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First one you get is valid for 2 years then renew every 5 years can't remember price but not expensive. Lots of photo copies of your passport and certificate of residence you will need two one for car one for bike.

You are missing the fact that the new sized pack could well have been sold previously at the price advertised before the promotion in one of there stores. In which case it is correct and as you state you usualy buy elsewhere you may not have noticed the size reduction. Wonder when macro sell there stock if the next delivery will be of the smaller size

The price in one of their other stores has nothing to do with justifying a FALSE promotion.

I'm afraid it does as long as it's been sold by the supermarket at a certain price anywhere in the country it is not a false promotion but as there is no trying standards here afraid you will just have to live with it if the op does one less wash a week should last him

You are missing the fact that the new sized pack could well have been sold previously at the price advertised before the promotion in one of there stores. In which case it is correct and as you state you usualy buy elsewhere you may not have noticed the size reduction. Wonder when macro sell there stock if the next delivery will be of the smaller size

Most of the buy 1/2/3 promotions are a rip off make sure you check the single price first. Like big C 12 tins condensed milk looked good price worked it out 23bht per tin single tin price 19bht. !!! Trick by the way if you have a big shop in Lotus split it into 3 on checkout usualy get 70 to 100 bht off coupon which can be used for second bit then get another for third bit. As the money off tokens usualy only apply on the day you shop.

As Charlie H says.

And next time remember you are expected to pay unless you sort the details out beforehand

This is patently obvious nonsense! logically why should someone be expected to pay for a person they didn't invite to the dinner and don't even know,sorry you will never convince me it's not a calculated scam! designed to shame someone into paying for unwanted Guests ! It's best not to engage in this sort of Chicanary !

And finally would we tolerate this happening in our own country or culture ......I don't think so!

It's a "let's milk the stupid farang like the proverbial cow" ploy... work nearly every time.

For a start she is not even his GF as the OP states. To me by the sound of it, they both are in the "getting to know each other" stage, so why invited 3 or 4 others and expect the farang to pay?

To the OP.. this is a mighty red flag. Nothing to do with thai customs and cultures when a foreigner is involved, and especially when your not even in a relationship. If you allow this sh!!t to continue, you will be paying for the duration, and it gets worse from there.

To me its a disrespectful and opportunistic act.

Your better off eating alone, and let' face it, how much fun it is when you are sitting there and for the most part are not even part of the group other than there to take the bill.

If your not part of the group I venture to suggest you have no interest in the group to start with. When I go out with friends (Thai) I am always included my Thai is not brilliant nor is there English but that doesn't stop us trying. Sounds to me like you like to be alone or is that aloof.

Thanks for replies will have a look at shops next time I'm in town. Internet is not an option for me but thanks for advise.

Of course you need a set-top box except for the few TVs with a built in satellite receiver (unlikely).

Did you put a normal coax connector to the wire from the dish and connect to the aerial input?

That will do nothing!

have TV dtv ready

DTV sounds like terrestial digital TV. Different technology.

Bit of back ground have sat dish (true vision) have TV dtv ready. No normal arieal.

Question is do I need a set top box to be able to pick up thai free to view TV through the sat dish, have tried ie fitted cable fro sat dish to tv tried to tune nothing. So any help regarding this would be good don't want if possible to put an arieal up. Reason getting shut of true vision and have to hand back all equipment cheers

Yes, come and retire here. Just bear one thing in mind - LOVE IS NOT FOR FREE!

Correct. Love in Thailand is simply economics.

What a load of ballony darlings I've found love and it's as free here as it is anywhere else in the world.

But then if you sit in a bar tapping away on here you might have to pay.

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Like most beaches in the world after high tide

You're kidding, right?

He means like most tourist traps in 3rd World countries.

Obviously, this poster has never been to the beach in Santa Barbara, CA, 555

And like most "low information" tourists, has no clue what the beach at a remote fishing village is like, because they're too busy getting drunk in tourist slums.

Assumptions is a man's down fall.

Low information tourist !!!your so hi-so darling

Santa Barbara, CA now there's a whole thread on its own !! What a dump darling.

Bee to many so called tourist traps in 3 world countries dear.

Oh and just to mention darlings I don't drink

Xxxxx

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Like most beaches in the world after high tide

Glad I got in before the Thai woman/wife she will rip you off/steal from you/then go back to her thai husband brigade started to highjack this thread.

