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1 hour ago, norbra said:

I would suggest he is traveling one way with a re-entry permit

Never had a retirement visa so never had a re-entry permit. Visa exempt entries only

7 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Your general advice is often poor. 

Yep, never required an onward flight since 2008, lucky me as I must be the only person getting away with having only a one way flight every time I come to Thailand

12 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Good reason you are on ignore.

 

I can guarantee that example flight from Saigon to Bangkok WILL require an onward flight if flying without visa or reentry permit..

Obviously not on ignore or how did you reply?

Standard response from DrJack, always pay for onward flight, always carry 20,000 baht, always use agent for 12 month extensions as we are obviously too stupid to be able to do it ourself 

8 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Do you/they have rooms for rent ????????????? 

Maybe you should think of Saudi, Iraq or Iran, more in line with your no bar or red light area beliefs?

1 hour ago, PJ71 said:

I know 3 guys that have made at least 5 or 6 entries this year the same way, no questions.

Yeah the so called automatic red flag for airport arrivals is a myth. I've spent 8 months in Thailand this year without a "proper visa"  and have 3-4 visa exempt entries a year since 2015 without any questions from IO 

10 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

You mention common visit for your wife 

For most farang a visa exempt flight from nearby countries would require an onward (return ) flight.

What is your wife experience in this regard.

With Indonesian pp I'm assume this is not required. 

 

Are you hoping to find another person who gets asked for an onward flight instead of it always being just you ???? 

Not restricted to tourists. I was walking along Pattaya Beach in January before all the tourists came back. The floods had created some beach erosion banks and a Thai guy was deleted behind one of them looking at girls on beach road.

I wish he remembered to look behind him so I didn't have to see that...

On 12/27/2022 at 5:43 PM, Mickeymaus said:

Central Pattaya has turned into one big red light district in recent years. I live in Central Pattaya and maybe I didn't realize that so much before. There were not many bars in my area. 

What do you consider to be Central Pattaya? I live in Central Pattaya since 2008 and it's always been a red light district within walking distance of my condo lol

Ask Nams, nice cars, safe drivers as only ladies (who I think drive better). 1200 from Swampy, not sure how much from other airport but sure it will be competitive 

https://www.namstaxipattaya.com/contact

30 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

Yep.  A million dollar net worth nowadays is basically broke.  Especially with inflation in the 7-10 percent range for at least the next 5 years and near zero returns on stocks and bank accounts.

Obviously you don't have a million nett worth. That should get you over $40,000 per year in a standard saving account which is about 120,000 baht per month to live in Thailand.  More than enough to live very well in Thailand and definitely not broke 

18 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

You appear just to want to argue but making  points I already spoke of... I will humour you a little.

Firstly don't be sorry... we were discussing what an agency Extension required relative to going to immigration and doing it yourself...

The instruction was, bring a passport photo if you have one, the shop is quite capable of producing one.. I keep a few with my passport... so that photo to go with the application I supplied. . They do take a pic in the shop anyhow, which means there is no need to go to immigration later  I told you I did not fill out a TM7... did you miss that!? Nor did I read one. I saved more than a minute, I didn't even have a blank one! Read this again, perhaps twice.

 

 

 

Thank for confirming an agent submission is illegal as they don't care about the immigration rules

Me, I prefer to follow the rules and retirement visa is easy for 1900 baht, 2 hours in immigration is an acceptable downside when I have so much free time

Lol that people thinking how to vegetable shop in Pattaya markets is the most important topic...how I miss the 2000's lol

No need to cool off. Renting less than 30 days is illegal in Thailand

Isn't promoting illegal activities also illegal on asean now so therefore OP stating he doesn't care about illegal requirements also breach that requirement ?

OP maybe you should pay a Thai 500 baht to buy veggies at the Thai price in the markets just to save the 500 baht extra at Big C...

oh wait...

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I happened to have a passport photo and they took it, but it was not a requirement. I did not have to fill in  the TM7...

Sorry but since the TM7 form requires a passport photo to be attached I don't see how a photo could ever not be required, plus surely you had to read and sign the TM7 they filled out for you, rather than didn't have to do a TM7

(probably saved one minute by not filling out TM7 yourself before signing, how hard is it write your name, date of birth, passport number and address of stay lol)

3 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

If this was my ship I think I would try and turn it into a gamboling party ship..

I think this would be waaaaaaaaaay more successful than the trip to Koh Samui......

 

Even the Pattaya to Hua Hin run I think would be better..

You should get with Leaver, the self proclaimed best Pattaya businessman never to have any skin in the game, so therefore has never failed. I'm sure he could make your idea a sure winner ????

