Speedhump

On 3/18/2021 at 8:38 AM, colinneil said:

Well i am safe, i will never catch any of the above nasties.????

Since the accident? ????

Average price? This no doubt includes imported western beers which will push the average price up hugely, as most of them are obviously more expensive than local. Also there are many foreign labels to include and cost out, again pushing up the average.

What a non-survey. Thailand is great and still cheap for those of us that don't want to eat and drink in BKK's Soi 13 or whatever every day of the week. ????

Look, elephants' sense of smell is ten times better than that of dogs, and they're more intelligent. The elephant in the room.... ????

1 hour ago, Stoker58 said:

98.4% accuracy, eh? The Thais are a truly comical people. <deleted> detecting dogs would be even more useful.

Someone else here has said that COVID detecting dogs in Finland have been 95 pct effective. 

So, strange but true. 

19 hours ago, MadMac said:

Way to go! That's way better than any PCR test result.

Can I only say 'if true'. Would be great though. 

On 3/13/2021 at 5:20 PM, Blue Muton said:

He can't. What she really wants is a hansum man.

Who is OMG too big... ????

Surely that passport should be required of the VISITORS? 

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

"On the day of renewal, put 100bat on my bank account, photocopied the passbook. Note that also had letter from the bank as per the requirements. Again, the bank account had 800K for 3 years, no movement at all, except for the 100bat deposit on renewal day."

 

The words above are from the OP.

No mention of 'income method' 

The thread is about extension based on retirement using 'money in bank method' 

Especially not difficult to do if your not using income method.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My point which you did not follow is that there should be no requirement for a full 12 month statement at all, for any method. 

Any bank should give you a 12 month statement. Krungsri give it free, Kasikorn charge around 400 baht, others I don't know. 

For past two years I have had to show monthly foreign receipts (65k method) and also a 12 months bank statement. It's not difficult to do. 

22 hours ago, jvs said:

You finally grew up.

Not everyone is born 30 years old (like I was). At least my attitudes haven't changed much though, I'm as tolerant of difference as I ever was, but also as intolerant of intolerance. I want to keep both my love and my anger at full blast until I die. 

Do not go gentle....

(64 and still as full of sh.. as ever) 

I simply despair at the utterly pathetic neediness of absurd calculations like this. 

But of course it gives media outlets like you wonderful clickbait (it's utterly unbelievable, yet given headline prominence by a supposedly trustworthy webnews outlet: "we didn't say it, we're only reporting it (oh, in our daily major headlines)" 

Can't you just make your headline stories stuff we need to see, and not jokes?

Why give such a totally absurd tale prominence in your 'headline stories'? Her, I guess you're desperate too.... 

On 2/22/2021 at 10:03 PM, gamb00ler said:

If you have a smartphone, install the KBank app. From within that app you can produce a statement which will have your address and which will be emailed to whatever address you enter.

1) Open the app.
2) Tap on 'Banking' option shown at the bottom of the screen
3) Tap on 'Statement' icon in the bottom row (of 2 rows).
4) enter the desired E-mail address
5) choose the Months you want covered by the statement
6) Tap 'Submit Request'

The requested statement will be e-mailed to you. The PDF file is password protected but KBank will tell you what the password is.

Happy tapping!

Some people don't want to give their financial position to random third parties. 

If you want your address written in English and not Thai, very good luck you. 

I have no bank/utility/government docs sent to me that show my address in English. 

I go to a translation service, get the doc translated and stamped as a true translation. 

27 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

 

 

Haha. Lacking in taste. Quite apropos as it also applies to people complaining about 'all Thai food'. 

23 hours ago, scoupeo said:

 

 

Thai food has never been tasty without the poison sauces they put inside.

Try to cook without and you will know how ridiculous is this food.

But do not ask foreigners who perfectly know nothing as on most topics.

 

Both of you clearly don't know your taste buds start to fail as you age. Just dump a load of salt on and stop moaning. Foreigners who know nothing. Right.... 

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

Only the stupid would believe they can establish any comparison without a bench mark.

Fascino charges 2 baht a tablet and the hospital charges 1 baht a tablet, but according to you the hospital is overcharging foreigners with a dual pricing policy.

You are completely wrong about everything. You seem to believe that I have said that there is dual pricing in hospitals. You really need to check this thread and correct your ignorance. 

4 hours ago, sandyf said:

What part of this sentence did you find difficult.

" If however as people claim the hospital charges double for falang then the real price would be 35 baht."

 

Obviously you  have convinced yourself that every hospital is charging double for foreigners, irrespective of the facts.

This is utter stupidity. I claimed nothing. Show me where I did? I asked you to confirm you had proof over dual pricing. And you started talking about Fascino. And I told you to STAY ON TOPIC. 

Tnxbye ????

Already in place for first D/L application. Go to a doctor in the high street, he measures your height, asks your weight and asks if your OK. 100 baht. 

16 hours ago, sandyf said:

Looks like you missed the point, I never suggested Fascino were dual pricing.

If Fascino were charging 100 baht and the hospital prices are about 70% of Fascino, the hospital price would be 70 baht. If however as people claim the hospital charges double for falang then the real price would be 35 baht.

So the question was, are Fascino ripping people off, meaning everyone, or not?

This thread is about dual pricing. Keep on topic. 

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

You are quite right, nobody showed me their invoices.

When I started getting my hypertension tablets at the hospital the price was about two thirds that of Fascino with discount card. If the hospital is charging double, why no complaints about Fascino, or any other pharmacy?

Of course you  are perfectly free to  believe what you want.

As far as I have ever witnessed, Fascino run everything past their IR scanner at the till and the prices show on the till's screen. so I don't understand how that could give different prices for farang and Thai. But I'm not a retail expert. 

2 hours ago, sandyf said:

With the eye surgery, the hospital was recommended by a family friend and several family friends have undergone the same treatment. I was offered a mono lens varying price from 6000 to 13,000 and chose the top price. One family friend had his operation at the same time as me and I noticed his lens was in a different box. When we saw him at the checkup turned out that he had it done under the social and nobody had told him he had the option of paying the difference and ended up with the cheapest lens, bit annoyed to say the least.

The other 2 hospitals I use are local and used by family and friends, many have to pay and claim back and never slow to talk about it. Just a couple of weeks ago, friend of my wife was complaining about around 180K baht for a shoulder injury from coming off her bike.

Thanks. You still didn't say precisely that you saw exactly the same price being offered to farang and Thai for exactly the same product/service, but I'm not going to labour the point 

Anyone know how much COVID cover is through a Thai immigration approved insurer? I really can not believe that it's correct that you need to spend 25k to get COVID cover of 100k. but that's what I thought I read in a thread on this forum recently. 

23 hours ago, sandyf said:

I have to say I was a bit surprised at what was posted as I have never experienced any as you say "made up on the hoof". I have had elective procedures at 3 different government hospitals and every one had to be paid for in advance. The most recent was cataract surgery, second eye a year ago Dec. The invoice for each op was 3 full A4 pages, every last item listed and just the same price as Thais, couldn't be any more transparent.

Could I ask how you know the price was the same as that which Thais would have paid?