Lee65

Earth to KhunLA ...

Yet the 10k baht handout explicitly prohibits its use to pay off debt. Some things are sacred.

Good thread. Got a few more 'Ignore Users' out of it.

The point - for those too thick to understand - was that Grab is evidently adding a 'fee' for Cash payment higher than the 'fee' for foreign credit cards.

Indeed. 'Annoy customer' seems to be a staple of Thai business. Perhaps their thinking: "If the customer is happy it means we could have extracted a few more baht out of them."

Yes. The total. Or the 'grand total' if you prefer.

Just selected 'Cash' as a payment method on a Grab order and the total was 2 baht higher than that for my foreign credit card ... Getting jerked around by Grab (Lazada, Shopee, etc. etc.) has made using their services annoying. But these companies don't seem to care: in Asia there's always another 10 million uneducated, non-discerning, serfs potential customers happily lining up to be manipulated.

See 'em almost every time I visit my local PTT/7-11 - sitting on the concrete curb stops next to their pride and joy. And often with a scowling woman in tow. I guess gaily "drinking coffee" at the service station for 50-minute stretches grew old.

“Flat-fee charges on EVs have become commonplace in recent years, with one other province and more than 40 U.S. states implementing or having announced this type of charge, including California,” Savannah Johannsen, press secretary for the Alberta Office of Treasury Board and Finance told Electric Autonomy via email. https://electricautonomy.ca/2024/03/07/alberta-evs-registration-tax/ Electric car owners in Alberta will be forced to pay an annual $200 electric vehicle tax starting as early as January 2025. In Alberta’s 2024 budget unveiled Thursday, the province says the new tax will be applied when electric car owners register their vehicle and will be in addition to the current registration fee. The province says electric vehicles tend to be heavier and cause more destruction on highways and roads, while owners don’t pay a provincial fuel tax. The tax will not apply to hybrid vehicles, the budget says. https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-budget-electric-vehicle-tax

Sad to see EV owners waiting around at charging stations realizing their virtue signaling and foolish pride will not compensate for the inconvenience and time wasted. And becoming aware of how silly they look. As has been admitted in these forums, unless one has home charging - preferably solar - EVs make no sense. And even then they're only for the early adopter crowd who are willing to risk writing off the value of their vehicle - or a subsequent unpredictable battery explosion - from even a minor event (collision, scrape the bottom of the car, run over a heavy object on the road) that calls into question the integrity of the battery.

Shooting them with paint ball guns! Hadn't thought of that!

Can always import Africans. No sign of population decline over there.

In fact I was told that by a Shopee CSR but one of my foreign credit cards works fine.

Sorry, the connection wasn't clear - even to me. I was just comparing the same food order at Grab and Shopee and blurted out this revelation on AN ...

3% Is this new? Nothing yet at Shopee ...

Wow. Impressive.

Decades of high immigration and Anything but do real police work. Canadian taxpayers pay for that "free" healthcare.

That's not what "duplicitous" means. Thanks for all your sermonizing though. We're all better people because of you.

As OP described it, they clearly need the money ...

Incidentally, I once asked a Thai who had spent decades in the hotel business working for a large Thai hotel company why Thai hoteliers allowed rooms and properties to go unfilled rather than lowering the price. His answer was essentially "That's thinking out of the box." Make of that what you will ...

"Why do Thai people prefer to hold onto empty properties - thus getting no income - rather than lowering the price?" This well-known aspect of Thai thinking remains a mystery. The only way to get some clarification may be to speak with a Thai who has plenty of experience living in the West and good foreign language skills. (I tried posing the question to ChatGPT but the evil rat-bastard thing isn't working at the moment ...)

Mr. Straumann, a 60-year-old Swiss man, was taken to the Muang Trang Police Station, and Mrs. Ree, 58, was transferred to the hospital. ... For those readers too lazy to read the linked article. This Swiss guy must be scum.

IF BritManToo had scratched the guy's car, flipped him the bird, told him his mother wore army boots, was flying a British flag on his motorbike, and mooned him ... would that justify "attempted murder" or even vehicular assault? Well, there's the mooning ... But the others?

Looking for an EV charger?

Link?