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Please provide a source for your assertion as per forum rules. Thanks!

And a few hundred billion Thai Baht in business development is wiped out - just like that! "Happiness To The People."

Because some people continue to be completely obsessed when it comes to Covid and as such, they can only focus on Covid at the exclusion of every other cause of sickness and death. What do they ignore? Everything else that can cause fatalities and "dis-ease" in the human population. So when rational people begin to get tired of the constant hype - then they go for - "Think About The Children Dying Of Covid." Yeah - it really is disingenuous. In comparison, think about the children killed and injured on almost a daily basis on motorcycles, think about the children killed and injured on almost a daily basis by other children and other adults, think about the children killed or injured by every possible communicable disease known to man, think about the children dying in war-torn countries. But? "Look! Covid killed this child. Covid is SPECIAL." No, Covid is no longer "special." It's just another endemic, relatively common, flu-like, disease that has the same potential to cause sickness, and in some cases death -- just like other endemic, relatively common, flu-like diseases which have the potential to cause sickness, and in some cases death: influenza, RSV, pneumonia (viral or bacterial), TB, dengue, or even the 'common cold.' A common cold can kill someone if the person has co-comorbidities and other health issues or just a weak immune system. Then we can get into the deaths caused by accidents, crime, war - and just the fact that the bodies of living animals, including humans, eventually wear out and die. It's just that some people simply can't let go of "The Pandemic" which quite literally defined their lives - it gave their lives meaning - for three years as they championed lock-downs, masking, and "emergency use authorized" shots. And now they wish to irrationally maintain and promote the same level of fear and hyperbole - where there simply is no longer a rational cause for fear - when compared to all of the other things within human existence that have the capability to kill you. And as author Chuck Palahniuk wrote in his book, Fight Club, "On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." Come on kids, come back and join the rest of us in "The Old Normal." Ditch the fear and get back to living your lives. Something IS going to kill you - for sure, it's gonna happen. But it is not healthy to obsess over your mortality. So let's get back to being Bobby McFerrin: "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Now start living again! Let it go!

Regarding iHerb shipping policies. They have changed. My last order was last September when I made three $40 orders on the same day in order to obtain free shipping but still stay under the tariff threshold. There was no problem. iHerb will now put a "Courtesy Hold" on one of the two orders I made yesterday, and will hold the second order for 72 hours before shipping it. This applies to a number of countries, and although Thailand isn't on the list of countries which officially receives "Courtesy Holds," unofficially it seems they are. So just another "head's up" to changes. From iHerb: Multiple orders were placed in a short period of time. To help prevent customs delays and fees, iHerb will only release one order at a time and temporarily hold other shipments when multiple orders are placed within 24 hours of each other. Here is a list of countries which have complimentary holding periods: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great, Britain, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine.

Trust me - I absolutely blame the government for their part in creating unaffordable prices with their duties and tariffs and impediments to a level playing field when it comes to the sale of imported products. However, if you chose to compete in the marketplace and do so by selling products at a significant premium over the price of product that can be obtained from other channels overseas? Don't complain when someone can out compete you. Nobody is forcing your wife to compete in the marketplace - that's a personal choice. For example, I looked up a melatonin product that is selling for about $13.50 on iHerb that someone is attempting to sell for ฿1200 or $32 at the present exchange rate. That's what I'm talking about when I say "rip-off pricing." But I believe in free markets, and trade unimpeded by government such as tariffs, duties, and sanctions as well as over-regulation are only there to enrich the government at the expense of the consumer and honest sellers. But, if you are a seller don't complain when wise and thrifty consumers seek the most discounted prices and make their purchases where they can get the most "bang for their baht/buck" and then talk with other consumers to find the most discounted prices wherever they may be found - which is the purpose of this original OP post. So, as the OP author I have entertained your question and I have provided an answer, so let's bring this back on topic. If you wish to take this further, please start your own OP in the Business Forum. I'd be more then happy to add comments to your OP posted in its own, separate thread. Thanks! This topic is about obtaining discounted melatonin, in this case from iHerb - but I'd entertain discounted melatonin from any seller including those selling domestically or overseas - for those of us who use melatonin for sleep - as well our difficulties finding discounted melatonin here in Thailand as consumers.

