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11 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

The SMS message centre number on my AIS phone is:

 

+6692301900

I think you've missed a digit.  Mine shows as

+66923010900

Also look at setting your local US Bank as a recipient for an online transfer and move the money using BBL's ibanking.  Might work out easier or more cost effective.

7 hours ago, parafareno said:

how hard is it ti get thai licence?

Considering the quantity and nature of your posts on here, I would say quite hard.

19 hours ago, Crossy said:

3. Not sure, the 1s are not smaller, it's just the way the LCD is arranged

15 hours ago, Guderian said:

Thanks, I'd figured them out except for 2 and 3. I'm still not sure what the third photo is telling us.

Photo Number 3 is the date.  251119 or 25th November 2019.

On 11/24/2019 at 7:34 AM, Don Mega said:

Cool thanks, just checked both my Kbank and BKK account and neither list PEA as a payee so kinda makes my question redundant, would be nice to set that up so I dont have to bother with it.

Setting it up with Bangkok Bank requires getting a form and taking it to the office/bank.  I can't remember if the form came from the bank or the electric company.

Can't say for every crossing, but I've experienced them at Nong Khai land border.

32 minutes ago, zenplay said:

Is it possible to apply in Laos or Cambodia (but not my home country) ?

As per post #3, only if it is your country of legal residence, and you will have to provide evidence of this.

1 hour ago, Leaver said:

Is it confirmed that Steak & Co is part of the sale of  Smokin' Joe's, or is it a completely separate business?

I'm not involved with it, but they were historically jointly owned so it makes sense.  Reported elsewhere as being Jap/Korean buyers IIRC.

6 hours ago, Number 6 said:

I think this story is bogus. They might place monitors above carousel as future deterrent but I'd suspect the stuff is actually x-rayed in back and tagged. So look for tell tale marks and stickers.

 

This will absolutely slow down baggage processing.

Yes it'll be done "in back", but downstairs actually, below the baggage hall.  It's usually done real time so no reason for it to slow down processing unless your bag is identified as suspicious and removed from the belt for further screening.  You might then see a mark or sticker or more likely they'll just describe it over the radio to their colleagues upstairs.

5 hours ago, Tayaout said:

I use promptpay and then send via phone number. You can then choose the contact from your phone contact list. The contact need to have already registered with promptpay. Hope this help. 

No need to do this.  You've replied to an old post and the functionality described is now available.

Was this compensation under EU261 (the value seems about right)?

Can you tell us airline(s) involved, original and final routing and timings, cause of delay, ticketing arrangements (one or multiple) so we can understand and perhaps use your experience?

5 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

I get the xray process before boarding planes for security reasons, but going out of the way to x ray all incoming bags is not a security reason, well, not including bio hazards, unwanted plants, seeds, etc which all countries are on the look out for on incoming things.  But sure seems like money could be spent in better ways.  

Bio-security is one issue, but the main reason for these is to prevent/reduce smuggling and to reap the associated financial rewards.

10 hours ago, bolt said:

when you reach the end of the application, you submitt it online, and then it gets approved or rejected.

Please provide a screenshot of the page where you think you submit it online.  I haven't completed one for a while (so maybe an older version) but at that time you confirmed the details you entered and the form was generated immediately.  No approval or rejection stage in the process.

This seems to be the same on the app (which this thread has mostly been discussing) and the website.

12 hours ago, Pib said:

But where "every" product manufactured is put in a room to burn-in for a few days to further check for any hardware problems/infant mortality failure that would require additional time, facilities, equipment, and manpower which means higher costs.   And that higher costs would probably not identify a significant quantity of defective material to justify the cost based on statistical data.

I can assure you that there were PC manufacturers who did exactly this as I worked in the industry.  Whether the current Chinese manufacturers such as Lenovo do I can't say, but some of their Western predecessors certainly did when reliability was perhaps prized more.

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i want to be cool like you but i don't see Service on the left.

Below "Top Up / Payment" and above "Points & Privilege".

