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I thought gold in thailand was 96.5% gold and not 99.9%!
I saw some of the Philharmonic gold coins I believe out of Austria they are 99.9. Not much in the way of bullion with that content here. Again when in Rome deal in what the Romans deal in. You can PM me and I will tell you where. I believe that gold coins carry a higher premium than bars.
I'm definitely not interested in coins, only bullion, but if you have info about bullion I suggest you post it here so the info will be useful to other also.
If it is legit then it shouldn't be a secret.
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I thought gold in thailand was 96.5% gold and not 99.9%!
Gold bullion is available in both grades
Since you're looking to buy bullion in Thailand, why not simply go for the Thai gold? If not mistaken, it's 96.5% as opposed to 99.6%. But it's very easy to get and just as easy to sell again when needed. Prices of Thai gold fluctuate with the world price of gold.
I prefer 99.9% because that one will be certified buy a international institution, while the 96.5% will be certified by a Thai institution. Thai gold is easier to sell in Thailand, but in other parts of the world they will prefer 99.9%
Is that a problem ? How are you going to get it out of Thailand and into another country?
Are you willing to take a chance with metal detectors at airports ?
Sure a couple of coins , but say a 100 to 250 gr bar... that is real money to lose.
Aren't you allowed to take gold with you?
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I thought gold in thailand was 96.5% gold and not 99.9%!
Gold bullion is available in both grades
Since you're looking to buy bullion in Thailand, why not simply go for the Thai gold? If not mistaken, it's 96.5% as opposed to 99.6%. But it's very easy to get and just as easy to sell again when needed. Prices of Thai gold fluctuate with the world price of gold.
I prefer 99.9% because that one will be certified buy a international institution, while the 96.5% will be certified by a Thai institution. Thai gold is easier to sell in Thailand, but in other parts of the world they will prefer 99.9%
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I have been looking at purchasing some gold recently. After googling for a while and reading between the lines, I have come to the decision that long term, one needs to buy actual physical gold as opposed to a document that says you own some. In the short term I would feel comfortable with paper ownership, however, when national debts finally do hit the fan.........
Last time I checked gold bullion was physical gold.
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In the near future I want to buy gold bullion, preferable 99.9%.
So I'm looking for information about where to buy, what the fees are and which are trustable companies.
I am aware of Ausiris, but the English part of their website are only blank pages, so I went already to their offices in Pattaya.
Nobody, including the manager, spoke any understandable English. Nobody could explain to me what the fees are for buy or sell, even not a brochure, which i think is very strange.
The only English language brochure they had was about promotions, but again no mention about fees, and I can't help it to think when I'm offered promotions on a commodity that I'm scammed in the first place. The promotion itself was a joke anyway, as the offered 35 Baht discount if you purchased 5 Baht of gold.
So if anyone could give me some info about a reputable company where to buy and what the standard fees are, or maybe some English info about Ausiris, I may consider them again. However I don't feel comfortable to do business concerning large amounts of money when the other party doesn't speak a language I can understand.
I'm not an native English speaker myself by the way.
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I have given up on Big C extra, and by the number of customers in there today, compared with Tesco and Makro around the same time I think many have already. Prices seem to rise daily now, only quality doesn't improve equally. I think, apart from Villa of course, they must now be the most expensive supermarket in Thailand.
Bread toppings about 30% premium for the same over Foodland, and I take foodland quality any day over Big C.
Eggs No 0, 51 Baht at Makro while 59 at Big C, that's almost 20%
La Vache qui rit cheese spread, 115 at Makro while 144 at Big C, that's again about 30%, but in fact there are no items I regularly buy that aren't cheaper elsewhere.
Where I in the past few months already only bought chicken breast there, for the only reason that they barbecue it for free, I now don't see any reason anymore to visit. By the way, the chicken breast may be a little cheaper at Big C, but for some reason they are about 350 gram each, where elsewhere they are less than 200 gram which I think is normal.
I still wonder how they do that since their whole chickens are only twice the weight of a single breast.
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Nernpubwan is now Pattaya klang, when did this happen ?
When they got rid of proof readers or decent sub editors...........
On March 10?
When the only proof reader (?) "famous" Howard Miller left Thailand in what some would call a "surprise move"?
Now in "Southend on Sea".
https://www.facebook.com/howard.miller.927/posts/10153979299508245
I wish everyone I have met over the years in Thailand the very best for the future and the new team in place at Pattaya One will definitely take the brand from strength to strength and exciting times are ahead for Pattaya's leading news service.Yes it is hot in Thailand these days, for some hotter than for others.
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Loads of new build shophouses sitting empty already grumpy,I presume because overpriced,as normal everything is oversupplied in krabi loads of hotels/guesthouses everywhere and its a very short busy/high season .
