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5 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

2 baht higher even after processing fee's ?

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

On 1/19/2024 at 10:13 AM, FritsSikkink said:

Pay cash

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. 

4 hours ago, impulse said:

Has anyone in Thai officialdom addressed how they'll handle the drop in road fuel taxes as more drivers go electric? 

 

Someone's gotta pay for road maintenance.

 

“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.

12 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Sling shots are better than euthanizing them or paint ball guns.....

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

18 hours ago, jimn said:

As far as I know Shopee does not accept foreign credit cards whereas Lazada does.

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

3 hours ago, JayClay said:

I don't understand the Shopee link... Do they share the same parent company?

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 ...

1 hour ago, Celsius said:

 

Well who gives a flying ef

 

I hold no allegiance to any country. I'll be wherever I feel like it at any moment.

 

Wow.  Impressive.  

Decades of high immigration and

7 hours ago, Celsius said:

My wife got lost and she waved the police. Very pro and very nice to her. They were driving her around until she found the place. 

Anything but do real police work.  

7 hours ago, Celsius said:

My wife had a medical emergency. We called an ambulance (she still did not qualify for free healthcare) and they helped her and were very professional.

Canadian taxpayers pay for that "free" healthcare.

18 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I think he's referring to the duplicitous treatment of foreigners with state sanctioned dual pricing.

 

That's not what "duplicitous" means.

Thanks for all your sermonizing though.  We're all better people because of you.

"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 ...)

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?

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Good R&R break as was non-stop looping around the are prior.

Looking for an EV charger?  

1 hour ago, Cereal said:

It is not going to change. A few years back there was a survey of Thai drivers which was quite comprehensive.

 

In short, a full third of the respondents said there was literally nothing they could do to prevent an accident. Nothing. It is all preordained. 

Link?

On 3/1/2024 at 4:37 AM, Social Media said:

Sunak said ... Britain stands on the brink of descending into "mob rule."

At this point it may be that Britain is ascending into mob rule.

Or, minimally, that a new mob is challenging the current mob.

Just now, stevenl said:

Problem quoting?

 Yes.  I'm trying to fix it now ...

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How was the claimed 600 % increase calculated?

Thailand rushing in all the wrong directions.