Meanwhile in realty, hope the latest engine fixes are the last of ongoing issues and this gets off and running successfully soon

21 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yes sounds like my experience.... stopped off at the bank and got the letter and update on the book.....straight to the agent and they copied the bankbook, took a photo, I gave them the bank letter and a photo I happened to have, paid the fee, and that was it.....oh they wanted my phone number as they called me the following afterso noon to say passport ready for collection. Easy 

The post you replied to says drop passport and pay only, but you went to bank and got the required letter and passbook copies and you went and got a passport photo.  Was there no need to provide proof of residence or did you also give chanote or lease agreement to agent? (If not required by agent than likely not required by IO either as on 90 day reports)

Still dont know what agent does but fill in a form (that takes less than a minute) and photocopy some documents (5 baht per page elsewhere). Why not just give same documents to immigration and save 15000 baht for a 12 month extension?

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yes sounds like my experience.... stopped off at the bank and got the letter and update on the book.....straight to the agent and they copied the bankbook, took a photo, I gave them the bank letter and a photo I happened to have, paid the fee, and that was it.....oh they wanted my phone number as they called me the following afternoon to say passport ready for collection. Easy 

In Pattaya?

17 minutes ago, Onerak said:

I don't know what agent you are talking about. 

Don't want a Thai defamation suit coming my way but very popular agent who is reccomended often  on this forum as the go to agent in Pattaya (so I assume sets the standard of usual practice)

13 hours ago, parafareno said:

she is probably lying....ah <deleted> her....good enough sign to keep away....she said lets stay in hotel in sri racha and i should keep her warm and at the same time rarely responds to my messages in line....

 

i am not used to crawl around the girl...she should do that around me or she gets a 

All this time since OP and you still haven't visited the 10/10 girl that will stay at hotel and sleep with you first time you meet up in Sri Racha, if only it wasn't so difficult to do the 30 minute drive...how naive do you have to be lol

12 hours ago, Onerak said:

Wrong. Only fools spend their retirement years printing bank books, going to banks for bank letter, filling up forms, asking moronic question in this forum about document requirements, making copies and taking pics running around in scorching heat, waiting in immigration lines for hours and kowtowing to IOs if they demand something else and repeat the process, and then keep their 800K tied up in a low interest paying banks and all these for claiming their biggest achievement in life of getting a retirement visa. OMG, what a scene these old proud retirees printing their bank books every month in front  of bank machines.

You make it sound like you just drop off your passport, pay the money and done.

This is what I don't get as my Mate just did his first time 15 month non imm o and 12 month extension package for 25,000 baht through a popular agent.

Thing is, he already had a bank account with 800k baht in it. So he had to provide agent with his passport, copies of his condo chanote, get a passport pic, copy of his TM30, go to the bank to get letter, go to immigration to get photo in front of building.

So what has he saved by using an agent instead of doing it himself? Maybe 2 hours in a queue in Jomtien immigration. Not worth the 25,000 baht for me when retired with plenty of time on my hands (plus agent took 4 weeks and had his passport whole time)

Note: he had the 800k baht in his account for 2 days when he applied at agent (which meets non-imm O requirement), agent gave him a letter to give to bank, and bank letter than confirmed 800k was in bank for 3 months, even though it wasn't. I can't see anyway that is not fraud (and why do when his 800k met imm requirements)

47 minutes ago, Skallywag said:

There are cheap cargo shorts at the Pattaya night bizarre across from Central Festival/View Talay 6, second road.  Also Mikes shopping mall seaside and even the old Mikes near Walking street entrance.  

Unfortunately they're all made for 6"6 tall and go way past the knee for anyone 5"10'

1 minute ago, MJCM said:

Question?

 

Spam emails from their Email address or from other companies?

 

If from their Email address did it have an Unsubscribe button on it on the Bottom?

 

 

Spam emails were from everywhere and rotated daily so same message different email.

Could be coincidence but never had a problem before as don't normally give out email address. For AA I had to or would not get quote. Email Spam started straight after I declined AA insurance they quoted me.

Don't mean to defame them but had never given email before or after Spam attack

4 minutes ago, MJCM said:

I have several insurances through AA Insurances Brokers and never any Spam emails and I use an original email address for them via (https://simplelogin.io) maybe something you should try to see really where those emails originate from.

 

I Only received a News Letter from them recently, which I unsubscribed by sending them an email.

As I said, I only received the spam emails after I declined their quote whereas you are a customer so I wouldn't expect you to get them.

21 minutes ago, MJCM said:

AA Insurance Brokers

 

Not an insurance but a broker and they do have an office in Pattaya

 

https://goo.gl/maps/Gh3XNygsyTjSF7BX9

 

Link: https://www.aainsure.net/

I clicked on AA insurance brokers once after recommendation on this forum, had to give email, then had over 30 spam emails per day when I declined insurance

Now down to about 5 spam emails per day after reporting and blocking emails for 4 months

Maybe coincidence but I don't think so....