I know - inject lot more money into the economy, debase the THB further - and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. In the meantime, in-between time, ain't we got fun!

People selling melatonin here in Thailand are doing so at completely rip-off prices. Go look on Line Shopping for example. Fyi - it's not banned although some carriers refuse to ship it (Flash). Read through that thread as Sheryl chimed in on the topic. Only available from iHerb shipped via Thai Post and limited to one bottle with a maximum pill count of 90 pills. Which is why I wrote this post.

Expect Increase in COVID-19 Cases as School Term Approaches OMG!!! Say it's not so? Oh wait! And also increases in influenza, colds, RSV, STDs, mononucleosis, herpes, TB, and "bad humours," and a whole plethora of other communicable diseases that tend to occur when large groups of people are in close contact - like at the beginning of school year. But but but - Covid is special. It's special!!! 🙄 Of course it is. Four years after the fact and what is now a mild flu-like illness still scares the pants off of some people (look for mask wearers). Outside of Asia (and Thailand) most people have gotten tired of the rhetoric and have jettisoned the fear and have gotten back to "old normal."

I stumbled around a workaround to iHerb's policy of only shipping one bottle of melatonin with a maximum pill count of 90 pills (they won't ship 120 count). You can only order one bottle of 60 or 90 count melatonin from a single supplier. Get the idea? I just ordered 150 5mg pills (60 + 90) which only cost $1.60 shipping. Total cost $18 and change or roughly 680 THB at today's exchange rate (37THB/USD ). I didn't realize the USD/THB had increased. On a side note, I also made a purchase for $40 and change to get free shipping (different items). Something to watch though is that 37THB/USD which brings the cost of the items razor-close to the 1500 THB threshold for customs. This will be interesting. The charges are in USD so someone at the Post Office would need to look up the exchange rate and calculate the threshold. If the USD keeps climbing (I'm not complaining) the days of $40 for "Free Shipping" may be a thing of the past as you'll be paying duty. Not sure what they'll do as I live out in the sticks and know the people at the post office so they may be a little more lax out here.

Exactly. It's ignorance and panic that is a deadly combination when encountering rips.

I've spent enough time in the ocean surfing and boogie-boarding to understand rips. Keep you head, keep your cool and you can find a way back to shore. Lose you head and panic?

It hysterical how so many people get their Nose bent out of shape (pun intended) by comedy. It's COMEDY ffs?

Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital At the rate of the Russian accelerating advance, give this thread until around August or September and the title will be relevant again. That is if Europe (and the entire world for that matter) isn't one large smoking hole. Well - you won't have to worry about "global warming" caused by cow farts after the first 24 hours as "nuclear winter" sets in. After which everyone's visceral hatred for other ethnicity and nations they have been raised to hate since birth will be a completely moot point. Ya'll be too busy fighting off your neighbors for a few grains of rice and some canned food. "Hummm, where's my old CD of "A Boy And His Dog?" So I'll leave you with Mark Twain's The War Prayer for all of you wishing Hell On Earth for your enemies whomever you have been told they may be. Thank God for satirists like Mr Clemens whose words may have forestalled the end by a few years. “Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle—be Thou near them! With them—in spirit—we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it— For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

I guess Cossack gals go for a premium.

Where can I find traditional extension ladders in Chiangmai/Thailand? Lazada - that's where I bought my last ladder.

I expect to be dead in 9 years. If not - I'll worry about it in nine years. However - given the Geo-political situation where the US and the West consider themselves to be Superman and the rest of the world is Lex Luther, and Lex is breaking out the Kryptonite, none of us many be around in 9 months, or 9 weeks, or 9 days. If you don't grasp that, well - ignorance is bliss. In the meanwhile, I'll hand it over to Bobby McFerrin - "Don't Worry, Be Happy!"

Do you have the victim mentality? Nope!

I simply stopped drinking Coke and Pepsi. Shrinkflation plus overpricing equals I'm not bothering to buy it anymore. On the positive side, my blood sugar numbers haven't been better.

