poweratradio

anyone ever heard of this company?

"arrange loans"

they seem a Russian company based in Pattaya

What an outrageously blatant TROLL post with so many options available OTHER THAN where you suggest in this B.S. troll post 1. Own your home! Re-morgage! 2. Credit cards for such a small amount of 12- 13 K dollars. 3. Friends.

If none of that is available to you then you got more WRONG in your life than a need for 500K Baht.

We are only valued as ATM...and for those who don't agree with this : "Dream On"...

Care to list all the countries you know of where there is no such thing including your own home country. WAKE-UP yourself! Everywhere in this world it has always been MONEY TALKS AND BULLS88T WALKS.

all you are and all you ever will be in this third world dump is a walking ATM. The sooner you figure this out the better. Going home was the best decision I ever made, and I recommend you do it too.

Clear violation (this third world dump) of forum rules

3 Thais caught for beating a lone Westerner. They're caught and declare they're sorry for hurting tourism and Thailand's image.

6 Thais caught for beating a lone Westerner. They're caught and declare they're sorry for hurting tourism and Thailand's image.

3 Thais caught for attacking a lone 22 yr old German with a hoe for fun (putting him on life support) and to copy cat the Koh Tao murders. They're sorry for hurting Thailand's image and tourism.

2 Thais caught on social media hitting elderly Westerners on the head with their sandals and laughing at them while videoing it. They're caught after a friend of a victim contacts the police and they are sorry for, yup, hurting Thailand's image and tourism.

Young Thai stabs a 70 yr old Westerner for brushing past him in the street. He is sorry for hurting Thailand's image and tourism, is fined 500b and released.

Why are they never sorry for the Western victims and are only sorry for hurting Thailand's image and tourism? Are we not valued as people here?

no you're looked down on by many Thais as second rate whorers.

Not being nasty but the the truth, a fact.

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Most ridiculous post yet on this thread and of course no stat back up; just pure hillbilly genius from a visiting no mind....

What do you expect from kids growing up watching every day these so called Thai movies. Even my Thai isn't good enough to understand what is spoken in these movies, its always the same. Rich and beautiful young people permanent shouting, solving problems with a gun in their hand, beating up women and elderly, not even old enough to have finished an education but driving around with luxury cars and and and.... If you would have had to grow up with all this bullshit penetrating your brains on a daily basis, what do you think you would do when you are older and nobody gives you a car, a job, sufficient money to hang around with your friends? You would start to take it, and you would take it from those who you think that they are rich and don't belong to your country. Education starts early, about the same time envy starts

Fatfather

That is why all farange need to go in mass and apply for weapons licences and the ability to carry them. Once these weak no minds get the idea they may get shot if they accost a farange violently it might stop the violence although it hasn't worked in Texas.

Wake UP people, they dont want you here they only want your money.

They are savages the lot of them. If not for the women being sexually suitable, most of us would not likely be here at all.

Please don't let the plastic smiles fool you - especially you older blokes with fading vision. Think of Thais as the hillbillies of Asia and take necessary precautions.

Think of Thais as the hillbillies of Asia and take necessary precautions. I believe you have the Philippines mixed up with Thailand in your uncalled for BASHING

I searched and found 10 gang assaults in the first ten days so far this month in Pattaya.

An attack a day. ...and those are the ones that made the paper.

Off the top of my head, there were 2 Indians, 3 Brits a Polish guy and a lynchmob chasing the American lady away from the scene of a minor car accident.

Check the stats for any city that size. You will undoubtedly find similar stats. SOOOOO Once AGAIN I ASK.WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS POORLY WRITTEN> OP>????

" They're caught and declare they're sorry for hurting tourism and Thailand's image"

Can you show us where all of these people made this statement?

Is it just something you created to try to make your post provocative?

I seriously doubt that the kind of people who commit crimes like this care about Thailand's image or tourism industry in the least.

I seriously suspect you are a troll. .

P.S., people who pray on tourist, "work" in the westernized tourist areas.

This is not a problem here in the rest of Thailand.

Just in the past couple of days there was an article in the news on this site where the Thai perp was caught and apologized for hurting Thailand's tourism image. I posted just that phrase he used and I got a lot of likes. People understood what I meant. The Thai had committed a crime against a farang and his only printed apology was about the tourism slant.

I'm not going to look it all up because it's obvious that the OP is right about this.

Cheers

WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS POORLY WRITTEN> OP>????

