which is a double negative inferring I do I'm not drunk now but I've had enough to take the edge of last nights little spell. Don't really know where it starts and it's going to end but it's not leading anywhere good.

If you are dating girls in Pattaya it is a 100% certain they are after your money and are probably bargirls as well .

It doesn't matter where girls/women in Thailand come from , if they are dating with foreigners they are looking for money .

Love and Money are one and the same to Thai women in every part of Thailand . In Pattaya and other resorts , it is for Falangs to love and give lots of

money . Thai women do sex for money , Prostitution ? What's that ?

You live in a delusional world…all Pattaya girls are only after money and are probably bargirls? So supposing I date a physician or dentist in Pattaya, she is only after my money?

Pattaya is a big city…to generalize like that might be asking for a beating or worse when you touch the wrong girl!

I've dated both a physician and dentist in Pattaya, I got sick of both relationships fast though because if I wanted afternoon sex with them it cost in excess of 1000 baht to get them to leave their surgerys.

Op it is perhaps none of my business but did you finger her?

Hmmm does this stink of jilted wife with younger lover trying to cash in on insurance payout to anyone else?

So much "sound" advice from the "farang kwai" community, but not one suggestion that you get an "English Speaking" Thai lawyer first (they're everywhere in Chiang Mai),before you spend even one baht on that internet gold-digger). What's wrong with you, sir? Have you taken TOTAL leave of your senses? Again, get a lawyer's advice, and stop panhandling for advice, on this forum. It's time for you to WAKE-UP to reality, fr heaven's sake.

Do you have any idea just how ridiculous that statement is, "get a Thai lawyer", to advise on a relationship matter between a national and a farang, I'm oddly lost for words on this one!

Of course the "know-it-all" farangs who (1)couldn't make it @ homebase, (2) shacked-up in Thailand with some girl young enough to be their granddaughter, (3) beer for breakfast, lunch and supper, (4) tatooed to the hilt, (5) spending 20 hrs. daily "criticizing" others on this forum, yet giving absolutely no "usable" advice to expats in distress, would indeed consider my post ridiculous. Congratulations bloke! You're a REAL winner

agreed

quit smarking at 7pm 4 hours down!!

This has setup written all over it.Get out while you can.Would you do this in the west,you have your traditions too you know,it is not a one way steet.

She said that if I pay for a worker to replace her (30000 baht for the month) that she would spend every day with me. Last time she mentioned this it was only 20,000??? I actually offered to do that and then she said that she didn't trust worker understand her mother. So always an excuse!

It's a positive sign things could be working out, a months salaries probably worth around 10k. Before when you asked her to spend a day with you she said she'd do it for 2 months salary. Now she's implying that she'd be happy to give up 12 hour days in the shop and spend time with you but she wants twice the money as her current job.

Well, OP. 16 odd pages. What are you going to do?

I met with her family and told them that since she refuses to spend time with me alone that I was not going to open the bank anymore. She said "we can spend time together at the beach in 2 weeks. Just pay for my family to go" I told her that I wasn't going to spend money on a trip where we would have no alone time. I kind of feel like an ass but I insisted that the only way the relationship would work is if she made time for me. I told her I wasn't going to sit around CM for 10 days so we could have a family vacation... without any alone time. She gave me back the ring and asked how much of the money I wanted back. I left and then 10 minutes later she is skyping me begging me to come back to the relationship. Probably being pressed by parents i am sure. I told her I really wanted a relationship with her but it couldn't be based on money. She said OK then come buy me gold and I will take off work tomorrow.??? Sorry babe I am not going to buy you a baht of gold to spend the day with you.

Did you ask for ALL the money back!!!?? see how far you get with it and post back.

The best way to get over this girl is to get on Excel and make a spreadsheet of alternative uses of the money (you can still objectify women as purchasable objects, but objectify smart).

1 house with 5 room luxury dungeon = 1.5 million baht

5 x girl for each room in new house for 4 months per year during visit @50k per month = 4(5(50k))=1m

Remainder left from budget after year 1 = 2.5m (or an extra 2.5 years of more sordid debauchery)

Savings from ongoing costs to mother in law 360k p.a. (or 1 more girl??)

Do the maths and go with the smart money rather than what your heart tells you. The heart is an Asian concept, the mind is Western.

Seriously though guys you have to tap blue waffle into image search at least once in your life

well I dont know where this will end but you all have to agree, with this many pages so quick the op might be trying out for post of the year and to just get in early, if he comes back with his "daddy" talk results this could go ballistic............

... hmmm... I have 20k in my pocket, I wonder what we should do tomorrow??

TROLL

Your writing style is not even that of a man in his late 30s or even a man.

I think you are a younger women with too much time on your hands

You're boring me now young lady good day to you

A simple dox of his user name, does show he is in fact a 38 year old American man. but also a sex pervert troll.. great thread while it lasted though!!