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4 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

YOU can get any type of visa stamp on your passport,  

if you only hand over an envelope  with the right amount.

but  there is no assurance that it will be a real visa stamp.

which means, you can walk around for years proud and happy with the FAKE  visa stamp

in your passport, 

but one day, when you will want to leave the country, 

you might discover, with the help of an airport immigration officer,

that it was a FAKE stamp.

and than, guess who will have to sit in jail and pay hefty fines?

You guessed right - YOU !!!

Thanks, going to move that up to #678 on my list of things to stress over. Besides the fact it would be picked up the first time you reported 90 days, change of address etc. It is more likely a cop puts a kilo of blow under the seat of your M/C while you are getting pissed in the liquor bar. surprise,surprise! 

On ‎6‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 3:03 PM, sanemax said:

Anyone know if its possible to get a retirement visa in CM , by means of paying a fee, rather than having money in the bank and any other bits of paper ?

   Envelope and no questions asked .

Of course not

13 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

few years ago the thai baht was 26, 27, or 28?

this must be many many years ago, cause no chart show those prices.

thai baht now is at ALL TIME HIGH, and by all times i mean the highest point in

the past 15 years.

 

from here thai baht can only get worse, cause that is the trend in many other developing economies, like

brazil , south africa and argentina.

Wrong again, Baht has ranged from around 28 1/2 to 36 1/2 over the past ten years.

Between 2010-2013 in the high 20s

33 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Well educate yourself more about what actually goes on, the Thais e.g. Many foreigners in schools don't have WP's.

Many educated people know that many laws are an ass.

What long term non-imm 1 year extension people living here should be able to do is maintain there private property.

Never known anyone doing so having any bother.

Do you understand what commercial property is?

19 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

You should relax or as they say here jai yen yen before you blow a gasket.

Maybe you need to google that. ?

Don't need to. That same attitude you have is why people here disregard the rule of law pretty much across the board. I can run this red light, nobody will catch me. Bad enough it is instilled in Thai mentality since birth but as a guest in the country it seems that you and others have adapted the same mentality. I was taught if you live in my house, play by my rules. It's the way educated people should behave.

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

No-way, the know it all's here who think will  and what happens, are getting to you, don't let em, most of what they research and think in reality doesn't happen in Thailand.

Reading laws etc etc doesn't reflex the outcome unless it gets proven in court and someone would have to be in the frame more than once committing this misdemeanor and abusing the work law system as I've seen. 

Great then, why don't you go help the OP paint his business I we can find out that will "reflex" on your ability to remain in LOS.

3 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

I think the grey area is he wants to paint a commercial rented building which I take he lives in.

I think with Thailand's rules and laws there's many grey areas and also a line drawn between maintenance and working especially on your own home. 

The fact he lives in it is irrelevant. I assume since it is a commercial building it is some sort of business. If he wants to do anything involved with that business he needs a work permit. Depending on the type of business he may not be able to have the license in his name. There will be no grey area should a labor official finds out he is working on that building. I don't know why it is so difficult to understand. He would be taking away a job where a Thai could be employed.

11 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

3rd one to say that I think, again where does it state that.

Google it, I got it from three different attorneys, an IO official  plus the guy I bought the business from. You can't even be director of a limited company because that entails signing docs which is considered work. If labor catches him he is toast, he is working for a business without a WP, not even remotely a grey area and not worth the risk. There are several older forums which detail it in great length here on TV.

All these folks saying it is OK unless you get caught or someone drops a dime. Same can be said about many crimes committed.

On ‎6‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 10:57 PM, Khun Jean said:

Member since 2009 and still don't know about Labor law because that is where it is stated?

You do know that in Thailand it is not the only survival of the fittest but also survival of the informed.

So get informed and read the posts in this thread.

 

Not so sure reading these posts are most likely the best way to get misinformed

On ‎6‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 6:32 PM, Kwasaki said:

Yeah your OK if no-one complains I paint and maintain our home if you rent it just check with your landlord.

Wrong, you cant lift a finger without a WP.

14 hours ago, sanemax said:

Not really  , because I know as much now as I did before you added your input

Neither one of you are informed, homeboy is making this up. He has moved on to other forums making more shit up. All dribble.

On ‎6‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 3:53 PM, Tanoshi said:

Some of us have morals and principals. We don't like to condone or encourage corruption.

Don't condemn the man for wanting to do it by the book. 

OK, now go to the OPs new post about how he gave the hospital a false name and then wondered how they had a copy of his PP. Bull shit on that !