Already in the last 3 weeks it's gone pretty quiet,my advice would be cater to the Thais not rely on anything that just caters to westerners for 3 months of the year.
5 years ago building houses to rent was quite good but everyone jumped on that wagon and again now you have over supply.
Hi taninthai,
this is still people just parking money though. If they get a renter, or a buyer they are happy, if not, they still will get a better return in the long run than if they had parked that same dough in an interest bearing savings. Cheers, GOM
Please enlighten us how you can be better of with money invested in an empty sitting shop house than having it in an interest bearing bank account.
We are all ears.
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Trump’s Week of Errors, Exaggerations and Flat-out Falsehoods:
“It turned out I’m much richer than people think.” (March 7 in Madison, Miss.)
Trump says he’s worth more than $10 billion. Forbes Magazine says he’s worth $4.5 billion.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $2.9 billion.
“You have Japan, where the cars come in by the hundreds of thousands, they pour off the boats,
We send them like nothing. We send them nothing, by comparison, nothing.” (March 7 in Concord, N.C. and at least one other time)
The United States exported $62 billion worth of goods to Japan last year.
“We don’t win at trade. We lose to everybody at trade. Trade we lose to everybody.” (March 11 in St. Louis)
In 2015, the U.S. had trade surpluses with a number of countries including Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the UAE and Australia.
“I’m not going to take any money. I don’t want any money. ... You know, I’ve self-funded my campaign,
Right now, I’m into, you would know better than me, maybe $30 million, maybe more.” (March 11 press conference in Palm Beach)
There’s a big blue “DONATE” button in the top right corner of his campaign website.
As of Jan. 31, his campaign had accepted $7.5 million from donors not named Donald J. Trump.
Trump gave his campaign only $250,318.
He lent another $17.5 million, but that’s repayable at any time until shortly after the election.
See link for much more Bloviating/Lying.
You're really so much clamping at straws that it makes you look foolish.
Who will best know your net worth, some magazines or youself.
US exported 68 Billion to Japan, and how much exported Japan to the US? You missed that Trump said " nothing BY COMPARISON".
WOW, the US had a trade surplus with a whole 4 countries? How many countries does the US have trade relations with?
Yeah his campaign has to pay back the loans, but who is that actually? I doubt it are the campaign workers, so how he gonna get back his money?
Any figures how much donation money Cruz, Carson, Clinton or Bush have spend ? I heard those figures run into the tenfold.
The link for much lying was actually this one, isn't it
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With my Kodi enabled media box I can stream virtually every live news channel in the world.
But in fact I don't want to zap between all those channels, but want to have 1 news channel on in the background all day.
In that case I'm looking for your opinion about which channel is the best informed worldwide, has the fastest updates, and most important is considered
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When following your reasoning, then I wonder why harbor mall Laem Chabamg and Tukcom Chonburi are not doing so well with Thai people, however they are even easier to access for Bangkok people. You may have noticed that the majority of the visitors this weekend carried Bangkok license plates on their cars.
Then, Central is a completely different animal then Harbor mall.Take away the tourists in Central and leave only the Thai people in there and your views especially on weekdays will be completely different.
By the way, 8.30 PM is peak time for restaurants, so being cherry picking again to support your flawed arguments?
Last time I checked Central had about 12 operating hours every day. How many times you had to wait for a table at 3.30 PM on a Tuesday?
You see the shops full, and I see them way below capacity, but have your views anymore value than mine on this forum?
I think it was clear form the comments of the Chief Executive of the Central Group Tos Chirathiwat that actually things aren't going as expected, and I doubt his comments were a publicity stunt.
I have no idea about the success of Laem Chabang and Tukcom Chonburi. Have you been there? Where do you get your information?
Being close to Sukhumvit makes it easier access for Pattaya residents both Thai and expat, who live away from the center of town. Last time I looked Pattaya has a big population of Thai residents who are not poor and live in houses.
I'm not making "flawed arguments" as you call them. I'm observing Thais spending a lot of money in Central Mall everyday of the week and addressing your "flawed arguments" that Thai mall visitors are not spending or have no money to spend.
Your twisted agenda seems to be wanting malls in Pattaya to fail to justify your "flawed arguments".
Some people on this forum travel further than the edges of Sukhumvit Pattaya, so yes Ive been many times to Tuckcom Chonburi and Harbor Laem Chabang as well to other malls of the group at other locations in Thailand.
Of course I am aware that there are many Thais living in Pattaya, though my experience is that the majority lives in 2000 Bht/month rooms, and another big part in cheap rented houses. I don't consider that as a qualification for big spenders.
Can you please explain how you observe Thais spending a lot of money at Central every day. Do you spend most of the day, every day at Central, observing customer behavior?
Do you check their wallets or receipts, and do you have several associates monitoring the hundreds of other shops, as I understand with so many shops on separate floors it can not be an easy task for a single observer.
