JBChiangRai

"Whataboutery"?? My post was filled with facts, specifically a very detailed description about how the scam works. You can't be scammed if you don't pay COD, Lazada has your back.

How would you know? he may have copied the lazada logo and the courier company don't care, the parcel label states the contents are what you ordered on Lazada, the weight is about right and the courier won't let you open it till you've paid. If you open the parcel in front of the courier, he is not going to give you your money back, he's not allowed to. You have to file a complaint with the courier company and hope they don't pay the scammer too quickly, the scammer usually picks a courier company that release funds to him immediately the courier has a POD. Expand and see above, Where your process goes wrong is when the seller is a crook, the courier has paid the seller who disappears into the wide blue yonder with your money.

You’re missing the point. When something is sent to you COD it may not have been sent through the Lazada platform. The seller may ship COD direct (he is given your name and address) and cancel your order on the Lazada platform just before timeout, Lazada can’t handle a return because there is no corresponding sale for them to process. This is currently the leading COD scam. I have returned lots of things and always been refunded, but all paid non COD.

The problem is it might not be Lazada holding on to your cash.

I have had to return lots of items, from fake phones to broken goods, it's never an issue when Lazada are holding your money, I have no idea how much trouble I would have had if they were COD. I would rather Lazada hold my money than a courier.

The answer to your question is 1. My maid signed and paid for a parcel when nobody was here. I hadn’t ordered it, neither had my 2 daughters, but we typically get 2 or 3 deliveries weekly. So she thought she was being helpful. The courier wouldn’t let her open it first, it was a stone wrapped in toilet roll. The courier wouldn’t refund her and told her to talk to the office. So we now have a rule, nobody in my household orders COD, all COD arrivals are rejected. I have sold an item on Lazada, they gave me the buyers name and address and told me to take the item to Flash with a label I had to print, if I didn’t and shipped something same size and weight COD, you would probably sign for it and you’ve just completed the sale off the lazada platform, actually this is the most common lazada scam. Never trust COD, it’s a mugs game.

You order COD, the parcel arrives, it’s about the right size and weight, the courier won’t let you open it until you pay, and you pay only to find it’s a toilet roll. Lazada tell you that you completed the sale off their platform and they can’t help you. Actually you did complete the sale off their platform, and Lazada are correct. Can you work out how the scam was perpetrated?

COD is a mugs game, good luck getting your money back from a courier.

I just checked eBay in the UK for sold items BMW 530e and i3, there seems to be a fairly healthy sales markets for them. I checked sold items only, not live or failed listings.

I think there is supercharging and then there is SUPERcharging. My own unsubstantiated opinion, is that very high speed SUPERcharging is probably not so good for the battery, from what I have read and watched on youtube, most supercharging here is done at speeds 50-80Kw which is probably not very different from spirited driving except the electrons are flowing the other way in the battery, I think full power acceleration in the MG EV's is drawing 125 or 175Kw (I forget which). Balancing the battery is an interesting technology, there is passive and active balancing. MG seems to employ passive balancing which only occurs at the end of the charging process, actually I have never seen that before on an EV. On the batteries I built for my solar power system, I fitted active balancers because I didn't want to ever take them over 80% SoC. They are constantly balancing themselves. On the subject of EV sales slowing down and people moving from EV's back to Petrol in the UK. I saw the statistics that led to this conclusion, it was an incorrect deduction based on the statistics. EV sales in the UK last year are up over 40%, Petrol sales are also up and this is where the incorrect conclusion was drawn, you needed to look at Diesel sales which are down massively. The correct conclusion IMHO is that people are replacing their Diesel cars with both Petrol and EV's.

I have a friend awaiting delivery of his MG EP+ that he ordered last October on my recommendation. He has condo's in Rayong & Chiang Rai without the ability to install a home charger. He can supercharge at MG locally in both towns very cheaply and get a free coffee whilst he waits. He will drive between the two locations, fast charging at the abundant fast chargers on the route, his cost savings over using a pickup truck were his main reasons for ordering his EP+. MG have a supercharger network, no further than 150km apart (so they claim). I rarely do long journeys, but I have noticed lots of superchargers, on the main routes at least.

