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And .... 'Thanks for getting back to us. I understand that your payments use to go faster, however, the process has changed due to Direct Debits running on the three-day systematic cycle and so take at least three days to clear. The 4th working day is when we should receive the money and transfer it to the recipient. When our system communicates with your bank, it checks to make sure the balance covers the total amount of Direct Debit transfers we’ve requested in the last 4 business days.' 😀

I just had this happen - I stopped the transaction. Tried to set it up again today and same thing. Sent a couple emails asking about this and yep same thing, with them saying 2 to 4 days and the last transaction would take 6 days, 5 now. Like what????? First time in 2 years or more.

I have just been told by e mail from Wise, transfers will take 2 to 4 days. As for the one I tried to send yeaterday.. 6 days!! This is only a 1000 US ACH transfer, which has been going through in seconds or a couple hours at most for the last two years. Has anyone else had this ... Again the above information was in response to an e mail I sent regarding the 6 day transfer date (!) Could not bloody believe it. Thanks

Wall St dropped 600 pts on Friday. There was a sell off the day before that & jittery for the entire week just ended. That certainly affected $ to B rate.

Only if you are to the right of Hitler.

143 million baht per month makes one wonder who the main users of the on arrival duty free were. Sounds like Kone Thai might be the real target of this, not international tourists most of whom never knew you could buy duty free on arrival. 'it's a money loser' ... 'overpriced' ... yada yada yada. Popular brands were no bargain; Johnnie Walker, Glenlivet, JackDaniels etc. However if you had something you like, less than popular, great deal. Say Meyers Rum for 500 B a liter at duty free arrival. Same price for over 15 years. Show them your onward flight ticket, even from Don Muang, they would wrap it, seal it, and you could carry it on domestic flight to your final destination.

Great way to extort money from unaware tourists. Thailand & SEA has a winner here.

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Jenga & Connect Four too immature? Why not, Hide The Nazi?!

My wife will upchuck if she eats beef. An involuntary response. I know a number of Thais who react to beef that way. Sounds like a heads up marketing move. They can always bring in beef if & when the demand is there, making sure it is clearly labeled.

Miguels changed the portions, or the cook, or the recipes for a couple dishes during wuhan lockdown. Not sure exactly what happend but after a decade plus of going there, I do not, anymore. I'll give Taco Bell a shake. Work it in with my Peera Pharmacy trip.

Wow, One amazing post. That said it is Saturday morning and if you want to really do any shopping at Airport today or Sunday best get their before 1100 (it opens at 10 on weekends) as it will be heaving all weekend long. It will also create a bleeding traffic jam on Mahidol RD halfway back to the river before lunch hour. I hate that. As mentioned, CM can't support five malls, still the three that are left seem to be here to stay, even with online shopping taking a bite. Many were more worried about Maya Mall which seemed to have a tough time coming back from wuhan. That said more Nimmaen people are using it, and more chinese tourists BTW, so it looks like it is doing all right. Also a new shop selling Keens (!) out there. As for strange tales of expats leering at women in Swensons airport. Really?! It sounds cool, in a demented kind a way, but really, a group of disheveled old geezers rubbing their privates while looking through the glass at Swenson waitresses?! Where do you come up with this excrement anyway?

"What happens in Finland" ???? They get scammed by Thais in Thailand. if they can get to Finland, good chance they can make money. Why they believe Thais selling them visas, is a good question and one the news media seems to hide. Again wonder why these scamming Thais get protected by the media and government. It could be, their position in Thai society protects them even though they do evil scamming.

They are sold in thailand, by thai people, to thai people. You almost do not get that fact in the news article above. The Thai people who do these scams seem to have protection. I wonder why that is?!

That is because it is a Thai Buddhist tradition (ปล่อยนก) to release them and make merit. Same with fish & whatnot. See it all over Thailand. ---------------------------------------- The bird junk at Thaipai gate has nothing to do with making merit. Chinese tourists want pictures of pigeons swirling around, flying, with them in it, at Thapae square. There was a scene in that movie (L. in CM) like this. Now it is a bleeding tourist activity - feed the birds and get pictures of them with you in it. It is also why they have gotten away with it for so long, 'Chinese tourists think it a part of their CM tourist trip'. So the plod let them. Finally it is getting to be such a pain in the hind in, they are actually, reluctantly, doing something about it. BTW, no mention is made of the specific tourist group funding & fueling this activity, because, well, they are SPECIAL.

Why not a Bagel hub?

On my new feed this morming: Thailand changes Olympic uniform. After a couple days defending it, they caved fast.

No clue what you are yabbering about. If you are trying to talk about a person, then say who it is and provide specific details. This is all a bunch vague mush.

🥱 No such thing. A MAGA invention, and by extension a Russ/china fantasy spiel. Neocons were big with Bush & WMD fiasco. Now just another discredited right wing republican fringe group, no one wants to admit being part of after their remaking the Middle East by taking out Saddam went mammaries up.

Sounds like what I have right now. Not Wuhan, tested. A number of people have it in my condo.

Thai mail has NOT been good for some time, and can be a real problem. BTW I blamed this on my own home country (US) mail service until people from other countries, complained of the same problem. A bummer as the Thai post used to be really good.

I doubt that, doubt that there has been any deaths. No one in CM has heard of any 'rumours' of this. Vang Vieng was doing tubing for years, no, a decade plus, with no controls whatsoever. This is both recent & infrequent stuff for Pai. Of course organized by Thai companies and locals to make money. Booze them up, drug them up & toss em in a river. Frankly it seems pretty orderly compared to the old VV tube experience. However now it is also a chance to be outraged. Righteous outrage and Thailand. Who knew righteous outrage was such a critical feature of Thai Culture?!

When you can't even make cheap elephant pants to sell inside of Thailand. You got problems.

Yep, they did. The Downtown Inn was owned by a former CM mayor. As usual per Thailand, they spend far more time confusing the issue, obscuring the facts, than reveal any thing of substance. It has been said, the real cause was the same as the Phi Phi islands deaths of the American and Norwegian women, followed by the deaths of the Quebec sisters. These two incidents, happend at roughly the same time period as the CM hotel incidents. As for many things in Thailand, no real answers, It's just another of life's little mysteries.