WaveHunter

The problem is that even the brick and mortar stores are increasingly guilty of doing it (possibly unknowingly) by buying from a dishonest online wholesalers who sell on the Lazada or AliExpress platforms.

It is insane! Now, anytime I buy from a merchant on Lazada, I start off assuming I will be scammed and start a "paper trail" right off the bat by sending them a chat message before I purchase, asking them if the item is genuine, and telling them I will recognize a counterfeit if I receive one and raise hell if that happens (which I absolutely do now). If I receive a reply, I will buy it, but it's amazing how many of those requests go unanswered LOL! The one good thing I commend Lazada on is that if you do file a complaint about something being counterfeit, they act very quickly, usually telling you to just discard the item and refunding you the full amount quickly with an apology, no hassles or delays at all.

I would love to find an online store that sells GENUINE Gillette replacement cartridges for my Mach3+ razor but I have been scammed twice on Lazada! Even brick and mortar stores are selling counterfeit goods now! If you know of a trusted online store, please let me know. The two orders were so bad It was like shaving with a razor that had already been used 20 times! In fact, I wonder if it's a new scam...cleaning up used cartridges and reselling them as new LOL! I just found out that it a MAJOR scam being reported for many online selling platforms such as Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, and yes...Lazada! Considering the extraordinarily high price of genuine cartridges, it's created a perfect opportunity for counterfeiters. REPORTS: https://thecounterfeitreport.com/product/114/Mach-3-Razor-Blades.html https://thecounterfeitreport.com/product/113/Fusion-Razor-Blades.html https://www.amazon.com/review/R1S06U3IFUIWGQ https://www.google.com/search?q=fake+gillette+razor&rlz=1C5CHFA_enTH962TH962&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn-fjumO76AhVkzTgGHZlsDyUQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1280&bih=1306&dpr=1 It's a huge scam, and none of the online selling platforms such as Amazon and eBay are doing a thing to stop it! What a crazy world we live in where scammers reign supreme! Lazada has become the worst place when it comes to counterfeit items in the last year or so. Formerly, it was very rare I had to return a product I suspected was counterfeit. Now I'd say 1 in 10 purchases are counterfeit items!

What most people fail to take into account is that the human body is very resilient but at the same time prefers to always be in a state of homeostasis. That means that it takes time to change "bad" habits (and yes, I consider 3 square meals per day to be a bad habit). When you start OMAD after years of eating 3 square meals per day (and endless hi-carb snacks throughout the day, which is now pretty standard for most people), naturally your body is going to rebel in no uncertain terms LOL! Give it a week or so for it to realize that OMAD is the "new normal" and those feelings of starvation just disappear. In fact, now that I am more or less OMAD all the time, if I do eat something during the day other than my OMAD meal, my body reacts negatively to THAT! As I said previously, I am VERY active throughout the day. I swim laps as a rigorous mid-day workout (1.5 km), run 5k in the evening, and workout in the gym 3 times a week, plus ride my mountain bike on weekends. OMAD provides all the energy I need for this lifestyle. Practicing OMAD for several years now with no negative effects on my recreational activities or general health has proven to me that these scientifically UNFOUNDED notions of 3 meals per day, and "breakfast being the most important meal of the day" are just plain nonsense. We are pretty fortunate to be living at a time in history when legitimate Science is beginning to dispel many of these old and very unfounded nutritional myths, and regardless of age or the state of your present health, it would be wise to embrace science rather than unfounded myths when it comes to nutrition. Just my 2 cents worth ????

