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BTW some people miss the point, Elite was never meant to be a mass market program with a million people walking around with an elite visa. Their ideal scenario is around 10 000 applicants per year paying as much as the market dictates 10 000 people are willing to pay. Keeping it exclusive and making it profitable.

True, so maybe it is selling? 2022 they had 5000 new applications but that was almost exclusively in a six month period when Covid restrictions eased. So far in 2023 they've had 10 000 applications (50% of the cumulative amount of holders since 2014) and expect well over 20 000, doubling the amount of holders in one year. One visit at the Elite offices would show you it is exploding, when I first got my visa in 2016, and for years, it was always empty, they knew me by name, now there is queues of people there and sitting in every seat filling applications

American swindles, manages to make it about Thailand on the very first reply TV never disappoints

Err.. no. I had covid here and was given the breakdown of all the costs at the start.

Yes yes clearly a "Thai man" thing no such thing could ever happen in other countries like the UK...???? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9962343/Mass-acid-attack-Cardiff-Victims-pour-milk-soothe-injuries.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9605107/Woman-suffers-injuries-face-acid-attack.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9784407/Child-ten-three-victims-acid-attack-North-London.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9250673/Reward-5-000-offered-hunt-man-blinded-teenager-19-unprovoked-acid-attack.html THose are just the first links that came up, there is plenty more. But have your little cry petal btw if you hate them so much but you are still here surrounded by them because you have nowhere better to go, what does that say about you and your own country? think about it for a minute --------

Weird how we are there almost every night, never had our bills padded, half of Pattaya goes to Tree Town every night at the moment never heard of anyone even disputing a bill, it is generating big cash as one of the few places open during the restrictions but the aggressive drunk Irish guy on St Paddy's they scammed so they could make a couple hundred baht?

You forgot what everybody that has been here long enough has seen countless times - Obnoxious drunk farang refuses to pay bill, walks away without paying, starts fighting with people trying to stop him, carries on when security arrives, gets a slap. Plays the victim

American company PayPal is doing the U-Turn stop using every single opportunity to have your obligatory little "Thailand waahh waahhh" cry

Agreed. I have a UV system you still need residual Chlorine as bacteria doesnt get destroyed until it goes through the lamp and in some parts of the pool might be hours while bateria from the swimmers who just jumped in the pool also not destroyed until hours later . It is also suppose to destroy Algae but with the heat here I found it impossible to control algae with UV alone . Now I just leave it on as a secondary system to have very clean water but keep levels of chlorine as I would without -----------