On 11/20/2019 at 1:03 PM, Onrai said:

I don’t know where you are getting your information but I used TRANSFERWISE to transferred $US to Thai Bhat at Bank of Bangkok and just transferred 10,000 thai bhat back to my account in US. No problem.

Please go back and repeat what you actually did when you think you transferred money out of Thailand using Transferwise.  One of the first actions will be to select the currency you are sending.  In your case that'll be Thai Baht.  Please take a screenshot of that selection similar to the one I've shown here for US Dollars.

I'm sure many here will be interested given our inability to select Thai baht here and Transferwise's comments posted above.

3 hours ago, Pib said:

Maybe some other folks who have installed the 1909 update can look and see what file name shows for them.....maybe everybody ends up showing a 1909 (2) file name.

 

No (2) after the 1909 update for me.

2 hours ago, Pib said:

Burn-in is just to let it run continuously for X-amount of time like 48 to 72 hours to see if any "hardware" failure may occur....some refer to it as the infant mortality period.   With electronic type items the failure rate is the highest "early" and "late" in their normal life cycle.   Normally, if a new piece of electronics gets thru it first couple of days without a hardware failure it will be years before it possibly experiences a hardware failure.

Decent manufacturer's will have done this before it left the factory.  I would expect Lenovo to have done this.

The entries quoted for the OP and his mate of max 3 weeks (and as little as 2 days) with significant time out of the country do not appear to me to be the target of the "scaremongering", rather it is folk maxing out TV or Visa Exempt entries.  Different circumstances entirely.

13 minutes ago, localexp said:

i will be getting a non-o as soon as i can, just not in the next few weeks

Can I ask why not?  You've obviously been in Thailand with the "wrong" visa status, are planning to repeat this but also want to avoid trouble at Immigration.  This would normally be done with a Non Imm O Visa so why not get one?

45 minutes ago, Phulublub said:

No1...strange,then, that I have been doing this for years.

No2...You obviously know better than me what exchange rate I get when I do my transfers. 

 

Others may wish to check for themselves rather than rely on unsubstantiated nonsense from anyone, me included.

No. 1 - so have I (and others above) but I'm aware of the Ts and Cs and the possible repercussions so it's only fair that these are pointed out.

No. 2 - I don't know how  or where you do your transfers - maybe in your mum's basement - so how would I possibly know what exchange rate you get?  I was pointing out the difference I have come across between a bank's exchange counter and a withdrawal via a regular teller.  Also as pointed out above, this may vary between banks/branches.

Either way, my post was not "unsubstantiated nonsense" so maybe you should take your hands away from the keyboard before you embarass yourself even more.

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Try Deemoney, people were recommending it quite a lot a few months ago. There's an app on android. Check the reviews though as some issues recently

As of around a month ago, Dee money could not send from Thailand to the UK - they'd fallen out with a partner or something - but I believe the intention was to resume the service when possible.

3 hours ago, UKresonant said:

I could not find any stated rational, other than the e-visa system did not incorporate it in the initial design, and then that was cribbed across to the u.k. and France e-system intro. Some speculated that they took a dislike to people getting them and only leaving the country for a day and re-entering the next day continuously,  etc. 

I don't believe there was any particular reason for it not being continued and it was just the fact the evisa application system was written around the Chinese process which never had an option for one so it wasn't written into the software.

OP here again.

As suggested by many, I applied for and have now received a Non Imm O Visa, Single Entry, based on a private pension, valid until 14th Feb 2020.  My existing METV, valid until 21st Jan 2020, has not been marked as cancelled or anything else.  I am due to arrive at BKK on 7th December 2019 and have a return flight booked 59 days later.

Does it now matter if I get stamped in for 60 days on the METV or 90 days on the Non Imm O given my intention to obtain a Retirement Extension?  Will it make any difference to the procedure for the extension or the timing for doing this?  Will it limit my ability to travel outside Thailand at all during December/January, or even February if I lengthen my trip?

Any advice or comments appreciated.