oldgeezer

I don't know of a major item sold in Thailand that is not at least twice the price of U.S/UK. Power Buy and Home Pro are price competitive. Verasu is good but very expensive. Small chinese made appliances are crap and twice the price.

If you find somewhere in Thailand you can buy a Toyota Hybrid for less than $60,000 please let me know. The same car in the U.S. is $29,000. Just examples and a bit of a rant from one who is having similar problems.

Afraid you are out of luck. Your best bet is to buy quality and get good warranties.

A four turn grinner is used for tying 2 lines of different sizes together. The proper knot for your application is the 5 turn grinner.

Thursday, August 12, 2010, 2:33 PM.

When is the winner announced?

Watersedge:

Thanks so much for the good work and words. I am retired and not in shape to market potatoes here in LOS, but would certainly buy many for home use. If you decide to try growing, let me know and I will buy 25 lbs at a time if they keep ok.

Thanks again, much appreciate everybodys comments.

I live out close to the airport so dont get to Suk often any more. If you find at Villa 33 please post. Then I'll have an excuse to have my wife drive into town.

Thanks much for all of the guys info.

Some web research: Russet (chip) potatoes were shipped to LOS for evaluating use in local making of Potato chips (crisps) and did well. Import should start soon. Hope some spill over into the retail markets.

If not, I'll just have to put out some tea money to a factory manager.

Why not just report in on time ,its not rocket science to know when you have to do a 90 day report.its even stamped on the slip.

Thank you for the simplistic answer. Some of us have better thing to do than look at our Passports every day to see when we have to report again.

Cheers.

SIMPLY have your email calendar send you a reminder a few days before report day. That works pretty well for those who have only a 24 hour memory.

Foodland, Villa Market and Top foods all have the dry yeast in the small bottles. Hold up well and I've used many times.

I should add "at one time or another". Never failed to find it at one or more.

Lets revisit this issue. Does anyone know of Russet potatos being grown here? I'm tired of buying frozen french fries and cutting them up for hash browns.

Be aware that you need both anti-virus and anti-malware. They are not the same, although you can often get them in one package. I use Sunbelt software's "Vipre" and have NEVER had an invasion of either a virus or malware. I catches some from time to time and puts them in "quarantine", which you can review and delete.

take it to a computer shop and let them fix it for you, watch them repair it, ask questions which would enable you to do it yourself next time, either that or sit next to somebody who knows what they're doing and observe till you're comfortable with it.

Kindle is reported to be the most readable device and service. Be careful before purchase and confirm they will download ebooks to Thailand. I suspect they will not.

I tried to read from a kindle and found it difficult. Not difficult to use, but it's not the same as reading a book.

I buy all my games (all legit) at Zest or I27 CD-Rom.

http://www.i27games.com/

https://www.zest.co.th/

http://www.yesasia.com/global/en/pc-games.html

I (as in eye)27 is in MBK and Zest is pantip and fortune tower I believe. Yesasia is online only it seems.

Good luck

BTS: go to a station and look at the signs. It is very idiot-proof, however, that may not be necessarily true in your case.

Buses: Get on and pay your fare. No need to ever get off.

Refrigerator: the only way to get a refrigerator home is to carry it on your back. No company will ever deliver a refrigerator for you, anywhere in the world.

Above is BS.

Buy a smartpass and insert the card. Ride where you want and insert the card when you leave. Fare will be deducted automatically. Easy to ride and station postings and announcements are clear. Be prepared to walk up about 40 feet of stairs at many stations. Excalators are scarce.

Busses: I don't know. Looks to me like the biggest problem is routes and bus numbers. Very cheap and probably worth trying.

Refrigerators: Any large appliance company will deliver. I have bought a very large reefer from power buy, delivered to suburbs. Smaller reefer from home pro, delivered. Furnished an entire house and everything was delivered, set up and verified working. Even bought a large cabinet, which was delivered, assembled at my house and moved to location. Might have to wait 2-3 days but never paid a penny extra for delivery.

Unless you live within easy walking distance of a BTS station, and if more than one travelling, a taxi is cheaper.

Happy traveling.

Your question is a reasonable one. And the answer is: NOONE should buy either a business or personal property unless it was intended to be passed on to heirs. Maintenance and upkeep costs in addition to lease dictate the wise do not consider buying either a home or a business property. The days of buying as an investment to build equity are over. And this is true in most other countries also.

I lease a beautiful home in an upscale neighborhood for a bit more than 1/300th of the sale price. And I have no maintenance costs except the yard and grounds. AND most importantly I have the flexibility to move if the notion strikes me.

If you are a newcomer here, I assume you are not a thai citizen. In that case you most certainly do not have a residency permit. I am no expert, but my understanding is you cannot own a business outright without thai partners, and your present work permit is of no use in your own business.

I trust those more familiar with business here will ring in on this one.

Anyone know where I can find Prinivil/ Lisinopril BP medication? Do you know the generic name for this in Thailand? Can't find it in the Bangna area Bangkok.

Thanks

I buy mine at Mr. Medicine on SriNakharin. South of Bangna trad on west side of road across from Carrefour.

