Just Weird

On 10/2/2019 at 7:16 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

It would be good if there would be some kind of organization in Thailand to enforce the laws.

I heard they do this with success in other countries all over the world. 

There's a law concerning minimum speed limits or not driving fast on highways in Thailand that could be enforced?

49 minutes ago, alan grice said:

Stupid little things pop up when U Rent Tesla. Like the chargers are not covered like popping in for Petrol . You meet friends for Dinner dressed nicely and it pisses down with Rain.The Vacant chargers allways the furthest away from the Entrance.

Ah, that's clarified it, you're blaming Tesla for the weather.

20 hours ago, transam said:

20 hours ago, ballpoint said:

The legend...

 

One for town:

 

I wouldn't put wide boots on one of those, if you saw the front spindles you would see why.....????....Nice to see though..

...I wouldn't have put on those bumpers, headlight trims, the grille, hubcaps, flares or mis-matching door handles on it either!

Silom branch is still open, plenty of customers today. 

It's unbelievable that someone starts a thread that requires every poster who answers it to have to look up the "answer" on the internet!  Something that the OP couldn't do?

15 hours ago, JamJar said:

 

No. I did not. 

I answered the question of Transferring Money to Someone within Thailand Who Does Not Have a Bank Account

Cardless cash withdrawals is exactly what is being described here. Whether via ATM or branch, it is exactly the same.

Yes, you did miss the point. 

This was the question, about a specific service, that the OP asked...

"I got talking to the manager.  He said that I could do a transfer to any branch of Bangkok Bank for a fee of B 30, and that the recipient could claim the money, even if he does not have a Bangkok Bank account... 

Is this type of transfer really possible...?"

He did not ask for alternative methods of sending money!

2 hours ago, kellersphuket said:

I believe it was from chicken curry at a hotel restaurant in bkk.

What sort of "chicken curry" was it?

2 hours ago, kellersphuket said:

What causes this?

Is it a lack of basic hygiene or is it something else?

Try washing your hands more often.

Perhaps you have an extraordinarily weak constitution?

Perhaps fate has got it in for you as you seem to have more problems than anyone else here.

1 hour ago, mauGR1 said:

Being a vegetarian, i never get sick with food, but i hear many stories similar to yours, so you're not alone.

Lack of basic hygiene could be one of the reasons, but mostly i put it down to sheer carelessness, and a total ignorance about the proper use of fridges and freezers.

Hygiene doesn't come into the preparation of vegetarian food?  That's a novel idea.

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

On 7/30/2019 at 11:57 AM, Just Weird said:

Happens a dozen times a day in LOS".

No, it doesn't.

 

Yes it does... They very rarely make the national headlines though. 

There's always something being talked about at the local gossip shacks, generally not good things !!

The incident described in the OP does not happen "a dozen times a day in LOS" as quoted!

"Yes it does... They very rarely make the national headlines though". 

How would you know that if, as you say, they're not reported?  Do you have a hotline to a source of unreported murders in Thailand that the media doesn't?

On 9/30/2019 at 12:46 PM, allane said:

I got talking to the manager.  He said that I could do a transfer to any branch of Bangkok Bank for a fee of B 30, and that the recipient could claim the money, even if he does not have a Bangkok Bank account.  It sounded too good to be true.

It wasn't too good to be true.

On 9/30/2019 at 12:46 PM, allane said:

Is this type of transfer really possible, in this incredibly bureaucratic country, where reams of paperwork are normally required because nobody trusts anybody ?

Yes, it is, despite your assertion that "reams of paperwork would be required and that no one trusts anyone else in this country". What?

On 9/30/2019 at 12:46 PM, allane said:

I am sure that Bangkok Bank would be happy to take my money. But I have my doubts if the intended recipient ( a foreigner to boot) can simply walk in and claim the money. 

You're suggesting that the recommendation made by a branch manager of the country's biggest bank is fraudulent?  Why would you do that?

All your question have now been answered, unfortunately not quite the way that you wanted them answered, in the affirmative!  Sorry!

1 hour ago, Max69xl said:

Thailand hasn't got a pretty advanced banking system compared to most developed countries. Where do you come from,Bulgaria? The things you can do now online at a Thai bank, I could do 20 years ago at home. 

Could you name one normal banking procedure that mainstream Thai banks cannot do today that any retail bank in Europe, UK or US can do?

By the way, Bulgarian banks can do the same things also.

13 hours ago, JamJar said:

Wow...talk about most of the posts missing the point.

Not even one of them has heard of Cardless cash withdrawal...

 

You can read about similar services here; https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/save/heres-how-you-can-withdraw-cash-without-using-credit-or-debit-card-at-these-3-banks-atms/articleshow/68811216.cms

You're the one who's missed the point!

12 hours ago, Max69xl said:

You can't send money to a person without an account at Bangkok Bank. Maybe the manager was talking about Western Union or an equivalent company through Bangkok Bank. 

Stop it, Max69xl, stop it, you are talking nonsense.

