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10 minutes ago, transam said:

Don't I know you.......?    🤔

Would you admit to it if you did?

7 hours ago, Forrests Father said:

I don't think we have a single waste incineration plant in Thailand. Put together some infrastructure and hire a crew of workers to collect plastic, wood/leaves and other garbage. Less PM2.5, less plastic but electricity to sell.

Incorrect.

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In 2016, Bangkok opened its first waste-to-energy incinerator in the district of Nong Khaem, turning up to 500 metric tons of solid waste into electricity every day.

From this article:

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/as-waste-to-energy-incinerators-spread-in-southeast-asia-so-do-concerns/

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4 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

There were occasions when I had close to 150 claims in a single year (daily physical therapy to recover use of an injured hand)

That would be multiple appointments/bills covered in one claim in my experience.

13 hours ago, Maestro said:

I am curious to know if any screen during the process says days that you are making an application for "STAYING LONGER THAN 90 DAYS"

Can't remember about on screen, but the email acknowledgment refers to it as an application and the approval email says your application has been approved.

Walking on a particular side of the pavement is "seedy"?  The things you learn here.

13 hours ago, CashMoon said:

How can I recognise if someone is stealing electricity from me?

Switch everything off and see if the meter is still turning.

Someone's been tinkering with the structure which has worked fine for years.  Yawn!

Can't find DIY and Electrical sub forums and whatever else used to be about there now if someone can point me in the right direction?

2 minutes ago, Keeps said:

I personally find Agoda to be excellent and seem to have a much different experience with them than some of the OP's on this thread have.

I'm with you and Agoda are my first point of call, and for almost two years during Covid I was using them every couple of weeks.  When I was going to revisit a hotel I would often discuss a discount but I think the problem was that regular front desk staff just don't have the authority to offer anything.

I have only one exception to that where I was lucky enough to talk to the manageress on about my 3rd or 4th visit and she helped me out.  I've been paying a reduced rate there ever since and it's a place I'm at regularly (2 or 3 times a month).

1 hour ago, JAS21 said:

Agoda shows a price without the ++.  So we never bother with them.

That's down to your settings and can be changed to show the all in price.

1 hour ago, villageidiotY2K said:

I've called the hotel directly and i was able to book direct.

Are you getting breakfast included in the deal you booked directly?

On 5/7/2024 at 1:15 PM, parallaxtech said:

If anyone is using it consistently, please let me know.

I've been using it successfully since it's inception and there are plenty reports in the visa section of others doing the same.  There's also reports of others having problems and as with many Immigration issues it appears different offices may have different requirements.

If for any reason you don't want to change the country setting to Thailand you can download the apk from other sites like this:

https://apkpure.com/starbucks-thailand/com.starbucks.thailand

You may have to change a setting allowing installation from sources other than Play Store.

I guess you're using a mobile but they've moved too on the regular site (I've just posted about it at the same time as you).  Doesn't sound as bad as yours but a pain nevertheless.

The listing of hot/recent topics and popular posts used to be the right of the thread/forum listings and now it's to the left.  Who thought that was a good idea and why, with all users familiar with where it was before?

4 hours ago, bkk_mike said:

On your phone, go to the settings in the play store app, and you should find a country setting.

Apparently you can only change this once a year, and to change it you often have to do something like add a local credit card to your Google wallet (you can remove it again afterwards if you want).

4 hours ago, bkk_mike said:

P.P.S. If you don't want to change the country of your Gmail account, open a new Gmail account and use it on another phone, and make this Gmail account a Thailand one. Then you keep one SIM in each phone.

You really haven't read the thread, have you?

On 5/5/2024 at 8:37 AM, LivingNThailand said:

An update for Phuket.  I just received an email for my 90 on-line report.   So, yes, Phuket has changed their policy (for now) and the 90 day reporting is not reset on the extension date.   Thank you for everyone's assistance.

Even if it had been, the email is automatically generated and would have came despite any reset.  Same happens when you travel abroad and the email is recieved at the no longer relevant date a couple of weeks before renewal was originally due.

9 hours ago, brianthainess said:

How do you open the jar ?

Get something like this from Lazada.

Create a new Gmail account with location Thailand, log in to it and try it out.  Nothing to lose as you can always log back in to your current one.  You could also re-install the app with a known good version from the Play Store as you will no longer be geo-blocked.

21 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Where is it ???

Location was in the post he quoted and I'm another who would back it.

OK.  Got them both, thanks. Not sure how I never saw the heart one before!

On eBay I use a couple of features to keep an eye on things.  One is adding items to my "Watch List" and one is adding sellers to my "Saved Sellers".  Is there any equivalent to these on Lazada?

I've currently been adding items to my cart which is as close as I can see to a Watch List but not ideal, so any suggestions to improve this or to get as close to a Saved Sellers list as possible would be appreciated.