Please can anyone help me

I went to pay my Internet bill electric bill and water bill in tesco also tried big C  and 7/11 all refused to allow me to pay without a Thai id. 

Don't the staff know aliens are not allowed to have a Thai id, they refused my passport and pictures of me in every room of the house. 

So how do I pay? 

And what's this nonsense about anyway 

You can get a Thai ID if you wish and meet the criteria.

 

PEA have an app, or you can visit the local office and pay in cash.

same applies to the internet, either online,internet banking or at an office.

 

You havnt stated where you are as perhaps we could get some local input for you.

 

9 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

You can get a Thai ID if you wish and meet the criteria.

 

PEA have an app, or you can visit the local office and pay in cash.

same applies to the internet, either online,internet banking or at an office.

 

You havnt stated where you are as perhaps we could get some local input for you.

 

Charlie, where is this PEA app, just typed in PEA in play store and it came up with the Premature Ejaculation App☹️, can I pay my True internet and phone on line too. In Pattaya.

Edited January 24, 20206 yr by vogie

Just send a Thai to make the payment.

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

Just send a Thai to make the payment.

Good idea

2 hours ago, vogie said:

Charlie, where is this PEA app, just typed in PEA in play store and it came up with the Premature Ejaculation App☹️, can I pay my True internet and phone on line too. In Pattaya.

here ya go.......

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esrith.pea_mobile&hl=en

2 hours ago, phka said:

And what's this nonsense about anyway 

 

19 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

I won't bother shopping at tesco anymore if they have joined the xenophobic club

BigC and 7/11 also?

That's new!

3 hours ago, phka said:

also tried big C  and 7/11

 

2 hours ago, CharlieH said:

here ya go.......

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esrith.pea_mobile&hl=en

Yea according to the reviews they only accept a Thai id just another little thing to make you feel unwelcome, Chinese call it death by a thousand cuts

 

Can someone explain the rationale behind this decision? What difference does it make who it is paying a invoice for any of these things? Why should any ID by the payer be required? If someone wants to be generous and pay a customers PEA or TOT or water bill so what? Why the ID requirement?  What am I missing here?

You can pay all bills with any banking app. Why make your life difficult ? One app...pay all

10 hours ago, phka said:

Yea according to the reviews they only accept a Thai id just another little thing to make you feel unwelcome, Chinese call it death by a thousand cuts

 

There's a thread about it somewhere, you just need a 13 digit number that meets the requirement of a Thai ID. There are apps that will allow you to create a number, PEA do no actual checking.

 

33 minutes ago, longball53098 said:

Can someone explain the rationale behind this decision? What difference does it make who it is paying a invoice for any of these things? Why should any ID by the payer be required? If someone wants to be generous and pay a customers PEA or TOT or water bill so what? Why the ID requirement?  What am I missing here?

It's to make life just a little more difficult for ex pats living here it's to make you feel unwelcome because the hate us

I pay all my bills, PEA - 3BB - True, and actually anything I can think is available there, through the Kbank mobile app.

 

No fees.

 

Just open the app, select which utility you want to pay, enter your identification code for that particular company, and it will show how much you're due to pay.

1 hour ago, tonray said:

You can pay all bills with any banking app. Why make your life difficult ? One app...pay all

Not quite, all sorts of dumb exceptions. Eg: I can pay my phone bill from TOT with online/app via Bangkok Bank but not SCB. TIT.

 

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On 1/25/2020 at 8:51 AM, phka said:

It's to make life just a little more difficult for ex pats living here it's to make you feel unwelcome because the hate us

Or maybe it's just to make life easier for Thais living here? There are about 69 million Thai people compared to about 2 million non Thai most of which are not westerners. Maybe the app used at these places is designed to read the chip on the Thai ID card in order to reduce manual input of details this reducing time and mistakes? 

But no. You're probably right. The people up there hate you so much all they do every day is designing apps to make you miserable.....

On 1/24/2020 at 9:45 PM, phka said:

Yea according to the reviews they only accept a Thai id just another little thing to make you feel unwelcome, Chinese call it death by a thousand cuts

 

been using this app for a year zero problems. True can be paid through their app. Paid 3bb at their shop friday no problem. 

