Dart12

I have heard more than a few cases of having trouble getting back in if a volunteer visa is on your passport. for those saying they will always know you had one, even if you get a new passport... Let's be honest, most aren't doing anything beyond flipping thru your book when they stamp you. they are not checking you online. Getting the new passport makes it so you don' t flaunt it in their face. And yes, the fact they are villifying people that got those when the gov PUSHED people to get ONLY a long term visa if they needed to stay near the early stages of the pandemic...this is very harsh. Of course, they then continued with cheap covid visas for 2 years and the volunteer visa buyers who did what the gov told them, and was really only option offered...are being hurt by it.

1. I have no idea why you wouldn't choose an unlimited data plan monthly when the price is the same. You might find once you have unlimited you'll never understand why you did'nt have it on your phone all this time. 2. If your phone has a 2nd sim card spot, you can keep your old number and plug in the new card for all your data and calls. All incoming calls to your old number will still be free too. 3. If you don't have a second sim card spot, you can now use an Esim with your old number, and you still get everything in #2

probably heavy video streaming time for all people at home during those hours

no contract, good for one year, one time fee of 1400 for 15 mbps. 1650 for 30 mbps

both gf and I have phone in the house. So all good. 4 years and running no problems. What in the world are you downloading in this day and age? If you need that, yes have a designated device in the home (which is what my suggestion was). Know your own needs. NO one but you will know what you need but you. I don't need it. I shared my experience, not recommended it. I also said "alternative", and something that would give him a 2nd device in the home and a choice he can make. I never said better (or worse). It's just different.

another option is you can just consider a cheap Android phone and use it's hotspot. 3000 baht for a samsung. I'm sure there are much cheaper, but then you have an additional phone and useable device in the house as well. I actually just use the SIM from my phone as the hotspot for the house. If I'm not there it's not needed, right?

did you mean 15 and not 150?

I don;t know of any that give free ANY network calls. Usually just free SAME network calls. Dtac is selling 15mbps and 30 mbps unlimited data plans for 1400 and 1650 ish I believe for 1 year

App sometimes doesn't have enough english even though set to english, so I use Chrome browser on laptop since Chrome has google translate automatically of pages. It's odd, I'll be on English on the site, but will still get better results if I then click to Thai as the language and then it translates everything on page including reviews. sometimes have to click from thai to english to thai. Anyways, that's a workaround for me that works.

december 17 is final date I believe THAT is a pain in the butt. I'm gonna have to google that because I don't want to mess with my real one at all and lose everything. You have any suggested workarounds? Maybe use a gf phone to download it instead?

thats good info to know. I'll have to download it and have it ready for future uses. It is on apple too right?

Not to steal the topic, but anyone know a good Mirror / streaming app for Firestick. The one everyone recommends online is now a subscription fee. I really just wish firestick didn't kill browsers, then I could just stream straight thru the stick.

Most likely an EDU. And according to the bank that denied me opening an account when I presented my passport, it will be my FIRST EDU visa stamp. Again, I don 't know behind the scenes...but when I vetted them they were exemplary in service and seemed to have all their ducks in a row working with a school and everything. I was not trying to buy a fake edu with no classes etc. I actually want to learn some Thai and I turned those fake offers down. I wanted to get classes for my money.. but all that disentegrated when my contact there abruptly left. I'm just glad at this point I got my 9 months of visas. Sometimes gotta take the small wins and just roll with it.

If your tv is new enough, or advanced enough, as others said you may not need one. You can start there. I brought an Amazon firestick to thailand and it's what I use. I'm not sure they sell them this side of the pond though? But for others reading this, I think he'd just like to know exactly what android box you are using and a link to a specific one that you know is good enough to get the job done. Right OP? I understand the frustration of having to buy somehting you have zero clue about. Good luck, hope someone can point you in the right direction. Or if you can find a firestick that should work but I haven't looked for IPTV on it to know for sure.

New trick I saw is "free shipping" advertised. Then the seller delivers at their hidden fee/cost. But they've gamed the Lazada system to list them under free shipping.

Well, last time, my options ranged from 110,000 baht down to 50,000 baht for the same visa after much research. There were a few other different options in there as well. I had to go away from my longtime agent because it seems the big 3 had conspired against a certain demographic to not allow any further visas (Pattaya, Phuket, and Bangkok). It was only after researching outside those areas did I find that there was a plethora of more affordable options than 110,000. Even then, most numbers quoted were quite inflated from years past (I'm told) pre-covid. So now I'm just gonna see what the market is offering. I'm hoping with the covid being much less a thing now, and travel pretty open, that visas have gone back to more sane prices of pre-covid. I heard pre-covid year long visas were more like 28,000. I doubt it will ever be like that again, even without the gouging, because of recent inflation. But it would be nice.

Update: After answering my call Thursday then quickly getting off saying she'll call back, she did not. She also did not answer when I called again 3 hours later. Nor answer 2 more PM's over the next 2 days. However, she PMd today saying she has it and is sending it. I asked another question immediately once I got the message, but have recieved no reply in response despite FB telling me she did indeed read it. So, while i have no verification, this sounds like good news on the VISA front. I will now listen search for best deals for my next visa...if anyone has $$ numbers to share. (I do not qualify for retirement visa yet) and not socking over 600,000 for elite at this time. Thank you everybody for all your input into solutions if the agent didn't fulfill the contract. Cheers

Budget?

They didn't take responsibility for the overstay?? even though it was their fault. I'm already at 4000 baht overstay if this is the case. unacceptable in my eyes.

and then what would you do for the next visa? leaving country for visa run sounds like recipe for not getting back in imo. plus the 15-17k lost.

2022. Not sure how old you are, but online commerce is beyond established, it's killing offline physical businesses. It's just as safe if not safer due to all the documentation of conversation that occurs in written form. This company is going to do what it does whether I went to the office or done online. Btw, they did provide my first 2 visas of the 9 month plan without any issue. As well as many others I know. If you have a solution to kick them in the butt to provide the last one instead of deriding the platform of commerce, I'm taking notes of any suggestions.

do what I say, not what I do. Cameras off, masks off.

yeah. I don't know why, but I fear some extra sneaky unknown retribution soon as I give a hard push that will make it harder to get my NEXT visa, or them returning my passport 8 days late already with no new visa that I paid some 15-17k for already.

???? that I did not know. Thank you.

I feel like this is bad contractors at home. ie: they spent the money already from 6 months ago and now maybe robbing paul to pay peter to get ours done (hopefully). 9 months is a long time for some people to budget money.