" They're caught and declare they're sorry for hurting tourism and Thailand's image"

Can you show us where all of these people made this statement?

Is it just something you created to try to make your post provocative?

I seriously doubt that the kind of people who commit crimes like this care about Thailand's image or tourism industry in the least.

I seriously suspect you are a troll. .

P.S., people who pray on tourist, "work" in the westernized tourist areas.

This is not a problem here in the rest of Thailand.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS POORLY WRITTEN> OP>???? TROLL

I delete them all, every day, several times a day. I don't like being tracked. I hate the damned popup TV puts on my screen everytime I open it after deleting cookies, hate it I tell you.

Why not just block all cookies instead?

Your funny suggestion is hilarious. Hows that workin for ya?

A solicitor friend had exactly the same issue with UPS importing a small item into the UK. The delivery guy came to him but refused to leave the item before he had received payment. He too asked what the charge was for and was told customs duty. My friend asked to see the custom charge paperwork. Turned out it was just an estimate done by UPS and they had no back up paperwork from customs. Being a solicitor my friend told the delivery guy sorry but i dont have any cash but could give him a cheque. The delivery guy accepted this and left the item and went away with the cheque whereupon my friend then rings his bank and cancels the cheque.

Only way to deal with their scam

I am sure this method was exactly what the solicitor needed to enhance his credit bureau credit rating. NSF

I have a question, does anybody know why we can send liquid from USA to Thailand but cannot send liquid from Thailand to any country ? Thanks.

Thailand is a drug source country. Nuff said...

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The reason USPS is the way to go is because they hand off to the regular Thai Post and for some reason they have a fairly decent reputation for NOT pulling this scam. I've read where all the foreign 3rd party delivery companies have this problem to one extent or another.

The main difference is (IMO) employees of the Thai post are government employees and employees of 3rd party companies such as DHL, UPS and FedEx are employees of private companies. Yeah, I know, government people aren't known for being free from corruption, but in this case it may just be harder to pull off for a Thai Post employee.

My advice is to call UPS's head office and complain. If you have a tracking number then they will know which office is pulling this scam and you may just help the next guy by rooting out these crooks.

UPS Parcel Delivery Service Ltd.

Head Office

16/1 Soi Sukhumvit 44/1

Sukhumvit Road, Prakhanong, Klongtoey

Bangkok 10110

Thailand

Tel.: 66 2728 9000

Fax: 66 2712 1818

I did write an email to them. They said they would look into the matter. So I am waiting to see if they do anything

Sorry to be the one to tell you but they do not respond well to ignorance in the receivers. If you get anything at all back from them it will be a form mail with the information attached detailing the shipping and receiving cost associated with International shipping.

The reason USPS is the way to go is because they hand off to the regular Thai Post and for some reason they have a fairly decent reputation for NOT pulling this scam. I've read where all the foreign 3rd party delivery companies have this problem to one extent or another.

The main difference is (IMO) employees of the Thai post are government employees and employees of 3rd party companies such as DHL, UPS and FedEx are employees of private companies. Yeah, I know, government people aren't known for being free from corruption, but in this case it may just be harder to pull off for a Thai Post employee.

My advice is to call UPS's head office and complain. If you have a tracking number then they will know which office is pulling this scam and you may just help the next guy by rooting out these crooks.

UPS Parcel Delivery Service Ltd.

Head Office

16/1 Soi Sukhumvit 44/1

Sukhumvit Road, Prakhanong, Klongtoey

Bangkok 10110

Thailand

Tel.: 66 2728 9000

Fax: 66 2712 1818

Where is this scam you speak of>>>> There is no scam just stupid importers to Thailand. Regarding CIF shipments. All the top 3 have websites clearly outlining all details.

I shipped some clothes USPS a couple years ago and TW got charged 3000baht. It was more than the cost of the pants.

TW?

The wife

That's why i never buy anything from a vendor that only ships UPS or Fedex. UPS is the worst. You paid like $80, $100, for shipping and then when it arrives, they add another $10 or so for handling/customs fees. And they bring you a pile of documents to sign. Never seen anything ike it. i hate them.

Yeah now I also certainly hate them.

Gee thats funny how the 2 largest courier companies in the world with DHL licking at their heels.... could be so stupid to overstate value fees. Yeah right ah heh sure.

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You're American right? You hardly know what tax is.

