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bbko

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  1. I only buy if I can see the item in person.  Far too many are advertising in Pattaya, yet they are in another city and want people to send money with the "promise" they'll ship the item in the mail.  

    My wife got scammed out of a few hundred trying to buy some small item.

  2. The Line Groups posting about police checkpoints say there's many police in that area to keep an eye on traffic and those going the "wrong way".

    Edit; why is this in the Visa section? Seems Jomtien traffic is more of a Pattaya general topic, there's more in Jomtien than just the IO.

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  3. 6 hours ago, mosquitobill said:

    Are there any English speaking facebook experts out there who could come to my viewtalay condo and sort my locked out problem.I am quite happy to pay?

    Did you forget your password or did facebook block you?

  4. Many years back my Thai wife and I were starting our own business, and we went to the local government to apply for a license, there the lady working the desk had some sort of donation box on her desk.  in the middle of applying, she speaks to my wife in Thai and my wife translates to me "She's asking you to give money to the box", in my Thai understanding she said 1000b. I looked at the box and it was for some children's charity, to which I told my wife, we already give to the children's charities (clothes, food, toys).  The government lady shot me a dirty look and I kept my poker face.  I knew it was an attempt to squeeze more money out of me, but we really did/do donate, so I wasn't up for an attempted shake down.

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  5. I did my annual visa extension based on retirement last month here in Pattaya/Jomtien.  I've been doing extensions for over 15 years and this was the 1st year the IO asked me "Where does this money come from? Social security? Pension?", I said pension, they asked for a letter which I didn't have at the time, I went home, printed it out and came back later,  thankfully I start my renewal 2-3 weeks early for just such instances. 

  6. 12 minutes ago, Pib said:

    But to log into the SSA Online acct you will first need to have an acct which means you would first have to pass the identity verification thru ID.me or Login.gov. 

    Many months ago when setting up my ID.me account, I had to call them on my smart phone, turn on my camera and show them, IIRC, 2 forms of ID; my passport and my Arizona driver's license.  Now i can log onto id.me using a 2 step authenticator, works fine for me.

  7. 1 hour ago, impulse said:

     

    I guess you're not following the more recent engineering studies showing that the copper, metals and other materials required to fortify the grid(s) to charge all the EV's they have forecasted, far exceeds the capacity of all the mining operations in the world.  They're talking about millions and millions of tons of copper (more and faster than they're able to mine it), and distribution transformer deliveries that are currently in the 5-10 year range.

     

    So you're saying investing in copper will make me rich? Thanks.

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