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ANYONE interested in buying Krugerands FULL or HALF at 5% below SPOT

I am in Maha Sarakham area and have no intention of flying out of the country. 

Looking to convert them to Thai gold as easier to buy and sell.

However, anyone that travels to Europe the USA or even Singapore can sell these at SPOT. 

Here in Thailand they are simply not interested and offer stupid money

Contact me if interested.

I have tried all the various companies / gold shops in this thread and NONE are willing to pay the SPOT on Krugerands... I am looking to sell (so as to convert to Thai gold) as I live here permanently and will not be flying anywhere in the near future. 

ANYONE interested in buying krugerands FULL or HALF at 5% below SPOT - Contact me.

I am in Maha Sarakham area.

Have sent you a private message.

Thanks for that... I'll give them a call then take a day out and drive down if it sounds positive.

But I've also heard of farangs getting spot rates at certain gold shops. I'm simply asking if anyone knows of any gold shops that are fair and honest... They are with Thai gold.

Anybody know where I can sell some Gold coins in Thailand...?

Preferably in Khon Kaen or Maha Sarakham areas

Most gold shops don't want to know unless it's Thai gold or they are offering ridiculous 25% below current rates.

21 hours ago, FrequentStops said:

Hi, did you find a van for your trip? If not I can DM you contact info for a service we used for a Savannaket run from Maha Sarakham.

I would appreciate that thanks.

Looking for a nice minivan with a driver for two or three day trips. Main specifification is they allow travel with a dog. 

Trying to contact Bob Thompson of Splash pools but no emails answered and phone line seems dead!

Anyone know if they are still in business - based in Rayong I believe.

Having been through the process both Thai side and here in the UK, I can say that I am often baffled by the problems some folk face whilst going through the process. Maybe I was lucky when doing the settlement visa on the Thai side because it only took 3 days, and maybe I was extremely lucky on the UK side getting my wife through the permanent residency side as well as it only took 6 weeks...

Perhaps, just perhaps, the poster hasn't told us the full facts and as a consequence his application has been rejected. From the 20 or so Thai / UK relationships I know where I live, only one here in the UK has had their settlement bounced and that was because he was a 65 year old man marrying a 30 year old pratum 6 uneducated wench from some massage parlour that he married and brought back to the UK after knowing her for a whopping 6 days. But hey, who am I to suggest that the UK immigration folk maybe, just perhaps, are doing the job properly and keeping those who are slightly suspicious away from our shores....

I have told the full facts, and I have been seeing my girlfriend (aged 39) for 2 years!! I am 53 yrs and been to Thailand 4 times and her to the UK once. I am just as stunned at the decision as she is a really nice honest and well educated Thai girl. has a house, car and good job... But it seems like my papers were not good enough, not hers... It has now been another 7 weeks since the refusal, no news of any decision being overturned... We are both so frustrated and despondent at the system.. I am now going to try the agency route (another B50,000 + B32,000 application fee) and cancel the appeal as I have found that it's going to take at least another 8 months and still may get refused.

Cont...

This is not the first time I have had to go through this process as this is my 3rd marriage. The first was to a Thai 14 yrs ago (another refusal that took over a year to sort out and a real nightmare story in itself, 2 refusals then an appeal and cost me many £1000's in solicitors fees). We won in the end and that was a good marriage that lasted 7 years. Then I married a Filippino and we were together for 5 years. No problems with that application, she had an interview (with virtually all the same info and documents I submitted this time) and she was granted a visa within 15-30 mins... I was stunned at how short the interview was.

Before I get any comments about why my previous marriages ended, they just did, just the same as any western marriage ends. The first (Thai) had a casino and gambling problem that got out of hand. The second (Filipino) had an affair with her driving instructor!!!! So I finished with her and told her to go live with him... and thats where she is now (with his baby and very unhappy and regretfull but too late now).

This is what really gets my back up.....

There is an agency right next door to the UK visa office in Bangkok and they hassel every girl / couple that goes to the UKvisa office to use their (Thai agency) services. They charge about 100,000 baht but guarantee that she gets the visa. A girl that was applying at the same time as my girlfriend (who was an obvious bar girl with no real job etc.) Got her visa with no interview and many of her papers had been (arranged / supplied) by the agency.... Yet my girlfriend with all genuine papers, good job (works for the Thai government), own house and car etc. gets refused!!!!

That girl is now in London... she got the visa illegally and admitted to my girlfriend that it was easy... just pay 100,000 baht and they sort out all the paperwork... She phoned her from London to ask why she did not get hers!!!

If all these rules are supposed to stop this kind of thing happening, then why is a THAI AGENCY opperating right next door to the UK visa office...