So Thailand has high import tax on clothing. So does India, so does South Africa, so does Brazil. The idea is to protect the local industry. Probably 40%, by the sound of it. UPS will add handling/customs fees.

The arithmetic

<< That's what I did. I also never ever used a courier service again. >>

it depends on the country. Typically, the PO depot / international hub has a Customs department, staffed by Revenue Service / Customs. If you use post services instead of courier, they will calculate the import duty and you pay when you collect the parcel.

The arithmetic that Don Mega showed is wrong. The import duty is calculated on the value of the goods, not including the shipping cost. Then after the import duty is added, there may be VAT.

So the quoted fee should be less than Don Mega's calculation ?

Just wait for the 2nd visit for heavens sake and get the tally then. Now go to your room and wait for the 2nd delivery attempt like a good child.

$180(product) + $60(shipping)= $240.

$240 + 30% import tax = $312.

$312 + 7% vat = $333.84

$333.84 - $240 = $93.84

$93.84 total import taxes to be paid.

Where is the hostage situation, Or did you believe you could import stuff into Thailand and completely avoid all import taxes and duties ?

Excellent post.

Yes, and I told them to abandon the shipment. Maybe the wrong decision, but there was some principle involved

UPS has always charged for clearing customs and paying brokerage fees has always been that of the customer including taxes paid by UPS on the customers behalf. If the seller does the UPS booking and ships the Package Standard class. All fees go to the customer receiving. If the seller had shipped it Express class or higher the brokerage fees would have waived. Point to note... Brokerage fees begin at $25.dollars for a border hop N.America to over $50 for Int'l.

Should of paid the fees and got your package but having sent back refused may make it very difficult to get your money back even with a guaranteed Visa used. Need an RMA #

I think there is some confusion to this article...

U-Fun is not the issue, it's a small group that has been creating "stores" where you can spend your U-Fun money.

U-Fun was investigated by the Thai government and even publicly apologized to U-Fun for not being a scam.

U-Tokens are virtual currency like Bitcoin, but more of a way to spend the mutual stock in certain companies.

What U-Fun does is invest in mutuals in various Chinese companies and the U-tokens are the shares and rather than

going through a brokerage firm to get your money, you can use your U-Tokens. It's actually quite brilliant.

I am not sure from this article that U-Fun is in trouble, but to me it looks like a group of people has been scamming people

to use their U-Tokens at virtual stores that don't exist.

There is not pyramid to U-Fun, you can invest by buying U-Tokens and when the stock in the companies they invest in go up

so do your earnings. If you want to promote U-Fun, you can and make commissions as you're getting paid like a broker would

for finding investors.

Just a note, I am not an investor with U-Fun, but I have researched it as I know many that are. Cheers!

WOW...Thank you for your 3rd hand or is it 4th hand knowledge or 10th hand. This from a what? You? Quote>just a note, I am not an investor with U-Fun, but I have researched it as I know many that are. Cheers!< unquote He researched it okay....

never learning ? quickly to forget ?

Mae Chamoy Thipyaso, the Thailand wife of a senior officer from the Royal Thai Air Force, founded an investment firm by the name Mae Chamoy Funds. The woman used the infamous Ponzi scheme in order to trick a large number of investors. Nearly half a century after Charles Ponzi was caught cheating with the scheme Thipyaso and seven accomplices thought they could trick investors with the notorious pyramid scheme. However, they didn’t manage to get away with it and in July 1989 Thipyaso and the seven other schemers were sentenced all to a total of 141,078 years behind bars. In comparison to Ponzi and his 17 years in jail Thipyaso and her accomplices didn’t manage to get easily out of their situation.

By the time they were caught and sentenced at a court in Bangkok, Thailand, they had tricked over 16,000 Thais and had built a system worth $204 million at that time.

We needed to have you give us a historical lesson FOR WHAT REASON????? Hope you feel better now getting that out of your cobwebs.

Simple rule to follow if it sounds to good to bet true then it is scam.

what was that saying "you can't cheat an honest man..."

No sorry ! There is no such saying....!

Simple rule to follow if it sounds to good to bet true then it is scam.

DUH...!!!!!

There is another Farang from California running same scam been advertising on craigslist But got seriously pissed when I called him on it. Hope they bust him too.

This topic is about the scam here...NOT California

I left Thailand 4 years ago.

That means you have nothing but past tense perfect insight to offer to any post related to Thailand from 4 years ago forward.