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Thank you for all your insightful comments and advice! Now comes a little surprise: I also have an account with Western Union. So just for interest I checked their rates. Slight problem: Transferlimit of €16000 per transaction (Bank to Bank option). So I tried for 500.000 Baht. Here is the result: I assume I will receive the €3.99 fee rebate only once, so in the middle you see my calculation for 2 transfers one rebated the other including €3.99 fee > total cost €27338.65 for 1 Million, or 13667.33 for 500K. Now I check with wise: €27493.95 (including fee 189.23€) for 1 Million, €13751.32 (including fee 97.24€) for 500K Which makes WU save me €155.30 or 5680 THB. I am quite surprised that WU beats Wise!

Is it the Bank Sells > D/D & T/T Rate > Euros that would be applicable?

I just looked at the fee from Wise for sending 1000000 THB: 190 Euro - wow! How can I get an indication for the rate that SCB gives when doing a SWIFT transfer in Euro?

You can transfer an esim to a special SIM card and then use it in most phones that don't support esims natively by simply putting the special SIM card in the standard SIM slot of the phone. For example 5ber: https://s.lazada.co.th/s.FKR0g Then via a special app from 5ber you can activate different esim profiles on the card. There are usually two versions of this card: one with limited changes allowed and thereafter you need to pay for changes and another with unlimited changes allowed for free.

Hello, next week I have to transfer 1 million bahts to an SCB account of a Thai national. The money is now in Euro. I hold standard free accounts with Wise, Revolut, and various European banks or brokers. Is there any one way that lets me save a significant amount of money? Thanks for our help.

As you can guess from the posts, we went ahead and bought two of the robot vacuum cleaners. If anybody is interested to buy one or two (for bigger discount) on their own, please see the links above.

I would be interested. I would add Auf der Au restaurant buffet, since it can make almost anyone happy.

Just discovered that it was sold on Amazon and there it has 4.4 rating: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSFSH5Z1

Hello, I have had my eyes on the global version Laresar Mars01 Robot Vacuum Cleaner with LDS Lidar Navigation App and Mop for hard floor and thin carpet. https://s.lazada.co.th/s.I2GT0 This unit has been reduced now to 4839 THB and I my trigger finger was itching. But then I noticed that Lazada and the store have a special discount which reduces the price to 3824 THB IF I BUY *TWO* UNITS! So I am looking for someone to go in with me. I live in the Chiang Phueak area. This is a very well equipped uni - I think something like this has been sold for 20000 THB just two years ago. Please check out the video and the unit's specs at https://s.lazada.co.th/s.I2GTO The store selling is a LazMall certified Flagship store, which is according to my knowledge the highest rating a store can have on Lazada. Plenty of replacement parts like brushes etc. are available for very little money on Lazada as well as on Ali. Please send me a PM soon if you are interested, since the deal finishes tomorrow and tomorrow I will be most of the day at immigration to get my extension.

Actually if you didn't need to show lease, you don't need to pay anything. I kind of remember that I didn't have residency certificate, so I showed them the lease. But all this was a long time ago well before Covid. But by the book every landlord is supposed to stick those tax stamps on a lease, but noone does. So when they see a lease without tax stamps, they stick them on and then you pay what supposedly the landlord has to pay. Probably when you have a residency cert they don't ask for a lease.

You go to the tax office and say you want a tax id. If they ask why, then you say you want to get back withholding tax from fixed deposit account. Bring signed lease, passport, and I think tm30 and resident certificate (not sure about the last 2). Be prepared to pay a little bit for them to validate signed lease by sticking tax stamps on the lease, which I am sure your landlord forgot.

So who is right: @CallumWK (Thai citizen online only) or @sometimewoodworker ("No, that isn’t required, you may be able to get 1.5%") ????

@sometimewoodworker Oh wow, 0.9% were a little bit disappointing. 1.5% sounds much better. I have a Krungsri savings account. Can I just apply for it in their app? EDIT: I just saw that there is a separate site where you can apply for Krungsri accounts: https://www.krungsrionline.com/BAY.KOL.WebSite/Common/cplus-app/how-to-apply-en.html And of course the big question is: Would CM immigration accept the online (I assume no passbook version) of this account for the 800k proof?

Thank you for your kind replies. I just want access to my money even when I am not in Thailand and still get a reasonable interest on the account, no need to pay international bills. It's enough if I can transfer part of the 800k when I am overseas from the interest bearing account to my savings account. I thought the Mee Tae Dai account of Krungsri can only be opened with a Thai ID card?