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5 hours ago, Kadilo said:

“We said goodbye to our last international customer at the beginning of April and since then, we have had almost no income… The new Special Tourists Visa was and is completely useless, the new 60-day visa will only help to a very limited extent. As long as there is still a quarantine and a lot of bureaucracy to be done, the tourists will not return.”
 

Spot on. 
 

This will be only the start of the lay offs and many won’t be temporary. 

Agree  - same here if they do not simplify the process nobody will come. Quarantine is necessary yes but the rest should be as simply and straight forward as possible. But they have fooled around for too long now and this years “high season” is not going to happen which will be devastating for the tourism industry. They can forget regular tourists. No tourist will go through this process and into quarantine spending their short holiday mostly in quarantine. The worst is the government’s flip flopping for months and total absence of a plan they have lost the long stay tourists now who usually spend the winter here. Losing us all our regular long stay guests- who are mostly retirees-they say they understand the need for the quarantine but can’t be bothered with the rest- all the red tape, conflicting and constantly changing information from Thai consulates and arrogance at embassies - leaving us without income after having invested millions over the last few years. Our last international guests left in April - no bookings since then. The biggest resort / retreat in the area which was busy all year round has closed down 4 months ago and laid off 160 employees - a devastating blow to many families and other small businesses in the surrounding villages.   

1 hour ago, Mama Noodle said:

When everything is said and done these kids, if it’s their first non-violent offense, they probably gonna get a very firm wrist slap and as long as they keep their nose clean after, they should be ok. 

Na - they need to be made an example of and go to prison for years. What they did Is criminal. With the world turning more and more digital /crypto/ blockchain / fintech / DeFi the cost for security because of these criminals is staggering. The damage they can cause is enormous if somebody robs a house, store or a bank or an online account / wallet -a crime is a crime. It will get worse and worse if there is no strong deterrent -the use of digital assets/contracts  will grow enormously in the near future  and it needs to be secure from these a..holes. The world is watching China rolling out its government crypto currency on a big scale as we speak. Using digital assets going cash less will be an enormous challenge especially for the older generation they will be most vulnerable to these hacker-gangsters who think robbing other people of their hard earned assets is cool. 

While I do not want to defend Triumph - it is the government and Thailand’s weak labor laws which allow such action. 

Meanwhile in Dubai - Thaksin takes a sip from his glass of champagne spreads a bit more caviar on his blini while laughing out loud reading this news article. Now compare this court decision to the one the powerful crooks behind the scenes arranged for him in his assets declaration case whereby “accidentally” billions where held by the maid and gardeners. 

The Thai judiciary is nothing but a cheap corrupt tool for the crooks running things from behind the scene.

Why would anybody go to the beach there? Last time I swam in the filthy water in Jomtien I caught a skin disease! 

This has nothing really to do with a “crypto currency” this is the Orwellian attempt of an authoritarian regime - just like the Chinese CCP -attempting to gain total control over their citizens by abandoning cash and gain total control over their financial assets. The original idea of a crypto currency was exactly the opposite!   

Is Thailand introducing communist style price controls with a fascist government now ? Last time I checked we had a free market economy!?

On 6/20/2020 at 11:11 AM, Bill97 said:

 Oh it has a lot to do with the original. 

Not really - it’s a cheap replica as you can find in the attached article. In fact many Chiang Mai people firmly believe that the governor who authorized the demolition of the original had to die in the Lauda Air Crash because he provoked and upset the spirits guarding the city. 

http://bytelife.altervista.org/history.htm

2 hours ago, alien365 said:

My wife's license has expired and she now needs to redo all the test (so it's a one or two day process) Over a year now and she's been unable to get a booking in or around our province. And they wonder why people drive without a license.

Yes it’s a total mess. Both my licenses - motorbike and car have expired and there is no way you can get into the online cue. The application will not accept your passport number which is also printed on your driving license - the online application accepts only the 13 digit Thai ID card numbers.

Anybody in Chiang Mai who is trading in the SET?

Would love to meet somebody who does- to discuss and get some info of a well versed investor.

Great opportunities to invest coming up for sure once we hit bottom. 

Why would that still be necessary ? Haven’t they announced a few days ago with great fanfare that Thai doctors have miraculously found the cure for the virus and patients where cured within 48 hours? They don’t even believe that BS themselves don’t they?

A condo I lived in recently refused to give back my deposit, reason being that he didn't have the money to pay me back
 
I wanted to write a bad review on google but my partner said I can't. Will I end up in the monkey house or face deportation for doing so? 

Use a fake name, post through a VPN to hide your IP address, and don't give an specifics that would link the review to you. Then give them both barrels. But seriously, in Thailand even if what you say is 100% true it can still be defamation, especially when a farang is saying it. But if they can't trace you I'm not sure what can happen to you, almost certainly nothing.

A genuin complaint is a complaint - go to the community tap of the Power Buy Facebook page for example and tell me if you find any positive comments at all.

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You have missed the 427 threads about people being refused 90 day reports and extensions until a TM30 is done.
 
If immigration were happily giving extensions and doing 90 day reports, and never asking for a TM30, there would be no TM30 issue.

But immigration will refuse his extension if he doesnt have one, it soon becomes his problem.

Why would you need a TM30 for a 90 day report?
I have done my last 5 - 90 day reports online and it took me about 5 minutes and of course they can not ask you for a TM30 online.
I only see immigration once a year to have my picture taken when I extend my retirement visa for another year and have an agent take care of it - or if I return from abroad to update my TM30 which takes about 10 minutes.
Looks like this TE program I was looking at a few years back is nothing but lots of promises and a waste of money?


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Maybe I wrote in a confusing way........... I did not use an agent for the extension or in my many attempts at a  fix.  The original Retirement VIsa was via an agent and was not an issue.  Forgetting to renew the re-entry stamp was.   For the fix, I did finally use an agent as no other alternative was available given the nature of my lease and from what I was told and observed, the agent business is alive and well.

Huh?? You rendered your retirement extension void by leaving / returning without a valid re-entry permit - that’s the way it is.

All you needed to do is start the process of a new extension based on retirement by turning your 30 day entry stamp into a non immigrant stamp at the local immigration office by starting the application for the retirement extension all over again.

And what has you renting from a Chinese guy and the TM30 got to do with you loosing your retirement extension? If the owner lives in China the agent who rents the condo to you has to file the TM30 for you.

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