Chaichara

And expat customers complain about the still low prices for pools, maintenance, and repairs by pool companies which for reasons of quality, professionalism, and knowledge of languages, employ expat staff. Such clients seem to want their cake and eat it.

Sometimes you need a real pool expert to talk to on the phone and in your language. Personal experience shows that WinWin is geared up to selling, selling, selling, to Thai customers and not to expats who might well pay a tiny bit more to a firm that can provide professional advice and a genuine e-commerce website with transparent shipping costs and conditions etc. WinWin provides neither; in fact when they detect a foreign voice on the phone they generally just hang up - even on one who can speak fluent (but not accent-free) Thai. It's different of course if like Sapparest, you already know exactly what you want.

Correct. Same as ภาษาฝรั่งเศส means French (language) What a load of cobblers gets posted in these Thai Visa threads. I've been here 22 years and never felt or known anyone to be offended by it. I'm not even offended when the Krauts call me Inselaffe, their pet word for the Brits. If one wants to hear frequently used offensive words about a non-ethic people, just go to the UK or the US. It seems to me that some expats in Thailand deliberately look for things to complain about or feel offended by.

Despite having been fully vaccinated in early December (Pfizer) I got full COVID-19 in February and was in an expensive international hospital for 7 weeks. At my age I've been lucky. Within days of being admitted, I received a call from some pig ignorant government official asking why I had not spent time in the Puket sandbox. It took my wife many minutes to explain to the idiot that I am not a tourist and I have lived in Udon Thani legally for 22 years and not left the country since 2016. He still did not understand. BTW, be aware that AETENA cover 80% of the hopitalisation, but not any medication or ICU directly associated with the cure of COVID and its associated pneumonia. These IV meds are very expensive. At home now, but a full recovery is expected to take several more months.

Bought on LAZADA perhaps? The advertisers on the LAZ -e-commerce platform include a great many scammers, especially among those that 'ship-from abroad'. Generally, Thai based suppliers are more trustworthy, but 20% of the orders are received broken due to inadequate packing, or even the wrong product. Getting a refund from LAZ is a minefield of excessively complicated administrative procedure but if you can wade through it, they will collect the return product for free - and then the waiting starts...