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34 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Inverter? Do you mean 'transformer'?

Ah yes, probably, was a long time ago. AC in - AC out I think so yes, likely a transformer also the thing was heavy - like a transformer.

On 7/12/2025 at 2:20 PM, spidermike007 said:

Thailand seems to be obsessed with tarrifs, with wine in particular being one of the highest taxed products on the planet, and luxury goods taxed to a degree where it diminishes sales dramatically. The dunces who loves tariffs don't seem to understand you lower taxes, you increase sales, and you make the economy more dynamic. 

They don't care about sales, they've civil servants, there are no sales - only taxes

It's nowhere near as easy to replace a Labour party PM as it is a Conservative one - they're wise to that trick and always have been

In fact their system appears to be designed to make it nearly impossible to do. I can't remember the details but it's up to the party rules to choose a new Prime Minister.
 

2 hours ago, Fabio1980 said:

Same for me: around 30 euro.

You bank often doubles, triples or in the case of some US banks multiplies it many times.

For me the fee is 9.50 pounds per wire which is nearer to the real cost.

It's a money maker for the banks to add a 200 to 300% markup to these.

6 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Evidence. Sadly your attempt to point out a mistake backfires completely as demonstrated here. These are obviously shells

Haha, shows what I know about crime - nothing 🤣

9 times huh?

What does this little sign signify?

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

Anutin had taken to Facebook to assert that Chinese leadership objected to the casino plans during official meetings, and he suggested that these grievances contributed to a staggering 90% drop in Chinese tourists, which significantly affected hotels, eateries, and local vendors.

Annoying the Chinese always ends this way.

What surprises me is that someone had enough clout to destroy the tourism based economy on a whim to get some casino opened.

That is odd isn't it? Who?

2 minutes ago, cynic1 said:

Mmmm interesting. I better mail my big bag with a cash deposit of $20,000,000 US to ABA saves paying 10% to a legit bank in USA. 😁Does ABA guarantee that it will be safe?

Who cares - I never keep more than about $10k in there and only really use it for day to day spending when I'm in Cambodia.

This happened weeks ago, perhaps he was only away for a few weeks and due back well before the birth.

I wouldn't assume anything really. Also they have rasied nearly 50k in pounds which will likely help a little now she's on her own and without his salary.

11 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Of course, it is Thailand that has aligned against the US and moved towards China. The fact is there is only one thing that Thailand produces that has a relatively high demand in the US. That is Hard Drives, HDDs. Everything else Thailand exports to the US could be more easily and in many cases more cheaply produced in countries closer to the US. HDDs could be limited too. Flashdrives already hold as much memory as HDDs did a few years ago. SSDs hold more. HDDs are dying market. A trade war with Thailand on China's side could finish off HDDs as a consumer item almost entirely. And Thailand would lose one of it major industries.

There is redundancy in the supply chains, HDs destined for the US don't need to come from Thailand, they could come from somewhere else and the Thai ones go to Europe / rest of world.

WD/Seagate are not stupid enough to put all their eggs in one basket....again.

Why only 36% ?

Just now, hotandsticky said:

 

Yes....I should have been clearer. Not for Thais (which the OP obviously isn't).

Right, it made me do a double take though as I'm flying back into Thailand with my Mrs who is Thai in about a week

On 7/6/2025 at 8:25 AM, hotandsticky said:

Everyone entering Thailand has to complete a TDAC.

I believe it's for foreigners only right?

Depends if you're a tax resident or not and nothing is automatic anyway - you would need to declare income the following year and apply any double taxation agreements between countries.

So if you were to move to Thailand now (as in today) it's not possible to stay 180 days as we're already past the cutoff date by 1 day - there's less than 180 days remaining in the year - there's currently 179 days left this year so any day after today is a good day to move to Thailand and send as much money as you want.

You could stay for the rest of the year knowing that you're a non resident, but if you moved last week or last month then it's time to start planning if you want to remit a lot of money earned after Dec 31 2023.
 

4 minutes ago, Celsius said:

Well...maybe that retired working for you guy as he gets around 

Yes, that's the guy I was referring to.

7 minutes ago, Celsius said:

Imagine having to wake up every day to think of another stupid topic to "engage" your audience.

 

Then you have to edit your videos, spend some money on ads to promote those videos etc etc....

I think some of them do make a proper business out of it - one with multiple employees and they don't do all the editing, filming themselves, etc.

But we're definitely talking about the larger Youtubers with a big following - some of them have a really massive following, I saw one dude with more than 500,000 people following his channel - he went unusually silent over the last year or so though.