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3 hours ago, alofthailand said:

As long as Thai girls are available - tourism will prevail

 

i have noticed the number of new girls coming through is declining and i wonder if this is due to them going online looking for 'boyfriends' see even the older ones just sitting in their bars looking through their phones. 

wonder how these figures are are calculated. if i lost a family member i would rather have the perps caught and punished. perhaps some of the money can be used as a reward to catch the bombers. no? what? it just goes straight to the cops. ah yea, that system does not work in thailand.

if he is guilty will the police have to charge themselves with aiding and abetting the escape of a criminal? do the cops really have the power to arrest a monk?

cops are following the same pattern of multiple often confusing and sometimes conflicting statements as the shrine bombing. would be nice if the right people to be held accountable for this. 2 weeks on and the case is going no where but cold. dont want to blame the reds, dont want to blame the southern insurgents. gotta find someone to blame. finding 20 patsies is going to be a big task.

cops have destroyed the reward system by collecting previous rewards them selves. the monetary incentive to help is now gone. thainess involves staying out of everything  so your on your own now coppers.

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

No, True did not give any of his money to the thief, the bank did that. True reissued his SIM card to the thief without requiring to see his National ID card and he was able to use that. It was really a case of 3 parties being rather negligent, including the victim himself. You seem to presume the seller of a weapon is guilty of any crimes it is used in.

the seller of a firearm has to follow laws in the country they are operating in. record identification or sight the firearms licence etc. true did not follow the procedure, they are at fault. the bank was just following their efficient safety measures. how can anyone blame the bank? cant blame the poor shmuch who lost his money. he should have been covered by the safety measures from the institutions he pays to use. blame the thief, ok but again it should never have happened due to true employees not following procedure.

1 hour ago, captspectre said:

Thai males will not fight man to man unless there are three of four to one! it is just a plain fact that thai males fighting hand to hand one on one is extremly rare!

is any woman really worth that much hassle? maybe it is a pride thing. walking away to a nice simple single life must surely be the best solution.

2 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

" They have offered the victim of the crime a phone and free calls for a yea ".   TRUE should have paid the million, not Kasikorn. Or at least 50 50.

there should be no 50 50. true was at fault giving out a sim card to the wrong person.  bank security systems are very good and work if the telephone companies do their job properly.

3 hours ago, Thian said:

Last week i saw a documentary about the skytrain in a big city in China. They built it through a condominium and even made a station in the building.

 

It was the only way to build that skytrain since there was no space left.

 

Inhabitants of the condo's were given a very cheap rent plus a lifetime membership for the skytrains so they were all happy.

 

This skytrain is doomed if they don't connect it directly to the old green lines.

gotta hand it to the chinese, when they they decide to fix a problem it gets fixed. thailand seems to be trying to copy chinas political system with a single political party. wonder if it will work, not looking promising so far.

17 hours ago, gdgbb said:

 

Your sarcasm is misplaced as you were the one that asked the questions about comparatively inconsequential matters.

ah, no see you missed the joke as no one one really cares about deck chairs or lottery tickets. general needs to try to sort out the farming and manufacturing sectors before he starts worrying about small things that dont really bring happiness to the people.

7 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

Answers to your questions...yes, lottery tickets are sold at the correct price.   Yes, where deckchairs were intended to be permanently removed they have been.  Certain areas are allowed to have them.  Yes, there are millions of tourists to use not only the deckchairs.

mr general is the man. sounds like he has all the small things sorted. time to move onto some of the bigger things.

6 minutes ago, Franky Bear said:

Maybe, but my own view this is about the South and not Reds. I may be very wrong though.

yes we are all guessing for now. in my opinion the yellows have not given the reds any other option. if it was the reds then i can see it going  on for a long time before the army backs down. if it was insurgents from the south then i suspect that it will never end.

near burri ram the nice green rice fields are turning yellow with a lack of rain. was a great start to the wet season but has turned dry again. have to feel sorry for the farmers who invested time and money into crops they will probably not see any return.

of course out opinion of nice may vary but there are many condos for rent in jomtien for 6000thb per month. do a quick search online.

21 hours ago, Franky Bear said:

When has any terror organisation stopped bombing until they are jailed, killed or beaten?

maybe the bombings will continue until democratic elections resume.

thailand need to stick to what it knows. producing rice, providing cheap labor for foreign factories to produce exportable goods, and attracting tourists with budget holidays in the sun with a fling or 2 thrown i for good measure. thailand has had one of the best economies in asia based on these industries. now everything seems to be in decline.

another claim to action. does anything he say ever actually get implemented and the problem solved? are the lottery tickets actually being sold at the correct price? are the deck chairs gone? do we want them back? are there any tourist left to sit in them?

more politician double speak.