On 1/24/2020 at 4:42 PM, CharlieH said:

You can get a Thai ID if you wish and meet the criteria.

 

PEA have an app, or you can visit the local office and pay in cash.

same applies to the internet, either online,internet banking or at an office.

 

You havnt stated where you are as perhaps we could get some local input for you.

 

The Thai id for none Thais does not have a bar code, and it does not have the communication chip that is on it.  So it is not the same.  The put the Thai id in a machine and it reads the bar code and the chip.  

 

On 1/25/2020 at 9:14 AM, Susco said:

I pay all my bills, PEA - 3BB - True, and actually anything I can think is available there, through the Kbank mobile app.

 

No fees.

 

Just open the app, select which utility you want to pay, enter your identification code for that particular company, and it will show how much you're due to pay.

Its a lot easier if you use the Q code or bar code scanner with Kbank app. Also useful for checking to see if you owe anything.

Yep, I too had that experience last week at Tesco. Paid AIS internet at their counter with no problem but the Tesco counter would not accept my paying the electric bill, as they have done for the past 3 years, without Thai ID.

Thailand staggering hesitantly into the 1990s.

Just another stepping stone to the cashless society and giving Big Brother the power to docket your "energy wallet" if you have been a bad boy.

 

Do a bit of research on China's social credit system if you want to know where we are all heading.  

 

 

On 1/25/2020 at 8:51 AM, phka said:

It's to make life just a little more difficult for ex pats living here it's to make you feel unwelcome because the hate us

On Saturday i went to Tesco and asked the manager (She speaks English), why they do not accept the bills unless Thai id accompanies the bill, but she was unable to explain why this has to be done. She took my telephone number and stated she would get back to me with the answer.  Waiting, Waiting, Waiting ha ha ha

All you need to do is, (I am in CM and for you, the same wherever you are), is to go to Airport Plaza, or equivalent, to the main Offices of the Electricity Board, and for me, 3BB and they accept payment without any fuss whatsoever. 

 

I pay my water bill in my village, but I assume you can pay at the Water Authority - I think on the Outer RIng Road, before Tesco Lotus, Camtien, CM - but not sure so check.

 

I did exactly that last week, quickly and efficiently after being denied the service by Lotus, Hang Dong, BKK Bank and SCB. They can all shove it as far as I am concerned.

 

They all had a P/C of a government document, (yes, this pathetic important authority within the government that appears to have declared all us foreigners exempted from being allowed to pay their own bills!

 

Production of your Driving License, car or motorbike - and even more rediculously, your passport, no longer appear to be a valid document here in Thailand to complete these simple, but important functions to us, but insignificant minutae to the Thai government!

 

I believe 7/11 is included in this farce, too.

 

I have no sympathy for these organisations - their Hi-So owners are the ones who must have agreed to this and now willingly, allow their staffs, all over the country to suffer the dismay and resultant anger of presumably thousands of frustrated and angry Expats.

 

But of course, we are not Chinese are we?

who decided this and when did it start???

Another pain in the backside for everyone!!!

18 minutes ago, Templar Knight said:

On Saturday i went to Tesco and asked the manager (She speaks English), why they do not accept the bills unless Thai id accompanies the bill, but she was unable to explain why this has to be done. She took my telephone number and stated she would get back to me with the answer.  Waiting, Waiting, Waiting ha ha ha

you will be waiting as long as the Pattaya tram comes into town.....and the H S R....

On 1/25/2020 at 8:30 AM, Crossy said:

 

There's a thread about it somewhere, you just need a 13 digit number that meets the requirement of a Thai ID. There are apps that will allow you to create a number, PEA do no actual checking.

 

Just checked, my Thai pink Thai ID card and there is a 13 digit number on it so perhaps that’s all you need.

You can also set up account using customer number and meter number (from your bill) at https://eservice.pea.co.th/.  Then, along with internet banking, pay bill that way.  My bank, SCB, charges 10 baht for the service.