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15 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

If ever there was a country that absolutely needed a totally driverless car system, it would be Thailand. Even at today's level of the technology, the death rate would plummet.

...unless the AI for the driverless cars is written by Thais.........!

19 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

It's kind of hard to follow the rules when they keep changing. Even harder to follow the rules when you have a full-time job, and the username and password they said they'd issue you with within 7 working days, still hasn't been issued over 3 weeks later. 

 

But thanks. I feel so much better knowing that someone else doesn't find it difficult to do. Now everything is magically okay for me. 

 

 

Don't hold your breath.

The username/password they sent doesn't work (at least for me) and after trying all combinations and variations, I tried the forgotten password link on the mobile App.  That tells me that the email that i am using is not valid, despite my having received the confirmation and finally the username/password to that very same email!

I tried to log in through the web address (https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn24online/) and I can log in there using the same email but still get nowhere!

Trying the forgotten password link there simply tells me that I am succesful but does not send a link or anything useful, it just goes back to the log in page in an endless loop.

<deleted>, as usual.

1 minute ago, Peterw42 said:

From memory, the 1st password is for one login and you are then prompted to change it, maybe that dialog was blocked by a pop-up blocker.

Most reports are problems getting the password, no reports of PW not working.

Thanks Peterw42.

I got a mail with a new username (as opposed to the email I used) and a password. Neither of them work, at least so far but I have only tried from the mobile app (Android).

Anyone know of a weblink that can be used instead?

18 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

I imagine so, I was more pointing out that you cannot just pop online and do a report unless previously registered.

i registered but the log in and password they sent doesn't work.

What a crock of sh1t

I've been here, on and off, for over 10 years.  I have never, ever bothered with a TM30 as I normally stay at my house in Nontahburi or the other one in Lampang.

Right now I am working in Myanmar and coming home every couple of months, still using my retirement extension.

This hoopla caused me to register for the online App on Saturday, to which I got a slightly delayed reply and request to confirm my email address.

Yesterday I received the Username and password but, guess what, they don't work!

I'll take my chances when I leave again in 10 days to go back to Yangon.  I can at least show that I tried to do it right and I did register.

How do they manage to get it so wrong most of the time?  It's almost as if it was by design!

Is there a link for doing this on their website too?  Maybe it's my App!

13 hours ago, jackdd said:

Section 37 = form TM28 not TM30

Foreigners who entered Thailand under section 34, this is probably everybody here, are exempt from this 24 hours reporting when going to another province under section 37.

 

The author should understand the laws before making a petition about them.

Also, someone should re-write the petition before sumission as the English is pretty bad!

Not playing grammar police but, given that the Thai's (mis) use of English is often the source of ridicule on this very prominent forum, I think that any such petition should be asolutely correct.

Good luck with it!

1 hour ago, howbri said:

From San Fran. Maybe Pelosi's sons?

I'm sorry, but that was a ridiculous, uneccessary comment.

Very stupid. Grow up.

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Finally, a Thai person who live in real Thailand and not the make believe by the dreamers and self deniers and  sees this country for what it's really is, a beautiful country indeed, but far from being intelligent, not in human material quality or technology, not yet anyway...

Ahh, if only that were the truth Ezzra. 

I think the real motivation behind his statements are a bitterness that he is now being denied a prime seat at the trough from which he has so richly feasted!

No memorial as it will dig up the memories that the Thai goverment has tried so hard to bury.

Besides, there are plenty of Chinese left to come and get ripped off or die.

Good report but fundamentally wrong!

This is not shameful but SHAMELESS!

Unfortuately, a common enough feature in the Thai psyche.

They can rob you blind while looking you in the eye and smiling.

How would they crew it?

Thais are ridiculously afraid of ghosties and such.

I would think that their primitive fear of the ghosts of so many dead on that boat would prevent them from being able to sail it?

However, I guess sufficient cash would be enough to bring them to a more realistic belief (or non-belief) in spirits?

I like it here.  Mind you, I have lived a long, long time in Africa where you can live for up to 90% of the time on generators.

Yangon traffic is nowhere near as bad as Lagos.

The people are simply very nice.

Accomodation ve expensive compared to Thailand.

Still, I am seriously considering starting a business here.

17 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I did say the trend started a long time ago. Obama was beholden to corporations. But, as we all know, he was able to say no occasionally. Trump never has met a lobbyist he could say no to. Not once while president. I am doing your bidding. What can I do for you sir? He is totally sold out. Body, mind and soul.

What mind?  What soul?

It goes without saying that, despite the extremely average wages that civil servants get paid here, everyone expects his family to be very wealthy!

Thailand!  LMAO

Sincere condolences.

5 minutes ago, Olmate said:

The 400k is not yours if via such a loan , no different to an agent loan. 

If it is a loan , especially if secured against your collateral, it IS yours.  I beieve that the agent loans are, pretty much, just for the day of the renewal only?

This arrangement would be a yearly loan arrangement between a bank and the borrower, no different to any other type of loan arrangment except, in this case, it is more of a secured facility as opposed to an actual withdrawable amount.

I take your point though.

5 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

Thai banks will not give loans to foreigners unless there is collateral in their name, or a Thai guarantor.

What's to stop the foreigner just leaving the country?

Thanks Joe, but the whole point of this is that although it "might" be quantified as a loan, the foreigner will never have the opportunity to actually withdraw the money because they won't have access.  This is put into what is called a compte nanti (or pledged account).

But you raise a good point too:  I have bought a couple of properties, which are (happily) in my wife's name.  I'd be completey happy to use these as ollateral, especially if I know that the principal sum cannot be touched and there is, therefore, no risk to our collateral.  That facility would be worth a reasonable monthly fee.

14 hours ago, ocddave said:

You suck it up, and deal with whatever else is going on without touching the "400 Thousand baht". Like take a loan out, whatever you have to do, if you want to stay.

That's not a terrible idea.

I would think that if you can prove to a bank that you have a pension fund or income, maybe a history of residence in thailand and, probably, some level of property ownership in Thailand, then it could be a nice little earner for an enterprising Thai bank to offer the correct type of account with the requisite funds in an account that you, as the borrower, cannot even access.

Zero risk and a nice little interest earner.

The bank maintains the funds according to your individual timeframe, allows no access without exeptional bank approval and charges interest monthly.

If you fail to pay the monthly interest, then the bank simply pulls the facility and you screw yourself up.

What's the current bank loan interest rates in Thailand?

A rate that lies around the difference between the deposit interest rate and the 12 month loan term rate might work?

Just my tired old brain clunking and grinding.........

-addendum:  Of course, this being Thailand and if such a financial instrument could be n place, I am pretty sure that the banks would actually push for even higher pledged amounts in these accounts so as to increase thier risk free interest payments.

1 hour ago, puukao said:

TATTOO....... Big Tattoo.......It's a super obvious sign of a moron.  Yea, whatever, maybe 0.0009% are OK, but I doubt it.

 

get mad at me all you want.....but do a cross-check in the database of super losers and lots of tattoos........99.9991 percent

 

I would put the damages at 2 million.  

 

thailand number 1 for idiot farangs.....number 1

1 hour ago, puukao said:

TATTOO....... Big Tattoo.......It's a super obvious sign of a moron.  Yea, whatever, maybe 0.0009% are OK, but I doubt it.

 

get mad at me all you want.....but do a cross-check in the database of super losers and lots of tattoos........99.9991 percent

 

I would put the damages at 2 million.  

 

thailand number 1 for idiot farangs.....number 1

"I would put the damages at 2 million.  "

Hey!  Let me sell you a speedboat!