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These "jobs" by women from foreign countries are decades old (flower selling, begging with rent a baby etc.).

Guess they have just forgotten about due to the COVID break.

Good luck with the appeal.

19 hours ago, Martin71 said:

Witness said Chinese..

Elephant pants and Xiaomi make it soo likely.

3 hours ago, rwill said:

Looking at previous bills it is better to look at usage rather than cost.  See if your usage has increased compared to before.  Rates can change so not as good of a way to see what's happening.

Yes. But the bill has increased 24% compared to 2023. By no way can this be explained by rate increase.

A heat wave is a heat wave. Poorer people lured in the shopping malls. Those who can pay sat under the AC at home or office.

New record peak power consumption nationwide.

On 5/8/2024 at 4:51 PM, davb said:

Thank you everyone. I found some of the previous bills, so maybe it didn't go up as much as it seems. Here is what I've been paying - I'll try to find the amount of electricity used. I was just really surprised to see it go over 6,000 baht.

 

2023
April 4,673
May: 5,034
June: 5,063
July: 3,534
Aug: 4,646
Sept. 4,937
Oct - can't find
Nov: 3,096
Dec.: 3,111
2024
Jan: 3,452
Feb.: 4,487
March: 5,090
April: 5,317
May: 6,245
 

May 23 5034

May 24 6245

No dramatic rise after the historic heatwave.

But: we are 3 people in a two storey house.

3 ACs. During the heatwave: one running "a couple of hours" during daytime.

Two running about 7 hours in the night at 26 to 27 C.

Last night without AC. Quite fresh and a light breeze.

Last bill 3800.

So compared your bill is extreme.

ACs running 24h?

What temperature? 

2 minutes ago, torturedsole said:

I don't think the bank is interested, as long as it's delivered by fax. 

If I knew. Try and error?

My last FAX was about 10 years ago from an internet cafe in Pattaya.

Tips about printers with FAX: nice but how many here have an "analog" telephone connection? Installation of new ones for private users has been ended as far as I know.

3 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Fax machines are very old school, no one really uses them now.

You should study German government health organization

They collected COVID data and sent it via FAX to the headquarters where they were typed into a database.

Statistics way behind reality. No sending FAX on the weekend.

Similar applies to other organizations in the country.

4 minutes ago, giddyup said:

I made it very clear from my first post that I wanted to use somewhere locally to send a fax, nobody has actually provided than information. Go hassle someone else.

Am I on your ignore list?

Even added a picture of the shop.

Why not give it try?

Other posters also gave advice where you still might find a tradition FAX service.

The endless "FAX service on internet" tips might be useless if the bank really expects a proper FAX with sender number (from Thailand?).

On 5/7/2024 at 11:12 AM, bkk6060 said:

Sure seems like a lot more then 13 or 16. 

"Observances" are not holidays.

Summer solstice is not a holiday even in Thailand.

Maybe in Sweden .

Do they still offer the service or is it just a forgotten sign?

(in the past almost all internet cafes offered FAX)

There is an "internet cafe" (one of the few remaining) on South Pattaya rd. opposite the T-junction of Soi Buakhao. Right of the Advice shop (further right is Tukcom). Try your luck.

3 hours ago, Denim said:

Actually his son and his daughter.

Yea, I was too fast. Two kids

54 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

How hard is it for the cars and riders to drive and ride in a straight line here ??

Scoopy i is a small wheel scooter.

Instable wobblers.

I hate riding such ALONE.

He had two sons on the pillion.

Do you think there were three helmets worn?

1 minute ago, digbeth said:

 

Because it's Krueng Neu, Neu Krueng would be an inch and a half  🙂 

No.

If you like you can discuss this in the Thai language forum.

13 minutes ago, digbeth said:

I've never seen anything measured in actual 'hun' most of the time they just substitute it for eights of an inc

You don't know the mom&pop shop in my village

The lady would not understand 1/2inch (niu krueng).

Even after pointing to the designation on the pipe she insisted its "si hun".