Bed bug usually leave 3 punctures in close proximity that tend to be red and swollen. That's a spider bite, or a tiny little cobra. 😉

Spider

Well, yeahhhh. How are corporations to squeeze the most money out of customers if they don't "shrinkflation?" Like the soft-drink corporations do. 2/3 of a liter in a liter plastic bottle. Lots more unnecessary plastic to add to the ocean gyres of plastic. I've got the solution. Just don't buy it anymore. Beer? Drink three "pints" and you won't care anymore. 😉

One out of 100 people could have heart damage and both the government and Big-Pharma would spew statistics saying: Instead both would blame it on the victim for having pre-existing conditions and bad life-style choices - or - We see nothing!. And then I still remember Joe Biden up on stage at a Town Hall saying, "You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations," and "If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-get-covid/ And then on July 21, 2022 NPR publishes this: "Even if you're the president, it's hard to avoid a breakthrough COVID infection With his positive test for COVID-19 on Thursday, President Biden joined the throngs of Americans who have contracted the coronavirus even though they are vaccinated and boosted." https://www.npr.org/2022/07/21/1112770591/biden-coronavirus-breakthrough-infection And unfortunately people who got the shots, regardless of the relative numbers in relationship to the "unvaccinated," vaccinated have still have gone to the hospital, gone to an ICU, and some have died. The president told us that would not happen! So, like me, there are many people who feel that government officials willfully lie to them to promote pharmaceutical company's products at the expense of safety. It's perception. I catch you lying to me - then a don't trust you after that. Then Big Pharma and the government wrings their hands over "vaccine hesitancy." "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

If there is such a super low incident of side-affects, then why are the shots indemnified? If the major side affects are so rare then the company should have no problem paying the health care and recovery costs of those rare, few souls who the shots damaged. Or if the government indemnified the companies than they should step up and pay. Right? Instead - "Get the shots, get the shots, get the shots - oh - you got TTS and a 2 million THB hospital bill? You must of had a comorbidity. It's your own fault, sucks to be you. Fill out this paperwork and we'll get back to you in a few years...maybe; may not. Get the shots, get the shots, get the shots." Then they wring their hands about "vaccine hesitancy." 🙂 "Get the shots. TTS is very very very rare. Never happen to you." 🤕 "It happened to me and now I have heart problems and bills and I can't work." 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 <chirp chirp chirp> 🙂 "Get the shots. TTS is very very very rare. Never happen to you." Then it takes the public to step up: "We're holding a benefit for Khun SucksToBeYou who got TTS after his AZ shot to help pay his medical bills." Government and Pharmaceutical companies "Why are so few people getting the shots. Come-on. 'Safe and Effective.' Get the shots! We're losing money. Chop chop! Declare a pandemic."

That's one of my major complaint regarding news stories. BREAKING - MAJOR PRESS RELEASE Videos, interviews, Thai social media upheavals - News at Six!!! Then. <poof> memory holed in 24 hours. No follow-up. "Who Cares Journalism" at its finest. Off to report on the next shiny object. It's like the guy on the three-wheel EV scooter who shot through an intersection and got T-boned by an Isuzu. Guy's in ICU. Lot's of discussion regarding who is in the wrong and who is in the right. Did anyone see any follow-up. That's a huge story at a public service level in order to educate the public about road safety on a number of different levels plus many are probably wondering what happened to the "elderly farang" and how the cops sorted it out. But? <crickets>

For those people who want the shots that is. The study below addresses "vaccine hesitancy" among health care workers in Poland. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Level and COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters among Healthcare Workers with the Highest SARS-CoV-2 Infection Risk—Follow Up Study Lorent et.al, Vaccines Journal, April 29, 2024 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/5/475/pdf?version=1714393067 "Our study found that 42% of the HCWs (Health Care Workers) were hesitant about the second booster dose, while 7% reported no intent to get vaccinated with any additional doses. As reasons for not vaccinating, participants most frequently highlighted lack of time, negative experiences with previous vaccinations, and immunity conferred by past infections."