Yes it is true that few foods naturally contain sufficient vitamin D to meet daily requirements. That's why many food products are fortified with it. For most people, the best way to get enough vitamin D is taking a supplement. There are two forms: vitamin D2 (“ergocalciferol” or pre-vitamin D) and vitamin D3 (“cholecalciferol”). Both are also naturally occurring forms that are produced in the presence of the sun’s ultraviolet-B (UVB) rays but many people have insufficient levels because they live in places where sunlight is limited in winter, or because they have limited sun exposure due to being inside much of the time. Also, people with darker skin (in my case, a deep suntan from surfing) tend to have lower blood levels of vitamin D because the pigment (melanin) acts like a shade, reducing production of vitamin D. There are, however, a number of foods that do contain VItamin D beyond those you mentioned. The best sources are the flesh of fatty fish and fish liver oils, and like I said, many food products are fortified with it. Here's a sampling of food that contain vitamin ???? Cod liver oil Salmon Swordfish Tuna fish Orange juice fortified with vitamin D Dairy and plant milks fortified with vitamin D Sardines Beef liver Egg yolk Fortified cereals

In BKK, there are a few pharmacies that have a good reputation for selling "difficult to find" items that are GENUINE pharmaceutical grade drugs at reasonable prices. There are also many pharmacies that sell counterfeit fake stuff, so it is wise you are concerned. I live in Pattaya since 2018 so things could have changed (since Covid) but at the time, there were three pharmacies that were all highly reputable and trustworthy in this regard. IMO, the the two best ones were on Sukhumvit Road. South East Pharmacy and KS Pharmacy. Both are quite close to each other. If you are taking train, get off at Nana or Asoke BTS Station or Sukhumvit MRT Station. They are just a few minutes walk from these train stations and their storefronts are large and very easy to spot. Along Silom / Rama IV, there is another shop call S.C. Drugstore. It is easily accessible from SalaDeang BTS Station or the Silom MRT Station.

Thanks but I checked them out (iCare) and they have a pretty bad reputation according to Google reviews. Curiously my iPhone has been behaving itself lately with no dimming issues, but I did find a shop with outstanding references should I need it, so I'm offering it here for anyone else who is searching for a GOOD place to repair iPhones. It is iOS Restore Pattaya iPhone iPad Repair ร้านซ่อมไอโฟน ไอแพด พัทยา. The Google map link and details including reviews is at https://g.page/iosrestore?share According to the Google reviews, the owner is Apple certified, fluent in English, has a reputation for fast, fair, and friendly service with very reasonable prices, and out of over 150 reviews there seems to be almost no reviews below 5 stars.

How do you think moving to Thailand improves your low VItamin D? Just curious. If you think it is a sunnier climate, think again. It's an unfounded myth that sunlight alone provides sufficient vitamin D for most people. If that was true, I would not have developed a Vitamin D deficiency considering that, at the time, I was an avid surfer living in Florida, and spend an average of three hours out on the water every single day.

If you read my posts you'd already know that I use a stand-alone Vitamin D-3 for that purpose. As for the synergistic quality of a "good" brand of multi, they are designed specifically to provide optimal ratios of each vitamin so there is not an imbalance as you are suggesting. The actual truth is...No matter how healthy you think you are, there are some nutrients you can't readily absorb from food, especially for people who have hectic schedules and can't always indulge in the luxury of a well balanced meal all of the time. And that happens to be the case for the majority of the population! So, you are quite mistaken! There are a number of excellent reasons that a good multi is beneficial to almost everyone, and no downside to their use for almost anyone. Multivitamins are simply a way to cover all the MDR basics, and it is as. simple as that.

Since the subject of this thread was about WHERE TO BUY a good brand of multi, and not about the pros and cons of using multi's, you are really driving this thread right off the tracks. With all due respect, if you want to have such a debate about the pros and cons of using a multi, start a thread that is dedicated to that. For some strange reason, this particular forum always seems to attract people hell-bent on derailing threads with totally off-topic posts. It would be so nice if people would stop doing that.

I did NOT say that vitamin supplements were a substitute for good nutrition. Even if you eat proerly, you can still develop a micronutrient deficiency WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING IT until a blood test defines it. I always ate healthy. I didn't follow a prescribed menu but I let my body tell me what t needed and it always seemed to work. FInding out that a had a serious Vitamin D deficiency was a complete surprise to me. I did not have any noticeable symptoms, and it was only routine blood tests that exposed it. THAT is precisely why a good multivitamin supplement is beneficial for EVERYONE. There is no downside to it, and there is a significant preventative upside to it, no matter how healthy and fit you think you are. Again, it's just good insurance...no thing more, nothing less.

