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15 minutes ago, ukrules said:

I'm comparing it to more than 10 years ago.

 

I don't know about 10 years ago but I think it has been a requirement for a few years at least

58 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Wow, so if you apply for a single entry tourist visa they now want to see your bank statement?

 

That is nothing new.  It was like that when I applied last year as well.

18 hours ago, ukrules said:

Well that's changed at some point during the last 2 or 3 years if it's accurate.

 

Previously you had to prove you had 5000 pounds in the bank for at least 6 months without going below that balance.

 

It was essentially a bank account audit of your wealth - for a holiday visa - something that's so pathetic I hope it cost them millions of tourist months every year it was in operation.

 

It's still around that much for METV (6 month multi-entry).  I believe it said 200,000b on the form which is around 4400 pounds or 5600 USD at todays exchange.  I think 60,000b is for SETV (60 day single entry).

I am also in the process of applying for the METV.  A lot of the irrelevant questions are gone so it's much better now. 

I already submitted it but then they emailed me saying they need a confirmation letter from my hotel as well as their "Thai ID" whatever that means.  I think they maybe mean't "Tax ID".  The hotel won't give me any of that and the confirmation email I submitted wasn't good enough.  What should I do?

The last time I applied for a 60 day SETV I submitted an Agoda reservation letter for my first two nights at some hotel and that was apparently good enough.  Will that be good enough for an METV?

That just means more of these idiots are going to prison and losing the right to vote, which all sounds good to me.

11 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I have 8 vaccinations, including a bivalent Omicron booster.

 

I have spent the night with ladies infected with Covid, vaccination is clearly effective for me.

I'm at 5 with the last one being the bivalent one in combination with a flu shot.  Probably due for another one soon but I am not sure if it's still free for me.  Maybe only once a year.

They have the pills now that can save most people if taken in the first 3 days after getting infected. 

I see the new gov't coalition wants to try make cannabis illegal again.  I hope that's more bark than bite.

5 hours ago, AustinRacing said:

With tourism picking up it is time to cash in. 

Tourism is picking up?  According to this board Thailand is totally doomed and the serial whiners around here are never wrong.

On 11/27/2022 at 3:11 AM, KhunLA said:

Expats, retirees wanting to wear MJ leaves on their shirt, seriously.   And I'm the one living in the past ... how old are you ?

 

LOS ... scams.  Advertise if you want, smarter not to...IMO

 

 

 

 

 

Keep posting if you want to embarass yourself more. ????

I found shirts with the exact pattern I am looking for at the night market in Jomtien and at a store in Royal Garden Plaza mall in Pattaya.  Unfortunately, I haven't found one with the right color scheme just yet.

On 11/21/2022 at 2:57 PM, jcmj said:

They’ll be protesting on the streets big time if this happens. Many Thais have spent a lot of money opening cafes and farms. This will not go down well. 

There may even be a few 'random' accidents involving motorcycle drivers wearing dark visor helmets in the days and weeks to come.

1 hour ago, Boomer6969 said:

Won't make any difference. Trips to Thailand will become unaffordable for most westerners [me] before the end of 2023.

ftfy

57 minutes ago, Lucky Bones said:

Yes, the beach for dinner.

Ladyboys, mozzies, sandflies and flea bitten soi dogs make great company.????????

With the exception of sandflies, can find those other things just about anywhere.

4 minutes ago, parafareno said:

so how you setup password? i have option mobile hotspot but it does not give me any password

It should be pretty straight forward.  Google it if you can't figure it out.

11 minutes ago, parafareno said:

so when you tether, how you set up password so no other person can log in to your internet? i will try with my mobile tether and see if the speed will improve, if yes I will ditch that modem

There is no password required for tethering because only the device phsically plugged into the phone has access. 

The hotspot feature obviously does have a password.  You use that if you want to connect more than one device or don't want to have the phone physically plugged into your laptop.  Also comes in handy if the signal is weak.  You can put the phone near areas of your room that may have better signal strength, like near windows or doors.

1 minute ago, parafareno said:

is it modem? I use tplink small thingy where you insert sim card

No, it's on my phone.  I can just use that as a hot spot or tethered.  I don't need a modem.

As above poster stated, it totally depends on your location and signal strength. I currently am getting 29Mbps down and 12 up.  When I go to the mall near me I can get much faster than that.

4 minutes ago, fdsa said:

you are posting in

> Thailand > Business in Thailand, Jobs in Thailand, Insurance

forum, not "Australia > Business in Australia" or New Zealand or Malaysia or whichever else country you reside in.

 

You can try spin it however you want, still sucks to be you.

On 11/11/2022 at 2:12 AM, KannikaP said:

No !   If you have a Wise Borderless Account in GBP, or any other GBP a/c, and a Thai Foreign Currency Account, you could do it only in GBP, and pay 1% for the honour. 

Where do you get 1% from?  There are small flat rate transaction fees yes, but they are very transparent about those.

On 11/10/2022 at 2:52 AM, fdsa said:

well...

 

 

 

Sucks to be you I guess.  I didn't have that problem.

4 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Have you never experienced a hard heavy monsoonal downpour ?

You are asking someone, who just wants to complain about everything for the sake of complaining, to actually apply logic and reason to their baseless argument.

8 hours ago, Spock said:

I am a boomer and know a hell of a lot more than the younger generation about marijuana. Your youth was obviously nowhere near as misspent as it could or should have been. 

 

Whether legalising was right or wrong, what is wrong is allowing so many people and businesses to spend a lot of money setting up what they thought was a legal trade then change the regulations and force them out of business. The government should not be making up policies as they go along. This is just another example of the Thai government not thinking through a situation before introducing new regulations to the public.

That is not exactly accurate.  All the gov't did was decriminalize marijuana.  Selling marijuana for recreational use was never a part of that.

As long as you already have a prescription it's probably going to be cheaper buying them online.  I buy them from eyebuydirect.com in the US.  I am assuming there are online place in Thailand.