pussycatdoll

I lost a good friend to throat cancer....

He did smoke cigarettes.

And that is what caused the cancer....

Does this man smoke ?????

If not then I am truly sorry.

If he did .....then this is the outcome that many will succumb to 

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Not much sex available there for old men ....... which is why we chose the third world.

Can't imagine anyone except for Americans considering SA.

Had some hot girls in Malta.........

Just saying

3 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Thank Sheryl. Just called my First Direct Bank in UK who tell me SWIFT transfers in GBP are FREE of charge. I did one in January, but it came out on my Foreign Currency Account statement as a NO BOOK TRANSFER, as did one from my Pension company. All my T'wise to my Savings account in THB say FTT.

It's a minefield. 

I tried a test tranfer from First Direct to Kasikorn......

came through in 2 days , no charge from First direct and coded as foreign transfer.

But as 65,000 baht is becoming very close to the wire due to exchange rate, hoping the combo method is still ongoing, as I have a sum of 500,000 baht in kasikorn......

Might be able to get to the 800,000 in time for seasoning end september 2019.....Not a route I prefer though.....And, will all my Swifts appear as foreign?

2 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

500,000 + 360,00 (12 x 30,000 ) = 860,00. Why the question?

Because I wanted to ask it.......it is not the total amount that interests me, but the transferred amount being less than 65,000 baht.....why did you ask me?

15 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

20 minutes ago, pussycatdoll said:

Ok that is my question answered.
I called into my kasikorn branch today, having already checked the Mastercard rate for the day, it being 40.72 baht to GBP.
I asked about transfering larger amounts from my UK bank than I am a able to take from ATM,s which, clearly are not coming from overseas into a Thai bank, this has been my preferred method using a no fee UK credit card.
They told me a bank transfer, not Swift, of a ball park figure of 1000 pounds would convert to 40.32 baht plus a 200 baht fee.
I believe my Uk sending bank is free, but will check again...
Seems like combo using this method is going to be my best bet.
 

Mastercard rate is not known until the following day. What UK bank gives you free transfers? Santander would charge me £25. I'm going to check whether a Starling bank transfer (similar to transferwise) is shown as a intl payment

Ok The current mastercard rate live online isn't going to be far away, I would have thought, especially as Kasikorn may vary slightly too. I was just trying to highlight the difference between the two.

I use First Direct, I did not see a rate quoted for overseas transfer, I will check thouroughly later.

Updated with what I just found from First Direct Q&A.

Outgoing international transfer (online)⁴

To any bank account - £0

24 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Yes you can. But the 32.5k is not enough to reach the total of 800k baht. You would need about 10k more in the bank.

Ok that is my question answered.

I called into my kasikorn branch today, having already checked the Mastercard rate for the day, it being 40.72 baht to GBP.

I asked about transfering larger amounts from my UK bank than I am a able to take from ATM,s which, clearly are not coming from overseas into a Thai bank, this has been my preferred method using a no fee UK credit card.

They told me a bank transfer, not Swift, of a ball park figure of 1000 pounds would convert to 40.32 baht plus a 200 baht fee.

I believe my Uk sending bank is free, but will check again...

Seems like combo using this method is going to be my best bet. with my 500,000 already here.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

That is still shown in the other police order 327/2557.

"(5) Must have an annual earning and funds deposited with a bank totaling no less than Baht 800,0000 as of the filing date."

Not mentioned the police order that has been amended since you still have to prove the income for it.

So Ubonjoe.....in your opinion as someone whose views I trust on here.

do you think that 500,000 in Kasikorn bank plus say 30,000 Baht into said account every month  from UK is going to be acceptable?