Two further points.

1) What exactly do you think illegall immigrants get from the government, other than a free trip home if they're caught?

2) Very few members of the general public feel any sort of stress or frustration over immigration as very few of them ever have anything to do with sponsoring an immigrant.

re point1: I have no idea what they get from the government... but you don't see 1000's of the illegals on the streets, and I can't imagine they all are finding work with no NI numbers etc. I can only assume they say the magic word ASYLUM and they then get the benefits and housing and all the things I CANNOT GET, even though I have never claimed any benifits and have always paid my taxes....

re point 2: How can you state "very few memebrs of the public" The whole county is angry and annoyed with the current immigration situation, they are all suffering from the open door labour policy ofletting millions into the UK..... True they don't suffer like us who are trying to sponsor someone but they are ALL suffering from the mass immigration effects..

Anyway these two points are beside point of my initial posting.... Sounds like your actually employed by the home Office the way you stand up for their rules and policies!!!

My refusal was because of not enough evidence re the accommodation. I live with my elderly mother (84) in a large 3 bed semi which has no mortgage or loans and I do not have a rental aggreement. All I sent in with my fiancees initial application was a letter stating the above signed by my mother the owner of the house. Which I see now as inadequate evidence.

The house has more than enough space, so I can only assume that the ECO did not beleive the letter, ( I cannot quote the exact reason as I do not have the refusal notice at hand right now) How can I send a mortgage or rental aggreement when none are needed or exist!! I have since obtained a letter from the soliciter holding the deeds and took photos of the house, etc. and submitted with the appeal.

Two further points.

1) What exactly do you think illegall immigrants get from the government, other than a free trip home if they're caught?

2) Very few members of the general public feel any sort of stress or frustration over immigration as very few of them ever have anything to do with sponsoring an immigrant.

re point1: I have no idea what they get from the government... but you don't see 1000's of the illegals on the streets, and I can't imagine they all are finding work with no NI numbers etc. I can only assume they say the magic word ASYLUM and they then get the benefits and housing and all the things I CANNOT GET, even though I have never claimed any benifits and have always paid my taxes....

re point 2: How can you state "very few memebrs of the public" The whole county is angry and annoyed with the current immigration situation, they are all suffering from the open door labour policy ofletting millions into the UK..... True they don't suffer like us who are trying to sponsor someone but they are ALL suffering from the mass immigration effects..

Anyway these two points are beside point of my initial posting.... Sounds like your actually employed by the home Office the way you stand up for their rules and policies!!!

My refusal was because of not enough evidence re the accommodation. I live with my elderly mother (84) in a large 3 bed semi which has no mortgage or loans and I do not have a rental aggreement. All I sent in with my fiancees initial application was a letter stating the above signed by my mother the owner of the house. Which I see now as inadequate evidence.

The house has more than enough space, so I can only assume that the ECO did not beleive the letter, ( I cannot quote the exact reason as I do not have the refusal notice at hand right now) How can I send a mortgage or rental aggreement when none are needed or exist!! I have since obtained a letter from the soliciter holding the deeds and took photos of the house, etc. and submitted with the appeal.

We pay over £600 for the settlement application.... massive rip off

and then have to wait 12 weeks for the appointment / decision...

The refusal comes back (standard copy and paste wording) like... lack of

evidence of the accommodation and the ECO saying "they did not think it

is spacious enough" even though it was a large 3 bed semi with only 2 people living in it!

Then... when you gather up the evidence they need and jump on a plane to

Bangkok to submit it hoping the decision will be overturned when they see the new evidence...

But no...... We British citizens and taxpayers who are paying Home Office Staff

their wages and only want to get on with our lives and live with our wives in the UK.....

They arrogantly give you a letter saying that ... they will look at the evidence

in 16 weeks and if it is still no good, the case goes to appeal in the UK

where there will be another 6 month wait.

and they are supposed to be Public servants....

I know they have a hard job to do but for £600+ we should at least get some

sort of fair play and timely decisions surely! How many of us guys are being made

to wait and wait and wait and be punished for what.....?

There are 100's of illegals being let into the UK everyday... what is going on...

We pay massive fees and try to do it the right way and we get punished and they

(illegal immigrants) get everything..

Has the home office gone mad? or do thay have a more sinister agenda that is really

about causing as much frustration and stress as possible for THE GENERAL PUBLIC

with mass immigration etc. so they can bring in more and more control and taxes

and limited freedom of movement etc.

My question to the forum is

Does anyone know a way to get the VISA section to look at the extra evidence

submitted without having to wait ANOTHER 16 weeks?