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On 7/15/2020 at 5:44 AM, ArickChaiyaphum said:

Bangkok Bank will refund all purchased flights bought with a Bkk Bank credit card unfortunately the Bank said no airlines have been refunding flights. 

i had a refund from a hotel booking, i then had Nock Air try to reach a mutual settlement which we did, and last but not least Thai Lion Air trying their best to ignore my phone calls ect ect it did take several phone calls over several months but i finally got a person from my C.C bank he said money will be in your account

within a few weeks ...''Charge back'' it sometimes takes a while but has done it for me a few times now. if the airline is in the wrong they just take the money and put it back where it came from. 

On 7/8/2020 at 4:27 PM, steven100 said:

Just go look at places,  if you like somewhere ask how much, offer less .... see what they say,  deposit 1 months rent.  bingo !

actually most deposits are at least two or three months rental ?  i will not bite as this seems like a wind up?

On 7/8/2020 at 4:09 PM, steven100 said:

for what ?

Are there any headaches getting deposits back. ?

not if you leave the place clean and tidy and respect others property.

 

strange post .... 

it does not matter whether you leave it clean and tidy ? in four moves in 16 years i have never had my deposit refunded without a fuss, and that was two Thai and two Farang's i was renting from. 

The last one told me the Curtains would cost 10,000 Baht to get dry cleaned ?

i had been there for five years and the curtains looked fine to me ?

the wife got them done for a few hundred Baht,

The first said the owner was in Bangkok (this manager did not know i had the owners phone number ) never had any ''yeh ok here's your deposit back'' (but on one with the expensive curtain cleaner) a few weeks after signing i noticed many cigarette burns and found the toilet was not 100% (turns out a house brick to block up the toilet) and all the broken floor tiles plus the cigarette burns were message's i should of read ....not strange but the truth..... have you ever rented?   

do not want to complicate things but where do us non imm O (married to Thai) visa holders stand?

i was due to do a 90 day report in May, and read on here they had  been put on hold ? and we do not need to report ? until further notice,

i have since done a TM30 in June but i am thinking of heading to Jomtien in case they decide to make an issue out of this? as they do like to keep us on our toes. any body know where we stand.

4 hours ago, kingdong said:

a bit of a a i,me ,myself post,just because you get treated ok where you go dosen,t mean its set in stone,the poster related an incident that happened to him,i wasn,t there and i assume you wasn,t,however i can say i,ve frequented bars for years behaved myself then had a disagreement with a bolshy ho and the owner took her side,i just walked out and did not return till paradoxically the bar changed hands.

in actual fact the whole basis of this lads post is it was his local/favourite pub which to me means a place i am familar with and people who know me ? if it was about drinking while up in Udon Thani i would be able to talk about getting a ''Micky finn'' and when i realised something was wrong i ran down the road and got into a building, waking up 8 hours later. but money intact.

The bar off soi Buchow that hid the bins under the counter, and i tested it one time by buying one drink and not paying, next morning my bin was 800 bhat, this was run by Farangs we have all had incidences in the early days here ,but hardly any at a place we go to on a regular basis,

and this lad is the only one i have heard who has been told do not come back. 

i reckon even the Micky Finnars would of asked me back so they could try with a stronger dose!!!

oh and if it makes any one feel better i was told ''you only get a micky finn if you have a certain look

about you '' that was after drinking all over for 18 years. so i must of been good at hiding that look???   

9 hours ago, Bob A Kneale said:

It's strange that you claim it's your "favourite pub" and that you are a "regular customer" but you obviously didn't know the staff, or the manager, and, clearly from your report, you weren't familiar to them either. You couldn't have been that much of a "regular paying customer in your favourite pub"!

 

Perhaps she wasn't the only one being reluctant, cocky and arrogant if you, effectively, were barred!

i frequent 4 or five bars on a regular basis ,out of these ,two bars are my favourites ,one is my local

i know the manager/bar staff/owner/owners wife and son/about 15 other people from many countries

who also frequent the bar on a regular basis. The staff and manager/owner allways say hello. (there is no manager at present the owner's wife does that roll), in all the other bars the managers/staff know me and we normaly nod or smile to acknowledge each other there is a quite large turnover of staff at some of these bars, but i cannot remember ever in 18 years being told do not come back.

i have also apart from you i have never heard of any one being told to '' Do One '' after inquiring  about beer prices from a previous visit. i mean if you were out in a strange place but at your local?????

the story does not hold water lad. That is the reason it is 22 pages people are trying to fathom out what is what, it does not add up.                      

