Boomer6969

Rarely see the same pussy twice.

Tourist don't buy milk, they get if with breakfast at their hotels.

Most definitely, the cost of energy will be reflected at all steps of the supply chain. Wages will go up, which will push prices up, even further, and so on. In one word: stagflation.

Ok guys, let's just drop it, the underworld wins. I don't want to get knee capped. Bye.

Hilarious, if you took money out of the local bank obviously you had nothing to hide, as your transaction was in full view of the authorities. But you didn't wonder why the dealer wanted cash? In France the largest legal cash transaction between any business and a resident is 1000 Euros, and it might be so elsewhere in EU, for good reasons.

Not on you wrist? Several? Water to my mill..

Indeed, but only because they have things to hide. Could be small thinks though, like whoring, drug addiction, etc...

You are kidding, UBS charges about CHF 25, for a similar amount and I get a much better exchange rate than if had changed to cash. Now maybe all this is easy for me, as I am a good customer and income tax exempt here in Thailand. So motivation for any dodgy business here is totally zero.

The possibilities, motivations are endless.

Isn't this what I wrote in my first post? Something like "so stupid that it leads to think of an intent to conceal some deal"? Breaking the law.

I transfer more than that every month, but not in cash. This story clearly illustrates the risk of travelling with large sums. Even in my backpacking years I was buying travellers cheques. There is absolutely no need t risk take such risk. I once forgot/lost my wallet in the taxi on arrival. I had some cash, maybe 500 Swiss Francs and a credit card in one of my bags, UBS sent me a new cash card, which arrived 3 days later at the office in HCMC, zero stress, zero loss. Plain stupid to carry large sums IMHO.

Talking of nonsense.. Thanks for the pleasant conversation.

Yep I am totally inexperience in cash economy. I use banks...

While legal it is so stupid that it can only be intended for some deal he'd rather conceal. [In a country where foreigners aren't allowed to have a Paypal account]..

Hmmmhh 300000 THB is 8,628.38 USD, in cask? and nobody asks any question?

The next step should be daily visits to hotel rooms for tourists.

He said he would shock them, wasn't that clear enough?

Well, I really enjoyed my holidays in times of covid. But, now I dread the idea of sharing overpriced facilities with hordes of barbarians. So I'll use my brand new LTR visa to holiday in nearby countries.

F35, submarines, etc.

Which documents need translations & notarisation? None of those needed for the pensioner visa as far as I am concerned. And it would be difficult to spend more than a couple of hours to apply and 90 minutes to get the visa. Also I wonder where you guys get all these figures from? And all the theories you develop are likely to be flawed simply because most of the unapproved applications will end up being approved in due course.

Well, if they wind down they will still have hundreds possibly thousand of people left to do yearly reporting and 5 years extensions, these would then be fully under the the control of OIs who are extremely creative in making our lives difficult. Right now, for people residing in Thailand, LTR visas are issued by Thai Immigration's Sathorn office, but they operate under the control of young and bright BOI employees. I am sure IOs don't like that, as this is a definite loss of opportunity, so ..

"Meth anus"? he doesn't even know where his head is. No wonder he can't remember he run away.

"just give it a go and see" is precisely what I did. I was matching their requirement but I was expecting them to come back asking for embassy/foreign affairs certifications which they didn't. They could see my documentation was consistent and went ahead. So blaming them for being picky and/or rigid would be evidently unfair. My only fear is that the whole thing fails due to lack of suitable candidates and that the limited number of survivors be handed back, for subsequent processing, to Immigration who would then harass us unashamedly.

Makes me feel better as 56/3.14 gives us a diameter of 18mm. I am ok now.

And what is the european standard?