Went back to my home country, obtained the right visa and just arrived yesterday in Bangkok.

Booked using a chat application an apartment with a deposit of 2500 baht, but once here noone show up to pick me up as agreed.

What action I can take or what you will do if this happen to you?

1. Never pay up front.

2. Get the bus or train to town.

 

Be thankful you only paid 2,500bht!

Happened to me when I used Booking.com.

Edited March 13, 20233 yr by BritManToo

If I had address I would get a taxi to where the place is. 

$70 bucks lost.  Take one less night out and forget about it.  Easy to find another place.

Lesson learned.  As BM2 stated ... good advice.

13 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

 

2. Get the bus or train to town.

The guy who was supposed to rent the apartment also agreed to pick me up at airport. Now i am in hotel but cannot spend my time in this place.

 

10 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

If I had address I would get a taxi to where the place is. 

Already done, but cannot find it.

I am quite sure it was a pure scam.

 

24 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

what you will do if this happen to you?

I'd call them.  

 

Who did you book with, an anonymous chat group/person you'd never heard of?

10 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

$70 bucks lost.  Take one less night out and forget about it.  Easy to find another place.

Is not worth make a report to local PS?

2 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

The guy who was supposed to rent the apartment also agreed to pick me up at airport. Now i am in hotel but cannot spend my time in this place.

 

AirBnB usually has some good offerings.

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I'd call them.  

 

Who did you book with, an anonymous chat group/person you'd never heard of?

No phone number or have a phone number but is always down.

With a person I dont know.

You will have to be more careful , scammed before you even got here,

regards worgeordie

16 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

No phone number or have a phone number but is always down.

With a person I dont know.

Congrats.

21 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

Already done, but cannot find it.

I am quite sure it was a pure scam.

 

Welcome to Thailand. ???? 

13 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Welcome to Thailand. ???? 

What you will do if it was you facing this situation?

10 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

What you will do if it was you facing this situation?

I wouldn't get into that situation all know is a lesson learnt so take care. 

As other members have already offered, write it off, ie. forget about the lost booking or scam and forget about any redress as well. The police won't lift a finger, more so if you can't give a name, contact or address.

 

As other members have offered, airbnb will give you plenty of options for a cheaper stay than a hotel while you find something more suitable. Even the regular hotel booking sites will probably find you somewhere cheaper if you go for 2-star digs.

17 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

31 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Welcome to Thailand. ???? 

What you will do if it was you facing this situation?

Sorry, but if it were me, I'd never have booked accommodation through someone I did not know and have no other means of contacting except via a chat app.   I think that's where you went wrong and you should now just write it off and put it down to experience.

The biggest thing I would do is try and learn from my mistake and not repeat it in the future. I have made a lot of mistakes in my travels and try to learn from them.

 

I try to acknowledge my mistake and move forward. You will not get a lot out of beating yourself up; rehashing the mistake or trying to get your money back. Accept your loss and find a place that fulfills your needs and I hope you have better luck in the rest of your time in Thailand.

31 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 The police won't lift a finger, more so if you can't give a name, contact or address.

I have name, surname, proof of money transfer as well.

1 hour ago, Cuadrado said:

Is not worth make a report to local PS?

No.

I would have pulled out Agoda, check for hotels by the airport link line, book hotel last minute, go there, then proceed to demand the deposit back and stop making accommodation bookings via chats with strangers. There are much more reliable options to book a place, you know!

 

Imagine you got picked up by some serial killer and disposed of on the way to accommodation. So it could have been a lot worse.

 

Take it as a lesson and move on.

19 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

I have name, surname, proof of money transfer as well.

So you seem to be fixated on this.  There is not a person here that has not been scammed at one point or another.  

The simple solution is to get over it. put your big boy pants on and get on with your holiday.  

 

The amount of time you will spend trying to get something from nothing is going to ruin your holiday time.

 

First, you do not know if the name you have is real, you do not know if the phone number is real or a burner, and you do not know where this place was supposed to be.

 

What are the police supposed to do?  In Canada they would simply say ok we will file a report and if anything turns up we will let you know.  Then it would go in the tourist got scammed pile.

 

Yo obviously came here for a holiday the suggestion here is 

GET OVER IT 

GET DRUNK

GET LAID

HAVE FUN.

after get over it the order for the rest is up to you.

 

 

1 hour ago, Cuadrado said:

What you will do if it was you facing this situation?

I'd go out and score some of the primo bud that is available everywhere now.  Just put things in perspective.

It could be worse... you could be in some farangland s***hole.

2 hours ago, Cuadrado said:

Booked using a chat application an apartment with a deposit of 2500 baht, but once here noone show up to pick me up as agreed.

I'm guessing you sent cash via Western Union to a dude on Facebook?  Nothing you can do.

 

Next time book with an established booking site like Booking.com or Agoda where you have some recourse, and use a credit card.  And whatever you do, don't make agreements with the renter outside of the booking site.

2 hours ago, Cuadrado said:

Already done, but cannot find it.

I am quite sure it was a pure scam.

 

That is a great scam.   How did you find the place to book it in the first place?

 

9 minutes ago, Freddy42OZ said:

That is a great scam.   How did you find the place to book it in the first place?

 

The guy propose me the place.

29 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

I'm guessing you sent cash via Western Union to a dude on Facebook?  Nothing you can do.

No: bank transfer.

2 hours ago, Cuadrado said:

Already done, but cannot find it.

I am quite sure it was a pure scam.

 

Yep sounds like a scam, someone posted something very similar a few weeks ago, easy way to earn money

17 minutes ago, Cuadrado said:

No: bank transfer.

Ah.  Sorry, my reading comprehension failed.  Had to re-read the original post.

 

You live here now (long term visa?) and have a Thai bank account which you used to transfer 2500 baht to some guy on the Facebooks?  Or maybe deposited cash into some guy's account either at a teller or ATM?