Everyman

Really? It took me 15 minutes to put the app on a new phone and I was in Australia at the time. And I am not Australian lol

The Google Pixels are also well supported, but if you buy a <deleted>ty 5,000 baht handset don’t expect updates or for your apps to work forever.

Correct. But in defense of Thailand, Thais have scarcely more rights than we do. A few more. But it’s just not a nation or system that respects human rights.

I moved to Thailand 21 years ago, and have spent about 12 of those years living here full time. I’m not retired, but these days I stay part time living here and the rest of the time in other countries. Other countries can be pretty screwed up too, but Thailand is becoming more nationalist and xenophobic every year. It gets harder and harder to stay here full time. So I just don’t.

They absolutely do not care. I’m surprised there hasn’t been any violence over this. But there will be consequences. Not trying to assume that you don’t have serious money kicking around, but for someone who does, would you put it in a Thai bank after all this? I’ve only got 5,000 baht in my account and I’m worried it’s too much. Would anyone in their right mind transfer over a million dollars? Or even be comfortable leaving the 800k for a retirement visa, in the bank like is required? This is going to be an expensive problem for Thailand.

Thats That’s the problem with crummy Android phones that never get updates. If you did actually use more apps you would find that the BBL app isn’t the only one failing. An iPhone 11 released 6 years ago still runs the latest operating system and the latest BBL app. Actually, since the BBL app supports iOS 14, and the oldest phone to support that is the iPhone 6s which was released in 2015, you could be using a ten year old iphone and still not have this problem..

I’m sorry to hear you are still unable to send to your joint account. Good luck with getting BBL to change และ to and (or it is AND? Who knows). I hope my comment was helpful.

It says: Banking partner Tranglo SGP (THB)

It’s already gone on my phone, since it works now. Just create a new recipient, the same as the old one but with your full name instead of it missing your middle name. If the old one isn’t missing your middle name then I have no idea.

I just had the same thing happen to me ten minutes ago. I checked the recipient name and realized it didn’t have my middle name. Worked great for 8 years without one, but suddenly stopped this morning. I went to “fix transfer” on the Wise app, added my middle name and the transfer arrived within a couple minutes.

Almost universally people “playing by the rules,” are on retirement visas. Without that they would be struggling visa to visa, rule-change to rule-change like the rest of us.

You don’t think so? 🙄 People were doing it just a few years ago legally in Thailand without using agents. Did the new rule time travel through your memories and change the past? Do you think that new rule arrived everywhere on Earth at the same time? What you are saying doesn’t make any sense.

There is no charge for the Thai QR code payment system.

Many many countries do it. You can do it in the USA, you don’t even need to be in the country legally. You can do it in Hong Kong without even going there. I did in the Philipines and Vietnam, second day in both countries. Laos was the same but I decided not to open an account. Every time some new nonsense rule emerges in Thailand the apologists say “it’s like that everywhere,” but it almost never is.

To get a DTV you have to show half a million baht. What do you they expect you to do what that money? Turn it into cash and carry it around Thailand in a backpack?

Since I’ve been rejected more than 40 times trying to open an account at other banks and branches, I’m just going to hope my account doesn’t get flagged and that the situation will blow over by the time I need a new debit card in 2028. If it doesn’t , I’m just going to stay away from any bank branches and make do with the app after that and no card. If I get a new passport I will make sure not to update AIS with my new number, so that the passport numbers on the accounts still match.

It does not work when using an agent, anymore. There have been numerous threads and news articles about this.

Chilis have a lot more flavors than just hot. I like to use de-seeded chilis. Not so it won’t be hot, but because I want to use more chilis for the other flavors as well. The idea that hot food will hurt you is a myth. You can find a website that will agree with pretty much anything you can think of. Pad krapao without chilis is not padgrapao. I do think you could use finely diced and crushed sweet red or yellow bell pepper, (capsicum). What Thai people called “giant” (yahg) peppers. I think that would never occur to a Thai chef though to make it that way for a foreigner, because they seem to have decided that foreigners don’t just want not spicy food, they want BLAND food, which is why they make it for you like that. It’s a shame that it forces one to conclude that Thai food is bland apart from chilis. It’s a rich cuisine, in fact, with many chefs who refuse to make it properly for foreigners because of request or reputation.

Last I heard he moved back to New Zealand. More than 10 years ago. But I have also noticed the trend that the frozen accounts are almost all in Pattaya.

When I opened my account with Bangkok Bank 18 years ago there was no requirement to have a NON-IMMIGRANT visa, although I did have one. Since then since I don’t work in Thailand and I am still way under 50, I got a DTV, expecting to be able to open an account on it. Then I find out later that it won’t be considered a long stay visa, and they have this new rule. Is all of that really my fault? The 50 year old thing is pretty arbitrary. I am pretty sick of people being so smug about it, over the last 20 years when the only thing they did to “get legal” is be old.

Oh, really? I seem to have struck a nerve.

I bet you most of these smug types blaming customers for their accounts being frozen, are on dodgy retirement visa extensions from agents. Someday they’ll get a big surprise when they find out they’re really on overstay and end up in immigration lockup with nigerian scammers.

Wait…what happens on Friday?

What type of visa (or visa exempt stamp) did you have when you opened your account and have you since switched to another visa type that they have a record of? I opened my account with a work permit in 2007, but in 2014 they “moved” my account to another branch in Bangkok in a totally different part of the city when I went to the other branch to get a new debit card. I am American so I filled out the corresponding tax paperwork, but at the time I only had a visa exempt entry stamp. Anyway, good to hear they didn’t scrutinize you but I am also worried that one day the app will send me that dreaded message.

Why do Thais think foreigners want to rent somewhere and stay in that one place? Why not travel around, staying in different hotels. Is there something wrong with doing that and having a bank account at the same time? It’s ridiculous.