Went for a BBQ last time we was in Pattaya had the wife, mother in law , and father in law with us no problem as I invited them my treat. Now somewhere along the way the father in laws son (previous relationship) must have heard were we were going now notice I said Pattaya. Sat down in BBQ when he turns up with his wife, 3 sons, and two other people no one exept him seemed to know all came from Bangkok!!! Long story short all ate bill came given to my Mrs she looks at bill looks at me gets phone out uses calculator gets x amount of Bht from purse then informs the bangkokers that they need to put the rest in, there faces were a picture but they paid up. Has never happened again. Morale if you invite pay if others turn up dont

To all the do gooder TV lawyers, imagine that the girl was your daughter, and she had told you implicitly that she had been raped by the 'accused', how much sympathy would you have for him ?

I imagine, not a lot.

Sympathy no but I would want justice through the correct route not some other twisted vigilantis. The word Accused not guilty until proved.

As a last observation on this there are some sick mother ******* on this site. Be very sure you are never ACCUSED of anything. Pity really just sometimes this site can be useful but reading the vile inhumane posts on this story has made me realize I don't want to be part of it.

What goes around comes around.

I would have tied him to an ants nest first and then beaten him to death.

I hope you are never "accused" of a crime if that's the case.

Exactly...I have had 2 Thai gf tell me that if I broke up with them they would call the police and accuse me of rape...I realize the alleged victim here is an adolescent, but it isn't far fetched to imagine parents compelling their daughter to accuse someone for payment...after all, how many parents happily send their compliant daughters to the bar to pay for a new motorbike

Are you for real

I suspect the bloodlusters rounded on this story as the ACCUSED man was Thai. Would have been a completely diffrent type of thread if the Accused was Farrang. !!!!!!

As we will never know if he was innocent or guilty now, he will by the blood lusting sickophants (probably spelt wrong will wait for the sickophant gramer police) on here be guilty by default hey he is only Thai after all he must be guilty.

How can my old man be wrong your logic us so flawed ok so I rent the house out 2 bed village location I guess 7500 tops then I have to rent somewhere to live !!!! Awaiting response

Read below or don't. There's also a second follow-up paper. I spent most of 2000-2008 trying to get people to understand basic economics. I'm not going through that again.

http://www.andrewfarlow.com/part1ukhousing.pdf

Not interested in the jargon crap question is if I rent my house out here how do I make money as I have to have somewhere to live so ergo I have to rent 7500 rent from house if I'm lucky 7500 to rent somewhere makes no economic or common sense plus I expect elect/water would cost more in rented accom

Have tried several times no joy on any browser. Online reporting for me now firmly in the bin face to face for me.

Bought several houses over the years but never thought I'm ready to die !!!!

Here have took great delight and a lot of pride in building a house which we now live in no rent to pay as my old man once told me rent money is wasted money.

Your old man was wrong! If you own the property you are giving up the rent that you could receive if you rented it. Any economist or accountant would accept that, but few other people will, especially if they come from the UK.

And the difference is that in the end, you have the property if you buy!

If you rent you have nothing

buying ....you are not subject to rent increases, Landlord whims, can change the property anyway you want to suit you and you get the appreciation etc...

But as I said before ......It's NOT for everyone

The thing that always fascinates me is that people never think there is any "prior art" - they never think that anyone has ever thought about the issues before!

Trust me. If you don't want to trust me trust the UK civil service (who prepare the annual accounts) or the IFS or the entire profession of cost and management accountants.

I haven't the time to take every Brit through Accountancy 101, but trust me - you're wrong

How can my old man be wrong your logic us so flawed ok so I rent the house out 2 bed village location I guess 7500 tops then I have to rent somewhere to live !!!! Awaiting response

Rent is only wasted money if you are a young man. Over 50, rent is not wasted money compared to building or buying in Thailand.

Ok so let's do the maths then 50 yr old average life conservative 85 so 35 yrs rent our condo in pattaya 7500pm so that's 90,000 per year x 35 yrs 3,150,000.

2 bed two bath house including fixtures and fittings just a few bht short of 500,000bht so at 85 I'm 2,650,000 in pocket so how is renting better?? Stable home no moving around rented to rented. Now before you say but I can't own it or land I have a 50 year lease on land from wife (hers as wedding gift from family. I have yellow book which means nothing as such but if things happen and we divorce ect although I wouldn't I can demand half or sell house to recover. But house is for my family here and now when I'm gone they have stability.