And that the pipe is by no way a 1/2 inch pipe but just a "symbolic"/trade name is another topic.

1 hour ago, Upnotover said:

People who want to travel regularly away from where they live buy cars.  

When I stay in Pattaya I mostly drive a rented scooter.

Car parks at the hotel for few planned trips if any.

Preferably early morning.

Just read from another poster about the last weekend (4th May) with 2 hour gridlock on 2nd rd/central.

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I know where there's a cheap one for sale, if you are good with a spanner, just needs a tinker here and there. 

How not to ride. Poor guy on a disability three wheeler.

1 hour ago, topt said:

I take it you mean the mid market rate taken from one of the online providers like XE?

Yes, xe.com.
https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=EUR&To=THB
 

Now at 39.587

As I use WISE for transfer I also look there, very close (39.5839).

EUR note rates from first round:

Bangkok Bank 38.87

SCB 38.95

Krungsri 39.05

Kasikorn 38.89

That fits my experience.

Kasikorn and BKB worst.

Krungsri best.

Foreign exchange rate 39.607

So quite a margin.

5 hours ago, Khyron said:

Anyone have this experience?

No.

5 hours ago, Khyron said:

don't make it to Bangkok much, this would be in Isaan.

Thanks.

In major upcountry cities there are specialized changers which might offer a few satang more.

What currency and amount are you thinking of?

To profit from travelling to Bangkok/Pattaya or the like it should be no less than 50000  Euro cash equiv.

2 hours ago, Upnotover said:

All the banks publish their current rates on their websites.  Easy enough to look up a few banks to see if one is better than another.

Exactly that. And for private/small deals there is no real time stuff involved.

Only for real high amounts the branches are obliged to check back with the headquarter (as shown on fine print at Bangkok Bank).

They usually do 3 or 4 rounds per day. First one is about 8:30h.

Just looked at SCB and Bangkok Bank EUR rates.

Assuming it's about bank notes! not electronic transfer.

Difference is in the 0.05 Baht range better for SCB.

Never paid any fee for money exchange in Thailand. Profit is always in the rate.

13 hours ago, Lorry said:

AIS 4G+:  1.90 Mbps dow, 25.9 Mbps up, ping 26ms

It is indeed exceptional that the download is (so much) worse than the upload. Maybe the network is overloaded in your area.

You can only hope that True/DTAC is better.

Some posters recommend "NT Thunder" which I don't much about.

Just did another test here: 47 / 40. Quite normal.

9 minutes ago, connda said:

How are corporations to squeeze the most money out of customers if they don't "shrinkflation?"

Some nice examples in Thailand.

680 ml bottles of beer shrinking to 620 nowadays and less alcohol content.

(allegedly a legal limit)

Singha came out with an 0.5 l bottle (still on the shelfs?).

330 (333) ml cans of soft drink now 325.

MAKRO manages the other way: 6 croissants instead of 4 but much higher price. Similar for some chocolate cake thing.

Just seem an obviously "small" diet Pepsi can with 245 ml.

All for your health

For all examples you need a calc to find out what happened.

X (twitter.com) complete in less than two seconds.

Seems the cable (SEA-ME-WE 5) has not been repaired yet.

Might take another two weeks.

Look forward to first quarter 2025.

SEA-ME-WE 6 has just landed in Marseille, 130 Tbps will be added ☺️

On the other hand I would still believe that a proper VPN (no free garbage) to Singapore could help.

Can't count how many cable landings there are (more than 30 roughly).

On 4/30/2024 at 11:18 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

I buy this for the girlfriend,

Is your girlfriend Thai?

Did she read about GOMO (AIS network)? (registration only with Thai ID card).

https://gomo.th/

150 GB (unlimited speed, 3G, 4G, 5G) for 999 incl tax. usable for one year.

If used up additional volume can be bought.

I have purchased through the daughter.

As I use mobile data only when "on the road" the 150 GB will likely be enough for the year.