Sounds like you've used ePacket before, and good point about EMS and ePacket getting loaded on the same planes. That makes sense but I'm guessing the epackets get bumped if there is not enough room. No big deal though, as long as it is not the proverbial " slow boat to China " ???? 240 THB is a great deal compared with FedEx's rip-off rates!

I am going to be shipping small packages to CHina on a regular basis from Thailand and looking for the best economy possible. I checked the Thai Post Office but can not get details on EMS World rates vs ePacket rates. This is what I got for a 300 gram package: Obviously, the "epacket" rate" looks like a bargain compared with the "EMS World" rate but I'm not sure what the difference between the two are, or if the ePacket rate has restrictions. There must be a BIG difference between the two for the prices to be so different. Can anybody clarify?

I think you miss MY point. Most people (like me) have no idea they need a supplement until they have a health issue discovered through a blood test (in my case). Since a good multi supplement has no side effects and really is not that expensive, I simply think of it as a cheap insurance policy that minimizes the change of a deficiency . You might think that a deficiency would be pretty noticeable but in my case it was not. I thought I was fine but my doctor was alarmed at how low it was and put me on a one week course of super high Vitamin D before having me switch to a more normal high potency one. And it also just proves the fallacy that simply being out in the sun will give you all the vitamin D you need; three hours under a hot Florida sun every day in the summer time is intense! By that reasoning I should have had Vitamin D to spare LOL!

I think it's so funny that this forum seems to be a magnet for people that want to turn a simple request like "where to buy a good multivitamin" into an unending esoteric debate that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the thread! I good multivitamin may not even be necessary for most people but taking one is not going to impair your health one little bit, and for some it may be a very wise move! I have always been nutrition-conscious and active in sports my whole life. When I lived in Florida I surfed every day for several hours, and I ate in a very health-conscious way, cooking my own meals and staying away from processed foods. Considering my excellent nutrition and how much time I spent outdoors under a hot Florida sun, I should have been the last person to develop a Vitamin D deficiency but that's what a blood test revealed! That is when I started supplementing with a good multivitamin, and a few other vitamin supplements...AFTER researching them thoroughly, and from science-based sources. I am VERY thorough when it comes to researching health topics, and don't just "read a few articles" You can believe whatever you like but I think it might be smarter to not just make bold statements to the effect that vitamin supplements are not important for most people, just because you have "read a few articles" to the contrary.

That is a pretty uninformed deduction to infer that zinc picolinate supplement formulations are unsafe, based on the fact that picolinic acid is used in herbicides! The article you referenced does not even have to do with health concerns of zinc picolinate but is simply a description of herbicides. Zinc picolinate as a health supplement is a zinc salt of picolinic acid. It is NOT the same formulation as what is found in herbicides, nor is it the same concentration. Zinc picolinate health supplements do NOT have any known side effects when used as a health supplement at recommended dosages. According to a GENUINE health concern study of zinc picolinate, the study concluded that the use of zinc picolinate as a source of zinc, when added for nutritional purposes in food supplements, is NOT a safety concern: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2009.1113 I don't mean this as a personal criticism, but so much information that gets posted on this forum is poorly researched, misleading, and nothing more than rubbish. If you are going to make a bold claim like you infer in your post, do a little more research!

You know, my knee-jerk reaction to Customs getting their hands on my hard drive and me not getting it back without paying ransom for it were ill-founded. It i simply one of four back-up drives, so no worries if something bad happens to the drive. My experience with Customs has also been very upsetting. They once set an arbitrary value on a package coming to me from Japan that should have been delivered duty-free to my door, but they valued it at 10 times the value of what the enclosed invoice listed! I had to make photocopies of the store's website to show each product with it's listed price to get them to release the package, and then it took over a month for them to release it, and then the had the nerve to charge me an inspection fee, which meant I had to drive one hour to the only post office that handled packages with payable customs! That was just one of several other Customs fiascos I had to deal with here in the "Magic" KIngdom! The way the drive is being shipped now, has a declared value of under 1500 THB so in all likelihood, it will never get in the dreaded hands of the ransom bandits (I hope). Just the price of living here I guess, Customs agents and policemen who both seem to create their own little retirement nest-eggs with such nonsense.