32 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

They are advertised in the menu at 140 baht! 

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains." Bill Shankly.

Bill Shankly was barred from Mellwood after he finished working for the red *hite, and i am told

he did go to Bellefeild so why do you post something that is nonsense, and as they say ''if you know your history'' 

it appears you do not know yours.....oh by the way Mellwood was l.pools training ground and Bellefield  was EFC  

Bill Shankly was always more than a great football manager. ... Harder still was that Liverpool became an even more formidable force, and later banned him from their training ground at Melwood, where the newly retired Shankly had tried to rediscover some of the camaraderie that once filled his life.Oct 17, 2009 OBSERVER

i could accept the baht's strength but a few years ago they were firing rocket propelled grenades 

at the airport and it never fazed the Baht. so been going on a good while.

13 minutes ago, off road pat said:

Sorry for those two Russians, and the driver. I guess you are one of the lucky ones. I have read that some, if not most of those drivers have very bad work conditions. Long work hours, not much rest, and the next morning the same again,....every day again and again....No wonder some are taking refuge in alcohol or drug abuse....

a few years later we where in Bangkok to get the freedom to marry paperwork we were outside the M.O.F.A i flagged a taxi down we jumped in and the missus (then girlfriend) started shouting ''get out

get out'' as i grabbed the door i looked at the driver's mirror and as white foam came out of his mouth his eyes rolled back and it was like a horror movie as we scrambled out to the growl of ''YA-BA  YA- BA  from the wife...i only use known or recommended taxi's now and check their eyes asap.

The two Russians and the driver were all killed instantly as the van went off the road and into a building if my memory serves me right. apparently the YA-BA keeps them awake but that lad must of either fell asleep or had a heart attack and when you are flying like they do its usually a real bad one.

they have to work long hours to earn decent money and this being TIT it don't get fixed. 

10 hours ago, off road pat said:

Make that, "all over Thailand",..Also from personal experience !

i had a driver from Pattaya a few years ago his driving was unbelievably bad, he even got pulled by the BiB on the way back, i spoke to the English owner of the van company, i told him i would never use his company again while this driver drove, three weeks later he came to me in a bar and announced ''the driver had committed suicide and killed two Russians at the same time '' 

i realized i had used the words ''he could not of drove any worse even if he was trying to kill himself'' 

it was all over the papers about ten years ago.  

3 hours ago, Pattaya46 said:

It's the rule used by Pattaya Immigration for years. ????

A good one.

(Used at least for those on long extension: retirement, mariage, ...)

actually its not, Jomtien will fine you if they feel like it, i went 14 years without any mention

of a Tm30 , asked to change my visa from retirement as it was best for me, and i hear the IMM O mention a hotel in Udon Thani and all of a sudden TM30 and a fine, they do as they please never mind that i was entitled to change my visa Legally, i did not do what they wanted.

i now have the girl on TM30 desk telling me i do not have to do a TM30 i just filled it in and asked her to file it as it means one less thing they can use against me and the wife.

i will wait until i see all of this in writing and take a copy with me when i visit Jomtien.

funny enough we were talking about the UK yesterday, and of course no *alls Borris came

up a lad was trying to defend him, making excuse after excuse.

Cummings ''driving sixty miles to a beauty spot on, a bank holiday. with the wife and son

on his wife's birthday , only because he wanted to test out his eyes''

was the clincher the lad trying to defend him gave up at this point,

sounded like an immature schoolboy caught with his hand in the till

the Conservative lad pondered why did he not use a better excuse surely he had advisors

who would of made up a better story than that one? why had he used that excuse?

everyone knows its lies...sums up the state of Politics at present i reckon.  

On 6/11/2020 at 1:57 PM, AlfHuy said:

that's a one month rent.

from what i am told the rent is 15k-20k a month and the girls share, most of these girls (or the ones i know, four girls)

have had a Thai Boyfriend and have decided to go down the Farang only road, if a big knob from the Ruling class comes along they will partake but not what they really want, as they say even though they have ''big'' Money they still want a discount, These are young girls who have tried with Thai boyfriends

and now give them the thumbs down, and anyway no decent money earning Thai lad is going to go for a go-go Girl, they are only fun nights out, not wife material. 

7 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Watching the news the other day there was a scoot accident that showed 2 dead uncovered bodies with all sorts of different coloured juices leaking out of them, the person in the background... they blurred out the cigarette he was smoking.

 

Your point is ?

read the post.....you may get some clues 

19 hours ago, Kadilo said:

You “have seen “. ........or they have told you?