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Great thundering balls of fire, why do posters on TV always assume a farang has to live in a condo? A room in a nice Thai apartment block in Pattaya cost me 5,000 a month, and where I live now can get one for 2-3 thousand.

Anyway, not everyone wants to stay in the same place rest of their life, ESPECIALLY when retired.

What are you going to do if they set up a rock grinding factory next door- you know you won't get it stopped TiT.

Let's say he buys in Pattaya, meets a nice girl and goes to live in the village- can't sell the place as no buyers now and can't rent at a decent price as hundreds of condos/ houses on the market. Where's your calculations now?

BTW most men retire at 65, so that's only 20 years not 35 years

To answer your comments I don't presume I used my situation I rented a condo 7500pm (My choice) I am 55 yrs old and retired that's the age you can retire here (my choice) so 35 yrs in my case. I didn't buy I built not in pattaya in Khon Kaen. No chance of factories next door I bought land around house. So as you say don't presume until you have the facts thankyou

Sorry, but my reply wasn't specifically about you, which is why I said why do posters on TV . You aren't the first and you won't be the last to apparently assume all farangs want to live in a condo or a house. If that's not what you meant, apologies.

So my reply applies to the many cases where resident do aquire an all night karaoke next door.

BTW, rock grinding factories pollute the air for miles and I assume you haven't bought that much land around the house. Just a mo. Are you a Thai citizen, because if you aint you are not buying any land, and it's illegal to buy it in your wife's name.

Thank you for your corrections on post firstly it is not illegal for Thais to buy land and then lease it to me certainly not illegal for my wife to buy land using her own money. Have you got a thing about rock grinding factories!!!!! I am 100%sure the afore mentioned factories won't be appearing here.

You did say that YOU had bought the land!!!!!

There was a big fuss in Rayong some years back when a rock grinding factory set up shop near a residential area. It's a good example of what can happen and why I don't recommend buying.

I usualy say me, should have said we, but when married what's hers is hers and what's mine is hers LOL

That's me out he's a Troll

For a car? Impossible.

No, for a nearly new Toyota Hilux pick-up truck.

I think the unbelievability on the part of some TV posters lies in the fact that they haven't stepped out of their hermetically-sealed bubble of Bangkok or the BTT (Big Tourist Traps). They should do so before implying that I am a liar or ignorant.

Sure, you're going to pay first-world expenses in your pseudo-Thai locations. Deal with it.

So can I presume you are not going to share this great deal and company with anyone else????? Ps I've never been to bangkok....

So you're admitting that you live in one of the Big Tourist Trap farang enclaves?

Negative all I was saying is I've never been to bangkok but as you ask I'm not afraid to answer questions and share information something you for some reason (I suspect because you can't supply information as it doesn't exist) but I live in a small village in Issan no where near any Farang conclave that you refer to

No offence intended - but there is simply no way you are getting 1st class, or comprehensive, cover in Thailand for 996 Baht year.

Either you looked at the wrong bill, or you don't have it.

Simple as that, Period, End of story etc

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Well I am. THAT'S the end of the story. Sorry.

For a car? Impossible.

No, for a nearly new Toyota Hilux pick-up truck.

I think the unbelievability on the part of some TV posters lies in the fact that they haven't stepped out of their hermetically-sealed bubble of Bangkok or the BTT (Big Tourist Traps). They should do so before implying that I am a liar or ignorant.

Sure, you're going to pay first-world expenses in your pseudo-Thai locations. Deal with it.

So can I presume you are not going to share this great deal and company with anyone else????? Ps I've never been to bangkok. May I suggest you double your medication. Or check yourself in to the funny farm best wishes

What a bunch of know-it-all skeptics, albeit ignorant as a buffalo.

It's COMPREHENSIVE.

They've already paid out 12,000B for a damaged gas tank when I hit an obstruction.

No offence intended - but there is simply no way you are getting 1st class, or comprehensive, cover in Thailand for 996 Baht year.

Either you looked at the wrong bill, or you don't have it.

Simple as that, Period, End of story etc

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Well I am. THAT'S the end of the story. Sorry.

That's a great price don't want to appear nosey but can you tell me or pm me the name of insurance company or the Brooker you use please thanks