18 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

i did not give my real name cause i was sure indeed that i will have to show my passport later,

but they never asked for my passport cause...i paid cash !!

got the point ? 

but i am not the problem here.

the problem here is - how did they get my passport photo copy???

If I ran the hospital and you gave me a bogus name to get served you are absolutely the problem. It's called fraud to gain services.

18 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

 

i did not want to give my real name just in case, cause i just came for a check and did not know it will procceed to an operation.

. anyway i did not think about it much, just gave a funny name when they first asked me for my name. than it proceed to that minor operation, and they never asked for any idea or date of birth, nothing. maybe they did not care cause i paid cash, and did not heve health insurance. 

anyway, never mind me. i am not so interesting. 

point is, they got my passport photo copy - and i never gave them my passport, nor any other detail besides that fake name !!! amazing !!

On another forum about getting a retirement visa you went on and on about doing things the "right way" but it is OK to defraud a hospital by using a fake name just in case? What's up with that. In case of what exactly ? That's beyond strange.

Moderator, please get the OP to tap-out, he's taken too many shots to the head.

Just now, Vacuum said:

What information?

 

What ever he had saved on the phone. While we are talking about things that never happen they my have inserted a micro GPS device in that bump on his forehead during surgery, lol.

27 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Big mistake. You should have registered it using a random Thai person...

Big mistake man, now they have every bit of information on that phone. Happens all the time

2 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

i did not just walked into a hospital and asked to have an operation. 

i was checked there and they said i have to for an operation.

than i went to three other hospitals to get other opinions.

in all three hospitals - the biggest in thailand - i got to see the doctor without showing 

any passport.

i am sure about it just because i did not carry my passport on me !!

so...it is possible to see a doctor in a thai hospital (not all, i know of one who insist on seeing passport)

without showing your passport.

Common sense dude, they need verifiable ID to make sure you pay, for liability. You cant just walk in and say you're Donald J. Trump and they start carving you up. Get over, it's ridiculous. 

On ‎6‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 3:53 PM, Tanoshi said:

Some of us have morals and principals. We don't like to condone or encourage corruption.

Don't condemn the man for wanting to do it by the book. 

You are a guest in a foreign country. Thailand has a long history of independence and hasn’t been tainted with a lot of western influence. Unlike Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. Philippines and India (just to list the countries around Thailand), there has never been western colonisation of the Kingdom. And most Thais will be delighted to remind you of this proud fact. The down-side is that your perception of western efficiencies and customs are going to be challenged whenever you want to do just about anything. And there will be times when you will be asked, or invited, to put your hand in your pocket to get something happening – it could be a building project, a visa, getting your accounting done or getting a signature on a contract. If you are running a business in Thailand you’ll be invited more often than if you’re just living the single life here. Be shocked, be angry, be determined to point out your issues with corruption – it’s not going to change a system that has been in place for generations and unlikely to change much during your time in the Kingdom.

21 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

money is not the problem here. i dont have a problem paying 15K bht to an agent, if i will really get the visa. problem is that you can't trust those agents. some people in thailand are desperate and will do anything to get some cash, even will use fake immigration stamps. happaned to a friend of mine in another country. he had to sit in jail !!!  

and he had no idea that the extention stamp is fake until he left the country and got arrested at the airport.

Ok, here is what you do. Go to the IO wherever you're at and ask if there is someone who works there can help you expedite your application. Pretty sure there are officers in every office that would help you for a fee. If they are the ones walking it thru you most likely will suffer minimal resistance ie 6 month lease, landlord pic etc.

If your expeditor is an officer who works there I don't think you will be getting a bogus stamp.

10 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

no, he means that you get in total 15 months (3 months non imm O + one year extention) for a payment of total 600 USD (2000 bht for the 3 month  O visa + 12 months year extention + 15,000 bht to his expeditor, whom he loves so much).

Look here I'm not the one on here two weeks, 100 comments and no closer to getting a simple extension than when I started. A "fixer" who might as well bullshit me as it happans so many times. If you get bullshitted so often maybe you need to go about things a different way. No wander you are so bitter.

22 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

Sort of answer I expected.

Fictitious figures thrown around and you don't know what stamp you've got in your passport, because you used an agent, and he told you 'retirement Visa'.

You just want to argue. I know <deleted> I have, a twelve month multi-entry extension. You like to play your word games, so be it. I know exactly what I paid to have the lady expedite my extensions. Go get a life