HauptmannUK

LOL! Talk about getting things backwards - the whole point of the IDP is that its a standard format and therefore police don't need to read English! For any doubters out there someone sent me this very recent YouTube video. An English guy getting fined ฿500 on Pattaya Beach Road for no IDP. The relevant bit is at 10:36

I didn't see any suggestion they should only charge ฿20, but rather something more realistic than ฿1000. Keycards are consumables for a hotel. Buy a box of 100 and the cost falls to something like ฿12 each. They take seconds to program. I have a programmer - cost me about ฿600. The lock readers are around ฿400-600. This is not expensive technology.

฿1000 is greedy. The common re-writable 125kHz RFID cards are around ฿150 - 200 for a pack of ten. So no more than about ฿20 each.

Worrying too much. I've transported desktop PCs multiple times between UK and Thailand and UK and China. Just put into the cardboard box the tower case originally came in and check it in as normal. Never been stopped or questioned. Once too 25 PC motherboards to China in a cardboard box, along with loads of cables, PSUs etc in a big box. Over the years flown into BKK (mostly with Ermirates) with tools, power drill etc, trolley jack, couple of bikes, couple of HiFi systems, part of a car exhaust system etc etc. Been asked a couple of times 'what's in the box?'. Answered honestly and no further checks. Amazingly never had anything damaged in transit either. Only had trouble in India (they confiscated two Melton Mowbray pork pies) and Nigeria (confiscated a souvenir mug they said was a potential weapon!).