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You would think that supercar owners have access to additional insurance that covers them for accidents regardless of who's fault it is. Because they know for sure that the average driver is going to have a very low payout insurance policy throughout the entire country. This woman should have phoned her insurance company and left it to them, they will then negotiate with the responsible parties insurance company and if it's deemed necessary they will cover any and all damage and then go into recovery mode where they file lawsuits for any costs they can't recover - or write it off which I suspect is what happens. There's no way she's going to be left with a broken car and out of pocket.

You email them, it's the same procedure as when you first apply for a TE membership outside of the country. Once they know your flight number they meet you at the gate and take you to a special immigration waiting area next to the place where airline crew have to sign some kind of register before they pass through immigration - they insert your visa and you then proceed through one of the fast track / flight crew lanes which is right next to it. I did this for the insertion of my second visa, I left the country and came back, getting the new TE visa inserted on arrival - one of the few times I've left the country in many years.

It's a great option for those under 50 who want to live in Thailand. I've been using it for years. No real problems. My one gripe is that you need to go to Bangkok to get a new visa inserted when they expire as the maximum visa length is either your passport expiry date or 5 years, whichever is shorter. So for a 20 year visa that's 4 trips to Bangkok unless you take a trip abroad where you can get it inserted on re-entry but that would require the trip to coincide with your visa expiry. Personally I don't travel much, I think I've left the country twice in the last 8 or 9 years.

Well that escalated quickly, how much third party insurance cover does he have? I often wondered what would happen if I was to accidentally write off one of those supercars with normal first class insurance on my run of the mill Toyota and the accident was my fault.

Interesting, I don't have this same upgrade clause (they changed it) as I purchased my 5 year membership a few years back, the Elite Superiority Extension did not exist back then. So instead my clause 5.3 says this and offers the upgrade only to the 2 million baht membership : This is from a time before the 20 year superiority extension existed for just 1 million baht, I suspect they will offer the same to all Easy Access members but will need to confirm this with them. I'm not interested in upgrading to the 1.5 million Baht option but I will go for the 500k option if it's available until September, otherwise I won't bother upgrading at all and will allow it to lapse. Interestingly it doesn't mention anything like I have read before about renewing before the last 3 months or before the last year of membership which is another one I heard of. I'll email them at some point soon I guess.

Yes, I got it via email too. It's worth reading this bit again : It does specifically mention that old OR new membership types can be used when upgrading but I wonder if that was their intent to still be issuing the old style 20 year 'Superiority Extension' in several years from now, perhaps it is. Maybe someone should confirm this with them. Previously when reading an email from them I had understood that renewals of existing memberships would resume January 2024 well after the new memberships have launched and it would only be to the new memberships. I wonder what happened there today for this to be the end result. It's quite a change.

I expected them to backpedal when the new program failed but not before it even launched. Amazing.

The judge will have seen all of the CCTV yet decided not to issue a warrant. If he picked her up and dangled her over the balcony then it would be visible in the video. Obviously this is not the case.

It will be interesting to see if those who rushed to 'upgrade' their 5 year memberships were all processed in a timely manner before the deadline which is Tuesday (today). I also find it a little odd that now the Thailand Elite memberships appear to be thriving that there's a new management team - did they fire the management who were in charge of making it successful? The first thing the new 'management team' go on to do is take the successful membership packages which are selling quite well and CANCEL every single one of them to be replaced with something that's yet to be determined. It's very odd

Picture a woman standing on a balcony, about to jump, the guy grabs her by the legs and manages to hold on for as long as he can before she falls...... That CCTV might reveal the moments leading up to the 'fall' or it's worthless in any normal country. Of course we're in Thailand though so it's up to the judges controllers.

Yes, and I've done it many times, not once was a utility bill required as well as some other superior form of address like a bank statement.

Ever get the feeling that they simply don't want to have anything to do with you? It's odd behaviour from a financial company.

Being unmarried, aged under 50 and not working in Thailand You get a hassle free long term visa with 1 year entry stamps and some largely irrelevant 'window dressing' 'benefits' and never need to leave the country if you don't want to.

Pathetic. No wonder they don't want to come - if it's 6 now I wonder what it was before. Also as I like to point out - don't forget that there's a special list of countries kept by the Chinese government where ordinary people aren't allowed or are discouraged to travel to unless they're on a tour - and Thailand is on that list.

Is he dead or not, wasn't clear?

I know plenty of people who've had covid recently, myself included, not sure which version but it's definitely been doing the rounds over the last few months.

What's the difference between a 'fake' amulet and a 'real' one and how can you tell?

It is a giant red flag if they require a bank account balance that's higher than the government insured amount.

So we're talking about tax avoidance vs tax evasion, one is a crime, the other isn't. The rest of the world doesn't have a problem with this, if they do - they change the law. It's a non issue

I'm sure they will. They will destroy themselves with greed if given even half a chance.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they have already ceased processing new applications or renewals. All they need to do is slow walk them through the next 11 days and that's the end of it until it relaunches.

If the tax was paid then usually nobody cares who actually paid it. I also heard that if the tax isn't paid then the land doesn't change ownership so this smells like a load of bull<deleted> to me. Someone in charge of something doesn't like this PM candidate either.

I looked back in my email and I also received one. It did confirm that there will be no more 'upgrades' from 15th August and when the new packages are announced new upgrades will resume in 2024. It really sounds like they've done this in such a way that there's not enough time for people to find out and upgrade - they don't want people to upgrade. I'm over 50 now, do I really need TE? The answer to that is a resounding 'No' - I use it because it's cheap and convenient - if it stops being either of those two then I'm done with it. Still, I've got about 2 years of membership left so plenty of time. I will not be scrambling to upgrade my existing membership by their last minute deadline.

Why use a middle man when you can do it all over the phone with the official company. I would never use an agent for this when it's so easy to apply directly.

Mere rumour at this stage.