He said although there had been ups and downs, everything was moving in a forward direction. 

only thing that is moving forward is time.

9 minutes ago, mcfish said:

Dont listen to this poster!

Without exception crazy cheap=Crazy poor!!! Nirin complex in Pattaya a rat infested farang ghetto springs to mind full of desperates...

If she wants a condo and fittings furniture  the same as she has in Germany then the condos here are not cheap let alone "crazy cheap"

i rent a nice condo in pattaya for 6000thb per month fully furnished. friend of mine rents a whole house furnished for 8000/month. this is amazing value. rents have not gone up in the 9 years i have been in pattaya, in fact they seem to be going down while the values of the condos themselves seem to pretty much stay the same. (which means they are decreasing when adjusted for inflation) crazy. pattaya just seems to be getting better value as the years go by. crazy.

this guy has  taken complete control. he has seized control of the government, appointed himself prime minister, re written the constitution so that him and his mates will have control over any further elections in the future and he does not want any quarrels. yes everyone just shut up and mind your own business, everything is perfect now.

15 minutes ago, fxe1200 said:

Luckily he did not publish this event in social media.

this story is all over thai news. my girl has been following it for days. the bank at first offered to refund 1/3 of his money but once the media got onto the story they quickly agreed to a full refund.

3 hours ago, taichiplanet said:

no reason to hand over your ID number for a bank transfer, and definetly don't hand over any PIN; so the guy is at fault there. Also who in their right mind would leave 1 Million in an ordinary bank account (no interest fo one) and not put a daily limit on withdrawals. He should had a bank account that had no money purely for online deposits, an then easily transferred the incoming money yo another account that customers didn't know the account number. i guess the crim with the new SIM may have got a one off PIN but also circumnavigated any SMS alerts for bank withdrawals; quite clever.

 

Glad he got his money back but does sound he was a bit at fault. At best it sounds a gray area and i the bank wouldn't have paid if it hadn't done something wrong.

my business generally has over a million baht in the bank account. incoming revenue and money needed for stock means we need running capital and i am sure running a parts business they need the same. the problem here is the thief was able to get a new sim card to receive the pin number to make transactions maybe who ever gave him the sim card is really at fault.

43 minutes ago, Witblitz said:

 

No...under bank of Thailand regulations, a Thai bank will not give you a mortgage on a landed property simply because its illegal to own the land, therefore they would be financing something illegal..that why they don't do it

 

There is no rule which states a Thai bank cannot loan to a non-Thai,  A WP is only part of the requirement, the other is having a credit rating in Thailand which most farang don't, hence they reason they get knocked back and earning enough money of course

 

As stated in another post, I was offered a loan on condo by SCB upto THB 12.0 million some years back, which I never pursued and their reasoning was I had a credit history in Thailand and had co-signed on a mortgage through SCB for a Thai national  

i looked into it with krung thai. they said yes as long as you have had a work permit for a number of years. can remember how many it was. can only get a 10 year loan with a 50% deposit. think the interest rate was very high as well  so i decided not to do it. end result, your friend can not get a mortgage on property she probably should not buy.

On 8/20/2016 at 8:40 PM, stupidfarang said:

Very good advice, also she could rent her German property out (have the security in Germany) and then rent a condo or a house in Thailand, if she paid £2,500 a year in rent in Thailand x 25 years equals £62,500. It is a safer option and allows her to move to any part of Thailand if she gets bored with Jomtein or if she wants to move back to Germany. I live in a brand new 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house I rent for 8,000 per month (am in the South of Thailand).  In BKK was only paying £200 a month for a condo. 

this is more good advice on top of the previous good advice. buying property in thailand in my experience and most other peoples experiences has been a mistake. so crazy cheap to rent as well. when you want to move you can move, no waiting years to sell your property at a loss. thailand seems to be paradise but give it a few years and for many the shine wears off.

elite is the only full proof option. study visa is a far second best. i would say get a multi entry tourist visa first. come over and test the water. easy to get 6 month rentals or even 3 month ones as there are so many vacant properties and condos around. always go for a 3 month rental if possible. you want to be mobile. bad neighbors can ruin life over here. my mate does monthly rentals on condos in pattaya if you are going there.