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Was he regularly waving his head backwards and forwards and sideways. That means guilty.

Good!

Should be required to hand over all his passports, he has several.

In Chiang Mai yes. Don't know about other locations. Good luck.

Sure, we use BOLT for both, great service.

I gave a SAD emoji, I feel for you. Not the answer but BOLT has an easy access live conversation facility and they do have 'benefits'.

I did it for 2 years, worked every time, good connections.

Perhaps LINE: calls, SMS, video chat etc, would cover much of your needs, and free across countries, all you need is an internet connection, any provider. For calls back to Thailand from OZ using LINE, all free and a very large % of Thai people, even Thai business houses, banks and more are using line, all free Calls.

Once again? Other nationalities never.

My Thai son's MIL was diagnosed (by the head doctor at local small gov't hospital) with a leak in her heart system no treatment offered. It got worse family asked for second opinion. Refused. Family asked for referral to take her to another hospital for a diagnosis. Refused along with severe abuse about damaging the reputation of the head doctor and the hospital. She died. My Thai son tried to convince the family to request an investigation. Total no and son got abuse for his suggestion which would have damaged the reputation of the doctor and the local hospital. End of story.

Sure but don't forget he has several passports. And his private jet could easily be moved to one of the jet airports just over the border. He could easily get across the border and 10 minutes later be in his private jet ready to roll.

What I should have emphasised in my first message is that we installed a PAT remote controlled sliding gate opener closer about 10 years ago and the machine works well, never ever had a problem. But now we have problems with the very small remote controls, 2 have totally failed. So looking to replace the 2 totally failed remotes, hopefully at a reasonable price. AN member Sandyf kindly shared that his wife has an app on her smartphone to operate their PAT gate opener / closer. Someone posted a photo of the app involved but I now can't find that post. The first word of the name of the app was Smart but I can't remember the second word and I can't find it in the app stores. Would appreciate is a member can please share photo of the app and share what app store to search in. Thanks, appreciated.

Sorry to hear your situation. I admire your desire to achieve the best situation for your young daughter. There must be several other foreigners been through the same and got a good result. Hopefully you'll get helpful advice by PM. Good luck

I put you on 'IGNORE' twice before because you're an unhelpful loudmouth idiot. I'll try IGNORE again.

"I don't appreciate it as it is a very conspicuous sign of the westernization of Thai diet (and lifestyle)." I don't see that. I live with my Thai son, his Thai wife and 4 kids. My Thai wife has sadly passed on, she was a Dr. of medicine, studied for her numerous medical qualifications in Australia. Including nutrition including childhood nutrition. Her belief was that a good variety of Thai food provided good nutrition. But her studied opinion was that Thai toddlers / children were missing the high value nutrition gained from cows milk. She ensured our son drank fresh cows milk every day in addition to good quality quantities of breast milk. When our son (our only child) was mid teens she often explained to him the benefits of daily cows milk and she had found good printed materials to prove her point. But his solid food diet was mostly good balanced Thai fare, but with some typical western foods - best example, son grew up to appreciate good beef steak. Today son has 4 kids, 18, 13, 8 an 10 months. Son remembered his mothers comments and explanations re the value of fresh cows milk and every day the family consumes around 4 litres of fresh cows milk. (Family: my Thai son, his 4 kids, son's wife now a convert, and me.) But (from 2 paras above) their solid food diet is mostly good balanced Thai fare*, but with some typical western foods - best example, son's kids all love good beef steak. *A plus is that both my Thai son and his Thai wife completed bachelor degrees which gave them vast / excellent knowledge about nutrition.

Which brings the question; how many billion Baht does he still have in his bank accounts?

Months ago gg was posting irrational and frankly insulting things. I put him on ignore. Seems I took the right decision.

Suggest you do the same. My posts are accurate in regard to what I have experienced.

Whatever. Other benefits? I've never received anything more than my entitlement and I've never suggested I have received more than my entitlements.

K.Heinkn has mentioned previously that he doesn't receive the OAP or any other C'link benefits. So that seems to indicate that he doesn't have a C'link CRN (customer reference number). So I doubt that he's 'qualified' to discuss C'link policies and / or discuss centrelink interactions if he doesn't have a CRN.

I've just been reading some later posts. Further to the my post above (repeated from 14 June 05:30 am) calls using 001 800 611 4136 are toll free. As I mentioned I've used this toll free number many times from Thailand. It's always connected quickly and answered quickly. I've never ever encountered rudeness from any Centrelink officer (on the phone or when I did a couple of times initially visit the local big C'link office near Narrabeen just above Sydney), always good listeners, always pleasant, and always focused on the subject of my call. At least twice the officer on the phone has said 'please hold the line just 1 or 2 minutes so I can get some advice on this from my supervisor on this point'. Calls never went dead, officer was back on the line quickly with a clear focused answer. Always ended the calls with a clear and fully focused response to my question. We seem to have some members who love to have difficulties / drama with C'link.

I don't accept / believe everything I hear, neither does my son. Given the number of times a day / time taken, i've always believed that electricity consumption would be very small. let's be honest many folks aren't lucky enough to have background knowledge on many subjects. And there's no need to be rude and call them black sheep. My farang cousin is convinced there a multi part mechanical set up inside of every light switch. On the other hand he's a qualified and clever economist. Our focus is to get 2 or 3 new remote controls in operation.

Interesting, using mobile phone app sounds like a good move, can you please share some details of the app on your wife's / niece phone. Much appreciated.

I hope the information following is useful: It's a typical steel frame sliding gate, about twice the width of a medium size sedan car. The frame is steel, there's several lengths of conwood across the gate, that's all. When the installation team came they lifted the gate up onto wood blocks then looked at the rollers fitted to the bottom of the gate and said they were very poor quality and showed my son that they didn't roll smoothly and it was a bit of a task to make them spin even a little bit. They suggested they be replaced immediately with good quality Hafele rollers, available within 30 minutes, we did that cost of new Hafele roller set and installation 1,000Baht, all fitted in 15 minutes. Before changing the rollers it was quite a manual task to make the gate roll, after fitting Hafele very easy to make the gate move, and smooth and way less noisy. Hope that helps.

Thank you for sharing. Re the last 2 line paragraph can someone give more details where to buy / what specs to look for etc re 'programmable remote controls'. Thanks again.