Don Muang Airport - Super fast meter scam

[sikishrory]

This happened to me on 28th of May. I kind of forgotten about it and also the video I made of it was deleted.

Anyway today I see some Thai posted the exact same thing happening to her on Youlike and it has reminded me of it and I thought I would share what happened to me. I consider myself pretty switched on with scams but they got me good with this one.

This is how it happened.

I arrived at Don Muang from Ubon. Had been travelling and most of the day from Laos and was sick and needed to go to hospital.

I went to taxi counter and was assigned a car to take me to Phaya Thai 2 hospital. The male driver seemed ok. I got in the back. Then a tiny little Thai lady that kind of looked like Gollum from lotr came over and asked the driver to swap her passengers (young Thai couple) with me. He protested in Thai that I might complain about this. So she asked me. She was hyper as if in a rush. I tried to think of what the possible scam could be but couldn't. I was also feeling ill and in no mood to really protest too much.

So the Thais took my cab and I took Gollums cab. She immediately asked for the taxi ticket twice which I didn't give her. A few minutes in I noticed the meter was going up by the second in increments of about 2-5 baht.

I took a video and got the number from inside the door and had the ticket and everything.

Next day.

So the ticket gives an address and a phone number to complain too and a few basic tick boxes of what your complaint is.

I never complained because I couldn't be bothered to deal with it really. I think they could bring their complaint service into the 21st century and add an email address or a web page contact or LINE contact. Catching trains around Bangkok in the heat to send a letter about a dodgy taxi or trying to explain it to a Thai on the phone who maybe is not interested is an inconvenience for an issue that has already passed.

That's about it really. It is something to look out for and something I wasn't expecting.

In hindsight I think she thought she had a much better chance at pulling this scam on me than the young Thai couple.

Don't ever switch. If they insist on switching get out and go and get another ticket.

It was a year or two ago now that I remember meter modifications like this were in the headines. So some cabs will have it and some not hence the switch.

Something to think about anyway.

I regret not complaining about it and if anyone has any experience in complaining using the channels on the ticket please share with how well your complaint was received because I can't help but feel sceptical about it but it would be nice to know if it is a good service for future.

[metisdead]

An offensive troll post has been removed, apologies for removing the appropriate reply.