It's a record all right. But don't tell your friends.

Postman should have left a note. Pick up at local post office and bring ID. I often have usps deliveries and if small, they will deliver.

Or 24 bottles of grape juice.

Be sure and ask your bank how long they hold the check until funds are available. My bank takes up to 35 days.

I live in Pattaya, but the procedure is the same throughout Thailand.

Periodically (about once a year), the SSA will send you a form to complete, advising them of your current address or changes to you living/working status to determine your eligibility for SSA. This form needs to be promptly mailed to the SSA in Philadelphia. Usually they will make two attempts of mailing the form. If they don't receive the form, your SS will be suspended (without notice) and it takes several months to get it unsuspended. So you need to have your correct current residential address on file with them in order to receive the form or any other notifications that they may send.

A couple of times, the form never arrived, and my SS was suspended. Now, if I don't get a form at the normal time each year when a form usually arrives, I immediately contact the US Embassy ACS section in Bangkok, by phone or email. Either has worked in the past, but sometimes they need to see your passport to verify it's you.

You can also do this at any of the Outreach Visits to Phuket, Hua Hin, Pattaya, Korat, Khon Khen, Udorn and Udom. You also need to register with the US Embassy to receive Outreach notifications. This easily be done on-line and can be done in the US. You can also go to the US Embassy ACS unit in Bangkok or the Consulate in Chang Mai.They in turn will get in contact with the SSA in Manila. I usually receive a form in the mail within a couple months after contacting an US Embassy or Consulate staff.

I've heard in some cases, the SSA may want to do an evaluation if you are eligible because of a disability. Usually they give you instructions where and how to do the evaluation when you are in Thailand. This only occasionally occurs for recipients who are under the age of 60. Recipients over 64 don't go through evaluations.

Also since my funds are 'Direct Deposit' through Bangkok Bank, a couple of times when I went to withdraw funds, the Embassy/SSA required the local branch staff to provide them with a copy of my passport certified by the bank staff (a surprise to both me and the bank staff). This occurred just before my passport was due to expire. Shortly thereafter, an unscheduled form showed up in the mail.

Since you are presently in the US, you could use the SSA website to inform them of your current residential address. However you need to be in the US long enough to receive the login information in the mail, if you don't have an on-line account. It will be sent to your current address with the SSA. It also won't be sent outside the US, so you can't inform them of your current residential address on line, if your current residential address with the SSA is in Thailand. You can't use the website outside of the USA either. The IP addresses outside the US are blocked from logging on to your account.

You call also call the SSA from their toll free number in the US (I've never had any luck getting through, it's always busy), or go to a local SSA office in the US (I found that to be the easiest method). You can use the SSA website to locate your local SSA office or look in the phone book under Social Security Administration, usually in the US Government section.

There is a form that you can download from the SSA website and mail to the Philippines to notify them of your current residential address, but you need a certified copy of your passport from a US Consular in Thailand to accompany it. The US Consular provides certified copies for the SSA at no charge to you. But I found that often times, the SSA office in the Philippines do not process documents in a timely manner. I've also never had any response to my email inquiry's to the Philippines.

The SSA prefers all forms and requests from overseas to be made by mail, in your own handwriting. Usually to the Maryland office (if I recall from memory). The information is on their website. Also the contact information for Manila office except for the email address is on the SSA website. The US Embassy ACS Unit in Bangkok has given me the email address, but as I said before, I never received a response from Manila.

Because the mail service from Thailand is so unreliable, I always send all correspondence to the SSA via Registered Air Mail. Even then I still have had problems with lost items in the mail to the SSA.

One last thing. Since Medicare is not available in Thailand. You need to terminate it and have the deduction stopped. It's a waste of money if you live in Thailand. You can do that in the US or in Thailand with any US Consular or send the form with a certified copy of you passport from a US Consular to the SSA. I've found that since you have to see a US Consular in either case, it's just easier to have them submit the form to the SSA.

If you are considering terminating your medicare, be aware that there is a penalty period for reactiviation as well as an upcharge to the current policy rate. This means you can receive no benefits in the event you return to the states for care until the penalty period is over. Check with SS for the latest on this. I keep mine as insurance against this and my policy will remain at the lowest figure of $92 a month.

I purchased a 4 port wifi D-Link router/modem to replace the True supplied 1 port wifi one and had no end of troubles trying to get it set up, It would setup and connect ok, then 10 minutes later it would randomly reboot and then no connection... full reset and re setup required, drove me nuts even after I updated the firmware it was still the same, I had the true technician come out several times and couldn't sort it either.

I then went and purchased one they recommended ( I need 4 ethernet ports + WiFi) it is a ZyxZel P660HN, it setup flawlessly in a few minutes and has been online ever since (bout 4 months now).

I had EXACTLY the same experience. Tried to use the D-Link wireless router I had but finally ended up buying the True Zytel and everything worked fine. Part of my problem was complete ignorance of all of the setup lingo.

Nod32 is an anti virus program. Smart Security has that and anti-spam and a firewall.

My wife's scalloped potatoes. With onions, ham, topped with bacon.