Well what proof do you want on video call on Phone waving the money( this was 25k from one punter for a few days)

Doing likewise with bankbook and laughing like a Thai lottery win, no need to make things up all before

the Covid of course, and they will not loose any face by making things up. they do not have to.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

5k-10k is closer to what your Farang punter pays

On what planet?

on planet proper Establishment in Bangkok with proper birds not some dingy Pattaya ****hole

go-go's in Pattaya have been quoting 2k-4k including bar fine   

birds in your local beer bar have been asking 1k-1.5k + for about three years 

i have seen girls banking 200 k in two months before this Covid-19 broke

these young ladies are buying land and investing their money the last thing they want

is a Thai boyfriend.

3 hours ago, daphnia88 said:

There are still waitresses.... Maids.... Nannies..... they can get a job fairly quickly if they want to. It just won't be a quick 2k made within 4 hours.... Which then proves my point. Money wins over everything else. 

from what i have seen and been told the vast majority do not have Thai boyfriends, why would they?

the place were they work has security, and in general i have not heard of much trouble.

they also earn more than 2k a pop (in Bangkok they get some customers who have lots of influence in Thailand, and lots of money, but they tend to pay less than your average punter) 5k-10k is closer to what your Farang punter pays and these girls will have a few regulars who send money each month. 

right now everything is shut so they are just waiting in their rooms, there are a few online services currently asking for ladies as they say its the new way....but time will tell and i can not see it closing completely. 

12 hours ago, ripstanley said:

Thailand's health minister ignores social distancing so why not the plebs.

 

https://sawadeesiam.com/coronavirus-covid-19/thai-health-minister-ignores-social-distancing-as-he-dines-with-10-friends/

one of the top men in the UK and advising balll*ss Borris does not follow any rules, 

and the other week drove 60 miles to test his eyesight and then tested how thick the

people of the UK are the next week by repeating  this childlike excuse, a bit of non social

distancing is nothing ...did this health minister say it was all mirrors or he was testing the 

other peoples responses ? obviously would be out of his depth in the UK.

16 hours ago, john terry1001 said:

I made a point of going to Immigration about three days before I made my application to ask for a list of required documents and confirm there were no recent changes. They gave me a printout in Thai (my daughter and her university lecturer translated it and as she's studying/teaching Thai Law at Uni I knew the translation would be accurate).

As a timeline over an eight day period:

day one - made application at Si Racha (thirty days before my extension expired so I had thirty days to correct any anomalies/problems.

day two - after the initial rejection I phoned the 1178 hotline to clarify a few points.

day three - went to Jomtien Immigration.

day four - returned to Si Racha Immigration with a Thai friend as an added interpreter. 

 

I did my extension just after you, in February. I thought at first Si Racha were just trying to 'persuade' people to take out the easier retirement extension and add to their tea fund at the same time, but your 'nit picking' problems seem remarkably similar to mine and around the same time. This would have also been during the period when we came under the new income option changes for the first time. I wonder whether these problems we encountered could have been instructions by Chonburi Immigration (both offices) to ensure every 'i' was dotted and 't' crossed to prevent loopholes, bearing in mind a lot of people were also complicating things by trying to change to a marriage extension to get round the new medical insurance requirements that had been introduced. It certainly crossed my mind that these two issues could be the real cause of our problem.

 

I do agree that taking a Thai friend along is a good idea.I introduced mine as my interpreter to the IO at Si Racha.

 i have had a look at the new medical insurance and contacted one of the companies. i am 69 years old i have had lung cancer (had surgery) i have four crushed vertebra in my Back/neck i have various breaks/tears/dislocations mainly through sport, and a few other things that i would have to declare.

but they wanted 80k for the first year and 140k when i am 70 in less than a year, the previous conditions would make any insurance a complete waste of money as they would never be accepted and when i spoke to someone who had been in that business, the term burning money was used.        

i found immigration had issues with the photos after three days in the Jomtien office

(they had tried to find fault with everything else)

we had to go back to our condo and get a thai friend to redo the photos and then a short

trip to the Kodak shop for some glossy new pictures that shut another door in our Quest

to get a legit  ''married to Thai Visa''.

yesterday i went to immigration for my TM30 Report after five mins the young lady asked

why was i doing a TM30 report as it was not required, as i had not left Thailand.

i told her that last January i was fined while applying for a ''married to Thai visa'' because

i had not reported the same trip, and i was not going to give them any more reason to try

and intimidate me and my wife, so if you are on the same extension be aware.