As the manager in question stated in the OP, the transaction that he manager recommended to the OP is available, it's a BBL service, it's called an "online fund/money transfer" and can be done branch to branch to a recipient with no bank account.

As the manager in question stated, the charge (up to B10,000) is B30.

As the manager in question also stated, the recipient needs only a passport and the reference number given to the sender and is required to provide his name, address and phone number.

How do I know this?  I rang Bangkok Bank to ask them and all the above information, i.e. the information that the doubting OP was given face to face in the first place, was confirmed as correct.

8 hours ago, Max69xl said:

I don't think there's such a service in any bank in Thailand, the recipient must have a bank account, unless we are talking about WU.

But you can always Google it. 

 

"I don't think there's such a service in any bank in Thailand".

What do you base that thought on?

From the OP...

"I got talking to the manager.  He said that I could do a transfer to any branch of Bangkok Bank for a fee of B 30, and that the recipient could claim the money, even if he does not have a Bangkok Bank account".

Why would the manager say that to a customer who specifically wanted to do that if that service wasn't available? 

6 hours ago, allane said:

As I said in my OP, I decided to finish yesterday's transfer by Western Union. I have looked at the English version of Bangkok Bank's website, and seen nothing there to indicate that someone who does not have an account there can receive a bank to bank cash transfer.

So, just because it's not on a website, you choose to disregard what the manager actually told you, face to face, about how you could make the transfer? 

The website doesn't say, for example, that cheques can be cashed at branches or that withdrawals can be made but both those can be done, so your obtuse acceptance that the transfer service offered to you can't be done doesn't seem logical. 

Wouldn't calling their call centre (1333) sort it out? Not everything gets put on to a website, obviously.

1 hour ago, allane said:

I'm the OP. All of the replies have told me nothing that I didn't already know.

So, did you manage to get the money to your friend?  How did you end up doing the transaction and was it as difficult as you seemed to think it would be with all the language difficulties and the doubtful information you suspected that you were being provided with?

22 hours ago, 4675636b596f75 said:

A better question, would be can that also be done with another currency?

Why?  He wanted baht.

25 minutes ago, allane said:

I'm the OP. All of the replies have told me nothing that I didn't already know. I did think of the Post Office, but concluded that even that might be difficult for a foreign recipient with very limited Thai. And I still think that walking into a bank, showing his passport, and saying "Please give me my money" wouldn't have worked either.

To repeat: I would appreciate the exact name, in Thai, of any service which might be available inside Bangkok Bank, or any of the other Thai banks, where someone with no account at that bank can walk in and receive funds which have been previously sent to him. (The equivalent of Poste Restante (General Delivery) at the Post Office.)

If you doubt the recommendation given to you by a Bangkok Bank manager, face to face, so much, why not call the English-speaking BBL call centre (1333) and ask them if the manager was making it all up (for some unfathomable reason)?  That way all your valuable time that was wasted by posters "telling you nothing that you didn't know already" [sic] could have been avoided.

"And I still think that walking into a bank, showing his passport, and saying "Please give me my money" wouldn't have worked either".

It didn't it occur to you that the BBL branch where you deposit the money for transfer may give you a receipt/reference number that you send to the recipient so he wouldn't have been just "showing his passport, and saying "Please give me my money"?  You were happy with the WU system that works in exactly the same way, weren't you, why doubt the Bank's own process?

By the way, of all the institutions in Thailand probably the two that would have the least problem for a Non-Thai speaker would be BBL and Thailand Post.

"The equivalent of Poste Restante (General Delivery) at the Post Office".

The fund transfer service that you're looking for is not the equivalent of Poste Restante which is just a mail-holding service.

2 hours ago, SteveK said:

Because this is Thailand.

Good spot, there, but how does your sardonic perception of Thailand have anything to do with your doubting a service that the biggest bank in the country offered the OP face to face?  Do you doubt every other BBL service exists also just because it's in Thailand?

47 minutes ago, sjbrownderby said:

In order to actually get a refund you must first pay............unless you know something you would like to share with the rest of us. 

Geez...

20 minutes ago, Farangwithaplan said:

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

I didn't say that would be "poor advice", neither did you explain how the OP would be able to go about doing that!

OP, go to a Bank and talk to someone at a counter. Say "Hi, I would like to discuss refinancing existing loans"

 

Or, in reality, go to a bank, talk to someone at the counter and say,

"Hi, I would like to discuss refinancing existing loans for a girlfriend whose debts I am not party to"

See how far you get with that which is what you would actually have to say.

40 minutes ago, sjbrownderby said:

Not at all irrelevant. Paying for goods and receiving refunds on line should be easy. 

My comment is about getting a refund, that's all, not about whether paying for goods online should be easy!

If you get a refund sent to your bank account how does the bank's location affect your receiving the refund?  It doesn't, obviously, that's why the location is irrelevant!

1 hour ago, 4675636b596f75 said:

All speculation.  They could be coming here for many reasons. 

Yes, I know that, including coming here to work!