RopeySG

Terrific, thank you both for the confirmation. 

The IO told me not to spend any money from my account while the 400k is maturing, however I've had this account for a long time and i use it as a transactional account (with well over the 400k required in it for some time already) does anyone know if I can still use this account so long as it stays over 400k until my 1 year extension is approved? 

20 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

What an utterly ignorant and obnoxious post!

And fyi > the 'wasted' 1.900 THB is only tip-of-the-iceberg.

If the Amnesty is extended till October 31 and you made the effort to apply for the Embassy Letter supported 'special' extension, you would:

- have wasted quite some time/effort on getting that now unneeded extension;
- have to return to IO to get the 'under consideration' stamp changed into a valid - but once again needless - stamp (yes, once again time and effort wasted);

- possibly have problems for future Embassy letter extensions as some embassies/IOs have stated they will only issue/handle such special extension ONCE.

Note:

And if you planned to use that special extension as a spring-board for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa application, the 'under consideration period' will make that impossible, as you would get the actual (further useless) extension stamp too late to apply for that Non Imm O Visa (which requires at least 15 days left on your permission to stay when applying).

I am one of these people who intended to spring board off the extension to non-o, but i only received a an 'under consideration' stamp for the 6th Oct.

Would you have an opinion on whether i should try apply for the non-o tomorrow or would i get rejected based on the time? If i dont get the initial extension i applied for, is it still possible to apply for a 60 day family visit extension to springboard onto the non-o with?

16 hours ago, mike787 said:

All the time.  Nothing I can do, only accept this is life in LOS. Welcome to the kingdom. Enjoy your time here.  No other option. 

Well at least you will know now that the law will be on your side if there is a problem in this situation. Though the BiB may not be if you are farang... 

54 minutes ago, Motoko said:

Japanese imports too?

Yeah man, sells both used imports ex Japan and clones. The big toy mall near little India in Chinatown has a floor nearly all dedicated to these.

Example I saw the other day online, ex Japan Dreamcast with all standard accessories and modded to accept backups from SD card is under 2k baht on Lazada. 

Yeah there's a whole mall full of them in Chinatown, also online on lazada

The Mrs went to meet him at the police station today, he didn't show up. The police said in this situation because she was there first and he obstructed the lane to turn into, he's likely at fault. But he would need to hear the other guys side of the story to confirm. 

32 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

All I can assume in support of your Mrs if the scooter person has no witnesses and it wasn't reported to the police at the time of the incident then the scooter person has no case as I see it,  just ignore the incident and let others do the running around. 

Yeah that was my feeling at the time, but she's decided to get clarity from the BiB and will meet the scooter guy there. I will report back which way it goes as she seems to think the law is on her side here - but doesn't everyone. 

23 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

I guess it's the voluntary insurance that's ran out. 

Yes, elective insurance had lapsed. My mistake. Govt mandated insurance was ok

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Scooters will overtake on either side.

If you're driving a car, you need to watch out for them.

If she had no tax or insurance, it'll be her fault.

Tax was current, but insurance had lapsed. She misplaced her license too, so that's probably going to count against her also. 

2 minutes ago, 2long said:

You need eyes everywhere on the roads here. Right, left, right, forwards, behind and right again!

It's not the scooter rider's fault that you choose left only for your own safety.

Fair enough. 

2 minutes ago, 2long said:

A u-turn goes to the right, so in Thailand, that's the side to pass on. This means that if the scooter can and wants to travel faster than you, he might have the right to pass / undercut you. I know how frustrating it can be when driving a car to see these little things buzzing around and going through gaps. But having been a biker and car driver for more than 30 years, every story has two sides. There are many good and bad bikers and drivers alike. It's very easy to see it from your own point of view, and hard to see from others'.

He might have the right, that's why I thought I would check on here for similar experiences to help set expectations with my Mrs. 

4 minutes ago, jadee said:

Hi, I haven't had that exact thing happen (scooter on u-turn) but a couple of years ago I was pulling out of a junction and a guy on a scooter(moped - Honda click) shot between stationary cars and scratched across the front on my bumper.
Fortunately, I was being extremely careful and just inching out so he didn't come off (could have been so much worse) but he still insisted that I call insurance. I didn't have a dash cam at the time so I was worried, I waited for insurance, he spoke to me and then the guy, then said he wanted to go to the police station.
You can fairly imagine how worried I was, but I followed the insurance guy, went to the nearest police station. What happened was the police fined the biker for have no helmet or licence then called both me and the biker to the desk and asked what happened, decided I wasn't at fault and I left. 
So that's my advice; call insurance, go to the police station. 

Thanks a lot, it's my wife's car and shes let the insurance lapse somehow, so we've renewed it now but alas, too late to bring them in. She's Thai, so will have to let her sort it with the police and scooterer. Good to hear a positive story, my experience with the BiB has been mixed bag from great to awful. 

6 minutes ago, northsouthdevide said:

It may or may not be yours or your wife's fault. 

Every traffic collision has to be judged as an individual situation. 

Just because you're in a car, doesn't mean you have right of way over a scooter. 

It may not be your fault, but if this has happened more than once, and you haven't intentionally collided with the scooters, then I would suggest you be more vigilant when making a u-turn. 

Yes, I understand that. I'm not sure if you drive here, but the uturns are not well designed for visibility and the speed of drivers coming from your left, I'd much rather take the risk of not looking right than getting tboned by a speeding car for not seeing it on my left. 

A couple of times now I've knocked into scooters trying to undercut me as I'm turning through a u turn, fortunately nothing has ever come of it, they just pickup their scooter and ride away, but recently my wife had the same happen and this time, this guy wants to be paid money. I believe he's at fault, but will the police think so in this situation? Has this happened to anyone else here? 

Yes there are different prices between regions, sometimes even different content from the same game. If you don't have a local credit card, you could look to buy a prepay one such as the Air Asia one that works around the region and can be topped up using your foreign cards. Or try your local Thai bank debit card if its a visa/mastercard debit card.

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Im mid 30s, in bkk and play CS:GO during the day while the kids at school also, I'll DM you my steam ID later when Im near my pc and can find it.

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I had to import a steel potato masher, I couldn't find one after months of searching in Bangkok. I'm also looking for Slip n Slide which seems to be unavailable here too. Lastly while you can get BBQ equipment, it's really shitty stuff from Sweden or UK where they don't BBQ regularly so the tools especially the wire brushes fall apart after slight use and the costs of these items are significantly more than I would have expected to pay.

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