Just so you understand...he did not say it could not be done. He said he did not want the frustration and wasted time of doing it since internet connection in that part of Maine are slow and cumbersome. I wasn't about to argue with. him, and just moved on for another solution which I found.

Sorry if I came off negatively to your comments. I'm sure you are correct that it can be done without a lot of hassles but that depends on your location. The computer IT guy I am dealing with is a stone-cold and well-credentialed professional with a lot of experience...but he is located in a part of Maine that does not have super-fast fiber or anything approaching that. He simply said he did not want to attempt it because it would be problematic and time-consuming to try, and rather than argue with him, I accepted what he said and moved on. The only reason I even posted this thread was because FedEx quoted me a ridiculous price on shipping which was sure to lead to a Customs inspection and I've had nightmares with Thai Customs in the past and wasn't looking for a repeat performance. My problem was solved when my freight forward said he could ship the drive for only $28 USD. It meant that the total value of the shipment was under the duty free amount of 1500THB so in all liklihood it will simply be delivered to my door withut the dreaded Custom dudes getting their hands on it.

It's actually one of the best places on earth to live if you feel the need to get back to basic human values. The relatively slow speed of internet connections is not a big concern to me, even though I am a photographer working with very large files that I need to upload to clients. The connection has always been robust enough for my needs, except in this instance where I thought a 4tB hard drive could be moved into the cloud without issues. No big deal; my package forwarding shipper in the US has a good deal with FedEx and is only charging me $28 USD to ship it. The computer IT guy is giving me an invoice in the amount of $0 USD for inspection-only, which means that the combined value is under 1500 THB, so most likely it will avoid the dreaded Custom inspection.

I know...I just feel the feed to climb up on my soapbox from time to time ????

That's a very level-headed response and I appreciate it. As I said before, I don't know what the efficacy is of taking a multivitamin, and supplementing with Vitamin-D and Zinc picolinate is. There is no definitive proof that you're chances of contracting Covid are lessened BUT there is positive clinical evidence pointing in that direction in the case of Vit D and zinc. They are both incredibly cheap and there is no downside to using either of them, so, I say...why not? As for multivitamins, it just makes me feel good to know I am getting my daily MDR (even though I disagree with MDR recommendations (in most cases too low)...but again, it's more like insurance and peace of mind.

I’m sure this topic has been addressed in the past but this forums search engine is not turning up a single thing. I need some good recommendations for a repair shop in the area. My iPhone 7 screen is intermittently dimming for no reason at all and it’s driving me crazy! I have researched and tried every possible fix with regard to settings and fully reset eVERYTHING, even doing a full restoration including firmware, so it must be a hardware issue. I recall reading a thread on here a few years ago about some shop in one the Downtown malls that did outstanding work, was fluent in English, and very fair in price. So if any of you have any suggestions I’d certainly appreciate hearing them. Thanks much!

Listen guys, I know a lot of you like to take a simple question and turn it into an unending debate That goes completely off-topic. if you will recall, this thread was a question about customs, not computer IT. The simple fact is that sending the hard drive by FedEx it’s going to be a much simpler solution than trying to upload it into a cloud. FYI the computer technician I’m working with is VERY qualified much more so than me or any of you. He does not want to upload it to the cloud! I’m not going to waste my time or his debating his decision. So, consider this discussion closed, and thanks to those of you who provided helpful comments.

What does your post have to do with anything related to this thread? I made a point of saying that Vitamin D and Zinc Picolinate have indeed been clinically proven to have efficacy with lessening the chances of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Just how do you equate them as being akin to 19th century patent medicine scams? Sure! There are many supplements on the market today that are total scams, but a good multivitamin, Vitamin-D supplements, and ZInc-related supplements are not scams at all, and can be good to use by anyone, regardless of their health condition.