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Gone are the days that you could have flown with AA to almost anywhere for peanuts,

I started flying with them back when a retune flight Bkk-Melb use to cost like $400-500

including food, seats and 20 Kg luggage that were built in, now days, the honeymoon is

over and they try to get every bit of money they can get from you with add-ons that used

to be included in the fare,

the bottom line is, 2 months a go I booked a return flight with AA Bkk-Melb for the Jan

for b.21,000 including food, seats and 30Kg luggage, while the other airlines charging

b. 35-38,000 fro the same flight, and all you have to do is monitor their website for the

best deals and book in advance, AA is not an airline for book today fly tomorrow,

Dose any one have knowledge or an experience with debts/checks clearing/collecting agency

that collect dishonored checks on a commission here in Bkk?

The legal way is to involve lawyers, police and courts whether be it criminal or civil, but

I'm looking for a quicker resolution to the issue and to avoid dealing with dodgy lawyers,

crooked police and indifferent magistrates...

I believe you are entitled to the minimum government compulsory insurance for injuries which is 15,000 or 30,000 Baht, can't remember. It all depends how much you push the police to bring the case to a conclusion, assuming you can identify the motorcyclist.

It's actually up to b.50,000 of the Po Lo Bo compulsory insurance, and if you can get his m/cycle

license number, report to the police, you can sue him in court for any other health related expenses

incurred following the accident...

I have just opened an GoalSaver term deposit accounts (minimum AUD $ 95K ) in

the Commonwealth bank of Australia as a non-resident account at 4.01% pa with 10% withholding

tax deduction, and considering all other similar products around, that is the best I could find so far,

And the purpose of all of this is????? what to play 'guess the hotel I'm in' ???

All I can say that we're witnessing a road carnage and a wholesale proportion's death numbers

as it's unfolding over the next 6 days, a known tragedy that is expected to happened, a toll that

is being paid year after year, may the almighty have mercy on the one about to fall...

I'm just hoping that maybe thisyear the numbers will be lower than the last...

My pet peeve when shopping in Thai shops, showing an article on display and not having it

in stock, asking for a certain size or color only to be shown something completely different,

having something on display that is clearly out of date or style but the shop owner wants full

price for it... Shall I go on...?

This is a question for the ages, no concrete can be given,, really up to self worth

of the individual...

Don't get involved in any potential legal headache, you're a foreigner, they're foreigners,

and in case of legal problems the court system will serves you right here, not your language,

not your mother land, cash or loan from Thai bank, don't sell any other way...

Dangle a bunch of baht in front of a rural girl, plus some empty promises for good time

and riches and she follow you anywhere....

Follow the money, the influential business people and the dozens or so mafia groups

that are controlling what is going on in Pattaya, definitely not the city hall... there

are just for show...

Life in Thailand is cheap, grieving families not wanting to create 'scene' bury their dead

and continue with life, no uproar, no graveness, no demand for investigation, and until

this situation will change where someone will have to be ultimately liable for the carnage

and lack of safety measures put in place to insure the safety of the traveling public, it will

continue to be like that.... life in Thailand is cheap...

whether is the girl's fault of trusting the locals of the 'land of smiles' or not, no body deserve

such treatment just for being gullible and friendly, I hope the bib will catch up with the

culprits and throw the book at them...

Rule of thumb when buying precious stones from unknown sources, no bargains out there, if it's

too good to be true, it's probably is, and lastly, don't buy diamonds or gem stones if you are not

sure what you're buying, stick to what you know, there are lots of charlatans out there that will

be only too happy to separate you from your money..

If it wasn't for the motorcycle taxi, I be missing very important appointment with my doctor,

at least this city have an alternative transportation mode to get you out of situation like this one..

Today was told by a Thai realty agent that the government announce that starting next year

there will be significant reductions in some of the taxes payable when selling/buying a property

in Thailand,, any body heard such declaration from creditable source?

..... and 22 Russian Tour Guides...the only tour you will get from these 'tour guide' is the tour of

the inside of a bar/go go lunge.....

feel sorry for them ... and stuck with a Government who does not care about it's people

Hey yingluck ... while you are touring Isaan andd staying in 6 stoar hotels .... your people are freezing

How about selling a few HERMES bags and buy your people some blankets?

I think she wear and uses Prada products...Hermes aren't pricy enough..

It would be very helpful if any one knows of an insurance policy that covers the rider and pillion

against mega hospital bills like mine, in a sense, I was lucky that the guy who hit me had a third

party insurance as many vehicles are on the roads now days with no insurance at all save for

the compulsory/mandatory third party coverage that every vehicle must have known as the po lo bo.

I intend to do some searching around for such coverage and will post results if any..

I have ben riding motorcycles since I was 16, and that is many, many moons ago, riding any thing

from scoots to powerful choppers .... I have never been involved in any serious accidents as this one,

as far as I know there aren't insurance policy that will cove a m/c rider for such large sums of medical bills,

the most maybe 50-100,000, the thing is that I did the right thing and got an estimate cost for the surgery,

in writing, to be safe that I will not be out of pocket, and than the bill arrived, a whopping b. 150,000

more than the estimate, now, nothing can prepare you for that, all is left to do is to see is how the hospital

will recover the cost from the insurance company and what will it cost me out of pocket,

On a lighter note, it seems that the surgeon who worked on me did a cracking job, and I'm happy

with the results...

An update....

Had the operation don yesterday at Bumrungrad, sourly face nurses, cocky surgeon attitude,

b.10,000 a night for room only, and despite prior cost estimate at b. 210,000 it ballooned somehow

to b.355,000 just because they had to use bigger more expensive metal rod to mend the arm,

to which I have told the cashier who come to collect the extra fees that I wish some one would have

told me about the cost deviation and allow me to make an inform decision where to have the

operation so I will not be out of pocket, she seems to sympathies and said she will take it with

the insurance people..

For all we know he can be working for some US spying agency.. who's to tell?

Do we really know how those spooks thinks and operate? time will tell...