Khaeng Mak

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Are you serious? Criminal charges, your having a laugh.????

He is entirely within his rights to bring a claim against that disgraceful young foreigner who assisted the Thai staff.

The charges will have to be filed by a lawyer.

5 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Pathetic garbage. An utter disgrace. I hope he gets at least a year in jail, a hefty fine, and a permanent ban on visiting Thailand.

Yes, that young foreigner assisting the Thais is an utter disgrace. 

He was no doubt bent out of shape because the American lad got a bit of tail and he didn't.

2 minutes ago, SammyT said:

LOL. "I did it ages ago so it's okay" - great excuse

 

Every hotel or hostel I've ever checked into says that extras staying in the room are the responsibility of the individual guest. Everything he would have signed when checking in would have stated that. 

 

If you don't like how Thailand has become, why are you still here?

Thai apologist, don't like it go home, sanook nazi.

Maybe you can get a job with immigration checking TM30s.

What is most disturbing about this is that there is a young farang millennial assisting the Thais.

Mixed dorms are for having a crac.  Everyone knows this.  

Back when I used to stay in this style of room it was open slather.  Often people would jump from one bed to the next. Swap partners...and compare notes with a laugh in the morning.

I can't believe what all the boring old TV farts are posting here. 

Thai working on reception here the night before is at fault here not the guy.

I did this dozens of times when I was a young backpacker here in Thailand.

Thailand is done for... Sanook is now a dirty word.

5 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

I liked the fact that I could go into a pharmacy and buy drugs without a prescription. 

 

However it fosters a self medication mindset. 

 

I 'thought' I had eczema or psoriasis under my eye, and was buying prescription strength cortisone cream.

 

When the last cream made it super angry, I finally went to a Doctor, where I thought I would just get a prescription for a different cream.

 

Turned out I had Bowens Disease, a mild form of skin cancer.

 

There are reasons, which learned to my cost, about why medication usually requires a Doctor's script! 

Hi.  Thanks very much for your input.  However please keep this thread on track. I do not want it to devolve into a debate about the merits or otherwise of self medication.

I am happy to self medicate and have been doing if for decades. But only for minor issues.  I would never move to a country where I would lose a half day of my precious time just to get some antibiotics.

I also self medicate my pets. 

2 hours ago, sir charles IV said:

Thanks mate. There’s quite a few. Would be nice if there was an English version.


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No problem.  Just use chrome browser and google translate.  The information in each listing is usually pretty basic so translates ok. Most sellers will also provide you with a Line ID. So you (or your Thai friend) can call them using video call and get the seller to give you an online tour of the car before you go to see it. That will help you to see it is ok and also to check that it is not a scam.

And yes the prices on Kaidee are cheap. Because they are the real prices Thai buyers pay. Not the inflated prices that idiot newbie foreigners pay.

Just remember to get a copy of the sellers ID and check that it is he or she that is listed as the owner in the blue book.

I always meet the seller at the transport office. Do the transfer there and then and when your name is in the blue book hand over the cash payment for the vehicle.  If it is a lot of money just go with the seller to a bank first and get a bank cheque in his name (he can see the cheque is real) then off to the transport office. Only hand the cheque over when your name is in the blue book.

Also make sure you do up a bill of sale and get the seller to sign it and a copy of his id card (which you staple to the bill of sale) and then keep these documents for your records.

Oh. and as a final point. Remember that most transport offices will require you have a certficate of residence from immigration when you apply to transfer the vehicle blue book into your name.

2 hours ago, Bang Bang said:

Buying a big lot and selling it in small ones seems a greats idea. Is your friend an expat/Thai?

He is Thai.  I forget the exact figure that he told me. I think about 15 or 20 thousand baht for the big bundle of shoes. Comes from wholesaler in Bangkok (But the shoes come from abroad somewhere). The bundle is like a big lucky dip.  Usually at least 12 or more really good items in each bundle and then the rest is just ok stuff. He makes up the smaller bundles with at least one great item in each one. 

The trick is having the capital to buy a big bundle. I know it is not a lot of money but not many Thais have a lazy 20K siting around to play with. 

He actually got the idea because he started buying mini bundles off another guy on facebook (because he didn't have enough money to buy a whole big bundle). I lent him the cash to buy his first big bundle (which he paid me back within a week) and since then he has not looked back.

Good and simple business model really. He is kind of like a mid level wholesaler.

A friend of mine is selling motor bike plastics on Lazada and Shopee.  In an average week he gets three times more sales from Shopee.

He also sells "mini" bundles on facebook.  That is he buys a big bundle of clothes or shoes and then breaks it down into 10 or more mini bundles. His last one was a shoe bundle with 144 pairs. He broke it down into 12 mini bundles of 12 pairs. Sold the lot in 3 days.

Simon.  My girl is from a small rural village not far out of PP so I know the area very well.

I have during extended visits also worked as a volunteer teacher at some government schools there.  On the first occasion the kids from every classroom in the school came and tried to squeeze into the room in which I was teaching to get their first (up close) look at a real farang.

I note on your other thread that you now have a teaching position in CM. So maybe this thread is no longer relevant.

But anyhooo... here is my 10c worth:

I could never live in a village in PP for the following reasons:

1. There is zero eye candy.  All the 20-30 something girls are working somewhere else. In fact the population of most villages consists of the very old taking care of the very young. Mum and in a lot of instances Dad also are working either down south in Thailand or overseas.

2. It's too hot. In the peak of the dry season that entire area is a dust bowl. Hot as a furnace because all of the timber has long since been cut down.

3. It is a cancer cluster area.  There is a hyperbolic rise in the instances of cancer among the villagers there. I attribute it to unchecked and unregulated use of pesticides. And also, quite significantly, the increased use of fertilizers. The detritus layer in any of the waterways in that region are a highly toxic mix of phosphor and other sinister chemicals.  Just check out any of the locak creeks or ponds when they get low in the dry season.  They glow bright green...and no its not just algal bloom.  The chemical and fertilizer companies are entirely to blame here.  They prey upon the uneducated farmers and basically tell them the more chemicals they put on their crop the more money they will make at harvest.  Even the big and once healthy dams are now absolutely choked with duck weed due to over nitrification of the waterway. It is impossible to escape these chemicals.  Every thing you eat there has been grown and washed in the local water.

4. A sense of death.  This relates to point 1. There is no vibrancy in the villages. They are just full of old people in ill health waiting to die, or to get there next 3,000 baht transfer from nong Fa.  The more I got involved with the village community around me the more depressing I found it. While I was working as a volunteer teacher at one primary school they had a parent teacher morning.  There were no parents present of course, just the grand parents looking after the kids. It was a sea of nose picking, toothless, crippled, beetle nut chewing drunkards.

5. Gambling. That area is a hot spot for Hi Lo and all the associated financial problems (and violence) that flows from it.

6. Meth amphetamine.  One would think that this would not be a problem in villages where there are no 20-30 somethings.  But it is now a huge an growing problem among the elderly.  This is because a meth pill can now be bought for 80 baht which makes it cheaper than a pack of cigarettes.  

7. No seafood. Sure you can get fish and prawns from local farms but then I would refer you back to Point number 3 above.

I do hope that your circumstances have indeed now changed and that you can take up your new teaching position and avoid setting up camp at PP.

Best of luck.