I have changed my view on batteries for ESS, having taken delivery of an MG4 a week or so ago and got into the settings, and reading posts on a forum in the UK. I wouldn't buy an expensive battery or install a generator to cover PEA blackouts. If I was to go down this route again I would simply use the V2L capability of an MG4 and wire it into the house circuit using an ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch), permanently plugging the V2L adaptor into the car and setting the discharge cutoff to something like 40% SoC. Tests carried out in the UK suggest it will sustainably deliver 6.5Kw of power.

Allow me to correct your erroneous quote... Yes, full EVs are SOMETIMES UNsuitable for those who can’t charge at home or undertake frequent long trips EXCEPT IN THAILAND WHERE THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF FAST CHARGERS. Could I respectfully suggest that you try to keep up.

Not true, EV car sales last year are up 40% on the year before in the UK. Globally, up 50%. Source Bloomberg. from Highways agency While the number of petrol cars registered during 2022 as a whole (682,473) significantly outstripped the 267,203 BEV registrations, that figure was higher than the 82,981 diesel cars registered during the year. BEVs ended the year with 16.6% of the market in 2022, up from 11.6% a year earlier.

Maybe, I think they all operate on a 5 volt supply from USB type power, but it depends on what plug/socket combination is on the dashcam, if the plug fits, it should be ok. I bought the cheapest dashcam, 1,800 baht fitted, I don't know how to use mine either, the supplier told me just to unplug it shortly after an accident and the insurance company would do the rest.

What is the chart on the bottom right hand side? Is it something people used to put in their cars last century?

I am sure they will accelerate their delivery schedule. I certainly won’t be ordering at the current price premium over China, I think a lot of customers are going to get burned.

Deposit paid and my order is already in for the first Cyberster to arrive at the Chiang Rai dealership. Quite a beast if they deliver the claimed 0-100 time of 3 seconds.

I think I got luck with my LiFePo4 batteries, I paid 80,000 baht for 28.8KwHrs. My now deceased friend with a Chinese wife sourced them in China and sent them over "Thailand Special Line" duty free

Any ICE with a spark plug can run on Hydrogen, it's just a matter of how you get the mixture right Free piston engines developed from 1930, almost 100 years ago.

oh wow! an internal combustion engine, how very modern!

Can you set the cut-off voltage? that's the key number on a large GT solar system.

In the UK, they are a lot cleverer (surprise, surprise). They install meters with every transformer and periodically check that the meter reading at the transformer matches the sum of the meters of the houses it supplies. Sometimes one meter for every 30 houses. If it doesn't, they start looking at who is using more power than they are paying for.

Does anyone have first hand experience of a hybrid inverter that will export all its surplus energy to the grid? My recommendations are :- Design your roof for solar and not solar for the roof Go Grid-Tied without ESS Install a small solar system from an approved supplier with a feed-in meter, because at some point in the future, we are all going to be on digital meters. Install a larger grid-tied system yourself when the dust has settled Finally, use a grid-tied inverter that you can tweak the settings on * Use an Automatic Voltage Regulator * if you can tweak the settings, it can't be PEA approved, the MUST dedicated Grid-Tied inverter is approved and the settings are behind a password which they cannot give you (PM me for the password). Grid-Tied systems work by matching the frequency of PEA, then increasing their voltage to pump power out to the grid. My experience is the grid doesn't like taking the power, at a pre-set voltage grid-tied inverters go into an error mode, wait and restart. If you can increase that voltage then you can export more power. If your neighbours on the same transformer & same phase use a lot of power, you won't have a problem, they will soak up your power. For that reason, I would go 3 phase too.

My current house is generating an ROI at 20%. Blame that on installing 28.8KwHr's of LFP batteries, and doubling up on inverters because the Hybrid inverters were terrible at exporting.