Liverpool Lou

He doesn't necessarily have to be here long to be overstaying, perhaps he brought it with him?

"...so there's some dampening [sic] there?" Only if they get wet.

Bicycles are illegal in Thailand, then?

That's the only model that Casio has?

You don't want to share ? He did.. he said "thanks" and that he'd sorted it out, what else is there to "share"?

Do 7-11s provide dine-in services, tables crockery, waiting staff, bathroom facilities et al? If they did, you wouldn't be able to get served with bottled water for B7, there, either!

What do the other bars charge for a Coke?

"...they will try to overcharge where possible". B0ll0cks. That's just a gratuitous over-generalisation.

I think that could be quite difficult if, as is most likely, the OP is under the age of 50. By voluntarily trying to live in a country that doesn't provide a suitable visa, the "difficulty" would be of his own making.

1. Haven't been there for 27 years 2. 40°C in cold England last couple of days. 3. I know what's cheap. Laundry here is, for instance. 4. I use the laundry all the time since I divorced the "maid". 5. Seems I've got more of a clue than you have, I'm not asking a forum for cheap laundries.

The neighbours have the nests, not him.

Yes, all of them. I am here. Have you only price-checked one?

No, the ones you refer to post on forums to find cheap laundries in the land of cheap laundries!

Every laundry in Jomtien is cheap!

You're proud of that, it seems?

Your story doesn't quite seem right. Why would the foreign owner leave his bike unsecured and accessible to anyone for many months and why would you make modifications to "her" bike? Regardless, what's the problem? All you did was rent a bike from her, the foreign owner's problem should be with her, not you.

What are you talking about? The head office clearly said that insurance is not needed to open an account. That's right, it's not required, but up-selling the bank's products, that the staff and branch have targets for, is not forbidden, either. it's necessary.

Yeah, right, 'course they got a "good scolding". How would you know, where you privy to that "good scolding"?

Maybe that's why the branch manager had to apologize to me too, in addition to the employee involved. I'm not doubting all of what you say but your claim that the up-selling of authorised bank products was "corruption" doesn't do your credibility much good. They may have offered to open the account for you but I doubt that both the manager and the clerk were forced to apologise to you for a normal branch procedure in the obsequious manner that the tone of your comment suggests they had to.

The information shown on the website is clearly the minimum to open an account. If the staff were not under a certain amount of pressure (targets and financial benefit) to up-sell officially, they wouldn't do it, neither would those BBL product be available. Local branch managers are given the discretion to open new accounts as they seem fit for their branch, using official BBL products as incentives from which both the staff and the branch benefit. All the branches/staff have targets relating to products promoted by the bank.

Why doesn't my Bkk bk book show it when I update my bank book, it shows other charges. ? Because the DWP credit has the charge taken from the pension transfer before it hits your account. There is no withdrawal of the charge to be made from your account. The SMS reads "DWP has transferred B999,900 (B1,000,000 less B100)".

Nope....But, bank SMS does not deal with cash movements under 500bht, so not totally sure, but I am sure that when I get statements there are no 100bht withdrawals... I'm not saying that there is any B100 withdrawal, there isn't, I'm saying that my DWP transfer has B100 deducted from it before it is credited to my BBL account and the bank's SMS every four weeks specifically states that. The SMS reads... "DWP has transferred B999,900 (B1,000,000 less B100)".

They may offer insurance, but when they make it compulsory - that's corruption and violation of the bank's regulation. That's why the head office's reaction was prompt and ruthless. No that does not constitute corruption (an illegal action) on the part of the bank's staff. The procedure that that employee followed may have been implemented locally under the authority of the local branch manager, giving the employee no choice. I'd be interested in which bank "regulation was violated", can you quote that official regulation?

I guess OP is a decent human being, so is going to assist him. I'm sure that he is decent but, no, he won't be assisting him in the manner needed because he cannot. Unless he returns to Thailand (and he has specifically stated that he won't be doing that,) he cannot provide the required residence document.

I just tried again and this time got statements from 1st Aug 21 to date emailed to me.