By the way, you forgot to answer my question how many times you have to wait for a table at 3.30 PM on a Tuesday.
To conclude, even if Central is as successful as you claim, that doesn't guarantee anything for Harbor or any other mall in the area, because even in Thailand trees don't grow into heaven and people can only spend as much money as they earn. So opening an extra mall doesn't give them any extra spending power.
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Theres no two ways around it, this poor bastard will forever be the butt-end of jokes back home if his family and friends catch wind of this and see the pics on PattayaOne.
Gotta be creative to explain to your wife why you were out on Beach Road by yourself at 3am...
And you gotta be REAL creative to explain to your mates why you were pissing and shitting yourself...
Does it say anywhere that he has a wife?
Should everyone on holiday expected to be in bed at 3am?
Let me get a few ladyboys kick the shit out of you, and then you can explain why you shit yourself.
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I'm sure you guys already noticed who jumped in quickly with the " move on , nothing to see here" posts.
Yup, it are the 25000 Baht monthly electricity bill and the Elite with the exotic sports car members.
Is that a coincidence?
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Don't trust BEIN if you want to watch F1 with English commentary, they really cut to the bone
Missing the grid run down and only connecting on the warmup lap,
In Melbourne they cut the winner's interviews for a load of advertising of football matches
They really do not care for or understand their English speaking f1 fans
The alternate arabic channel has much better coverage.
Why would one even bother with Bein Sports for F1, when Sky Sports F1 gives full coverage of everything F1.
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Holy crap, traffic in/out today was insane. Even the bikes had to wait forever. Everybody walking around but shops were empty. Only first time lookers. Nothing special to see inside, doubt I will go back.
Only a select few members see the shops full of people and think Thais have unlimited money sources so they just spend all day whenever a new mall opens.
But the reality is that most Thai people just make it a day out, and the gasoline from Bangkok to Pattaya and maybe a burger and an ice cream is all they spend that day for the simple reason that they don't have more to spend.
LOL. At Central I've had to wait for a table at a number of restaurants on the 5th and 6th floors, at 8:30 PM!... weekends AND week days... mostly full of Thai people spending plenty. I don't know where they come from, but I see plenty of Thai people spending lots of money every day of the week... and not only in the restaurants. Due to easier access from Sukhumvit Road I'm sure Harbor Mall will do very well from Thai people and won't be relying on tourists.
When following your reasoning, then I wonder why harbor mall Laem Chabamg and Tukcom Chonburi are not doing so well with Thai people, however they are even easier to access for Bangkok people. You may have noticed that the majority of the visitors this weekend carried Bangkok license plates on their cars.
Then, Central is a completely different animal then Harbor mall.Take away the tourists in Central and leave only the Thai people in there and your views especially on weekdays will be completely different.
By the way, 8.30 PM is peak time for restaurants, so being cherry picking again to support your flawed arguments?
Last time I checked Central had about 12 operating hours every day. How many times you had to wait for a table at 3.30 PM on a Tuesday?
You see the shops full, and I see them way below capacity, but have your views anymore value than mine on this forum?
I think it was clear form the comments of the Chief Executive of the Central Group Tos Chirathiwat that actually things aren't going as expected, and I doubt his comments were a publicity stunt.
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Holy crap, traffic in/out today was insane. Even the bikes had to wait forever. Everybody walking around but shops were empty. Only first time lookers. Nothing special to see inside, doubt I will go back.
Only a select few members see the shops full of people and think Thais have unlimited money sources so they just spend all day whenever a new mall opens.
But the reality is that most Thai people just make it a day out, and the gasoline from Bangkok to Pattaya and maybe a burger and an ice cream is all they spend that day for the simple reason that they don't have more to spend.
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"If you're not going to let illegal immigrants do the jobs they are currently being hired to do, then farmers will have to raise wages to replace them."
"Since farmers are taking a risk in hiring immigrant workers, you can bet they were getting a significant deal on wage costs relative to "market wages".
"I put market wages here in quotations,
because it's quite possible that the wages required to get workers to do the job are so high that it's no longer profitable for farmers to plant the crops in the first place."
"Importantly, the more competitive the final goods market (meaning the market for the product that the workers are being hired to make) the flatter the labor demand curve will be.
If the market is competitive, then a small increase in prices will cause buyers to shift to a competitors products."
"This means that a firm's (or in this case, a farmer's) profits are sensitive to small shifts in input prices."
"In the case of agriculture, where one farmers crops are usually very comparable with another farmers, the market will be highly competitive and the demand curve will be flat."
"This problem is even more exacerbated when the demand is for Georgia farmers in particular, since retailers who buy their products can shift to farmers in competing states."
"All of this is to say if you're going to stop illegal immigrants from doing a job you should be prepared for the job"
"Short term"? Losing billions in one state alone?
