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Update: I just tried preview testing using the other of my 2 USA bank accounts (rather than the one I've been testing with the last few days) and the quote was for only 4 hours. I have no idea why this would be the case but I'll take it. I now have a transfer in process that should complete in the promised 4 hours. This has made me less unhappy and hopeful that things will be back to normal by my next regular transfer date. Pro tip: it can be very helpful to have more than one bank account in your home country to send from.

I normally transfer a largish amount of money from USA to TH KBank every 2 weeks on Friday afternoon. Normally the transfer happens in seconds. Sometimes I'm told I will have to wait until Tuesday. But I figured out the delay is on larger amounts and I overcome this by breaking the amount in half and sending from 2 different USA bank accounts in 2 transfers. I don't really need the transfer in seconds but waiting until Tuesday is not acceptable. While the speed is nice the main benefit is the low fees. This has been reliable this way for the last 2 years now. This past Friday everything changed. You can plug different amounts into the preview in the app and all amounts down to 100 USD, and probably less, could only be scheduled for Wednesday May 20. So I was forced to use my US debit card at an ATM and got absolutely slaughtered on the exchange rate and fees. Damn shameless bandits. So I figured this was a weekend issue and kept testing the 100 USD transfer time every day. And it has only gotten worse. Now it's quoting Thursday May 29 as the earliest! So it looks like this is not going back to normal any time soon. The Wise week wait is unacceptable but so is the debit card thievery. I don't know what to do. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is it just me? Can anyone suggest alternatives more palatable then debit card rape? Does anyone know what blew up at Wise to collapse their transfer times? How long will it take for them to erase their "in seconds" promise from their home page?

Leave Jack ALONE!!!!

I've been with 50+ Thai women that are more beautiful, more feminine, more sexy, and vastly hornier than most 20+ Western women. Really.

In my condo one of the showers has this problem. I hang a Hunter's Fly Strip up high in the corner of the shower. It's a glue strip that traps them with no effort on my part. I also keep an inverted plastic bowl over the drain opening when the shower is not in use. I kick it aside at the start of a shower and move it back at the end. In addition I keep a bottle of glass cleaner spray to shoot down the one or two enemy I might see during the shower. These measures keep the problem well in check but don't resolve it. I'll give the suggested vinegar and baking soda a try.

Did you tell her this before or after the rogering?

Actually, that's not too far from what the geniuses are doing in Jomtien right now!

Blood on textiles is not a problem. Hydrogen Peroxide is your friend. Available at any 7-11 in Thailand. Works like magic and way cheaper than paying off the maid.

I'm sorry Mike, but this is Thailand. If they are outed, instead of humiliation, they will be subjected to jealous envy. There is no western-style justice being served here. This is simply a power struggle with winners and losers. Thaksin is cleaning house from behind the scenes to make room for his loyalists and consolidate his return to power. As they say, sit back and enjoy the show. 🍿

make 3 transactions a month from the UK using Wise and transferring funds to my BBK account. I usually make the transfer between 5 and 6 pm Thi time. It is in my BBK account the following day, just after 2 pm, UNLESS I transfer on a Friday when it arrives on a Monday. So are you saying that you are satisfied with slow service? ???? People want to believe these small nouveau financial outfits are as reliable as banks. As many people in the crypto space recently found out, they are until they aren't. I, personally, don't think its a good idea to leave a transaction open with them over the weekend. If you must do business with them wait until Monday to make the transaction. Just in case it happens to be the weekend they go out of business and all the money disappears.

The delays are not from bank holidays or time changes. They simply can't handle the load on payday Fridays. So they punt and leave transactions sitting in the drawer until Monday. It's still possible to have transfers happen in seconds on off-peak days as many posters still report. However, this still constitutes false advertising. "Transfer in seconds!" needs to be changed to "Transfer in seconds, maybe. More likely, when you really need it, transfer in DAYS, MANY DAYS!". I used to be able to get around this by breaking up my transaction into several smaller transactions. But today not even 100 baht will fly. Interesting that, as their service rapidly deteriorates, they raise their fees so we can pay more for less. Worthless.

"Surely you can plan ahead?" "Who's fault is it that you can't read a calendar?" You meet some of the nicest people on aseannow. Let's work on reading comprehension, shall we? I stated this same thing happened the last time I tried two weeks ago. Was that also a Thai bank holiday? And seeing that I have since been able to send smaller transactions it looks like a bank holiday (i.e. not being able to process transactions until after the holiday) is not the barrier. Is it at all possible for some forum members to provide helpful suggestions rather then opening with condescending attacks? Does being so condescending help you feel so much better about your selves?

I just got the transfer to go through by breaking it up into many smaller transactions. This cost a little more but not too bad. "Yes they can.. My 6 transfers last month all took less than 10 seconds. " Looks like they can still do smaller transactions of a few thousand baht in size at that speed (at least on a payday Friday, maybe its better on other days).

Every other Friday I receive money into my US bank account that I then send to my Kasikorn bank account. I have been using Wise for this purpose for months with the transfer taking only seconds. Two weeks ago, for the first time, it was delayed until Monday. Today I'm being told it will take until Tuesday. This is a massive degradation in service and it looks like Wise, for whatever reasons, can no longer be relied upon. What other International Transfer services are available that don't take too long? I don't need seconds. Hours or even a day is OK. Multi-days is not acceptable. Thank you for your recommendations.