Truly the most ridiculous, simplistic statement I have read in a very long time.
"This problem is even more exacerbated when the demand is for Georgia farmers in particular, since retailers who buy their products can shift to farmers in competing states."
Do you mean competing states that don't use illegal workers? Following your reasoning, how can those states be competing?
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not enough information.
drunk by what margin?
I think that's important.
Agree - what is drunk?
I'd feel a lot safer if I knew the driver had had three beers and driving carefully than a sober driver driving recklessly.
Many people particularly the older experienced driver, whether the esteemed members here agree or not, can drive quite sensibly after 3 or 4 beers.
Anyone who thinks that everyone becomes a lunatic behind the wheel after 3 beers is living in the world of fantasy and have been brainwashed by the do-gooders in the nanny state.
Legally drunk - probably, to the point of being a danger - most likely not.
Combine drink and speed and you have a very different story indeed.
Agree, and one of them posted just above this post.
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Georgia's Harsh Immigration Law Costs Millions in Unharvested Crops
"After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover,
that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia."
"Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions,
melons and other crops unharvested and rotting in the fields."
"It has also put state officials into something of a panic at the damage they've done to Georgia's largest industry."
Maybe the proud Americans could consider to do the work themselves, but no that isn't written in the book of a Republican supporter.
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What question am I refusing to answer?
Like I said - no. I don't drink and drive. Never have. Never will.
I'm not sure where you think this little interrogation is going.
The fact alone that you refuse a simple question proves that you are just a keyboard warrior.
Over and out
What question am I refusing to answer?
Not sure if you have reading disabilities so here is the question for the third time. A simple yes or no will suffice.
never in your life previously have you driven a car after having only TWO beers Right?
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What question am I refusing to answer?
Like I said - no. I don't drink and drive. Never have. Never will.
I'm not sure where you think this little interrogation is going.
The fact alone that you refuse a simple question proves that you are just a keyboard warrior.
Over and out
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No. I don't drink and drive.
If for some reason I did have my car with me and ended up in a pub, I'd just order a coke or something.
It's not exactly rocket science this, is it?
Why you refuse to answer my question, and just talk around it?
never in your life previously have you driven a car after having only TWO beers Right?
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The following is the opening paragraph of an open letter from a month ago. 121 Republican nat'l security experts signed originally, but others have signed since it was published. The letter's title:
OPEN LETTER ON DONALD TRUMP FROM GOP NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS
"We the undersigned, members of the Republican national security community, represent a broad spectrum of opinion on America’s role in the world and what is necessary to keep us safe and prosperous. We have disagreed with one another on many issues, including the Iraq war and intervention in Syria. But we are united in our opposition to a Donald Trump presidency."
An excerpt; "He (Trump) is fundamentally dishonest."
Boomer's note: The letter articulates several foreign policy issues where Trump either doesn't know what he's talking about, and/or is putting forth proposals which are opposed to US experts and/or the best interests of Americans. Also, US embassies and consulates around the world are hearing concerns from local leaders - worried about a possible Trump presidency.
Who wouldn't be concerned if they saw their future at the trough jeopardized. What they are scared of is that similar opinion parties in their countries are already scoring high in polls. If Trump wins the presidency all those parties will get an extra boost and bring them to the top at the elections. And it is about time.
I don't understand your post. Are you assuming the open letter referred to above is signed by non-Americans? It's signed by Americans, Republican members of the 'national security community'. I reckon that means people working directly or indirectly with Nat'l security issues.
Trump can stick his nose up at all those people (he can also call them 'losers' and other denigrating epitaphs) but it doesn't change the fact that many Republican foreign policy professionals are royally turned off by (and spooked by) the idea of The Donald having his finger on the buttons of 77 nuclear bombs. The same man who incites his followers to beat people up at rallies. Well, at least he's not a depressed alcoholic like Nixon. I guess that's one consolation.
I was reffering to the last line of your post.
Also, US embassies and consulates around the world are hearing concerns from local leaders - worried about a possible Trump presidency.
Why the US politicians are scared is actually the same reason, because they will miss out at the trough but by the way have you ever encountered a republican that wasn't fundamentally dishonest?
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But then there are those days where you don't plan during breakfast that by coincidence you may meet a friend somewhere at the end of the day and have 2 beers.
Then either leave the car where it is, or have a soft drink instead of a beer.
So I take it that after only TWO regular beers in 60 minutes you refuse to drive the car and will take a taxi. Right?
I wouldn't have taken my car with me in the first place.
You change the subject. It was said that the meeting was unplanned.
And please also kindly answer my second question, which you have missed because I edited the post.
never in your life previously have you driven a car after having only TWO beers Right?
Gold bullion
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That's why I opened this thread, to find a reputable trader, who sell bullion certified by an accredited international institution so my paperwork should always be in order.