Agent tells me that Bangkok Bank wants a driver's license from your country + passport.

[NanLaew]

11 hours ago, DudleySquat said:

Bangkok Bank doesn't want foreign customers. 

No Dudley, they don't want you.

[NanLaew]

11 hours ago, transam said:

My new English friend has just opened a BKK Bank account....

And the branch was where?

 

And his non-immigrant entitlement was what?

[NanLaew]

10 hours ago, proton said:

Sister in law works at BB, she says no!

Which branch?

 

Sheesh...

[mokwit]

13 hours ago, Celsius said:

Btw not to hijack a thread, but I have received a notice on my app that starting June you will have to go to a branch and do a full face scan if you want to use online banking for all transactions over 50,000 baht

Needs a thread of it's own. I and many others come here for this kind of 'heads up'

 

 

 

[gamb00ler]

6 hours ago, DudleySquat said:

Years ago I used my Debit Card to bring over 200,000b.  No fees back then. 

 

Bangkok Bank debited the money from my USA ATM.  

 

I wanted to deposit the money in a new Bangkok Bank account.  I was told no because i have to get my passport verified at my Embassy to open an account. They handed me 200,000 with just my passport, but now it is not good enough.  

 

Stupid. 

 

 

Bangkok bank still adds no fees when you get a "cash advance", at least from a debit card.  I never tried using a credit card.  The fees are generally added by the card issuer.

 

I assume you mean Bangkok bank debited the money from your USA account.

 

I've often taken "cash advances" at Bangkok bank with my Schwab Visa debit card and only my passport.  If I wanted it, they would just hand me the cash.  For me it's much more convenient to deposit it directly to my account with them.

 

I've opened accounts at three different Thai banks.  I've needed more that just a passport at all of them.  I also needed a certificate of residence for all three and at SCB I also needed a Thai tax ID number.  Bangkok bank checked that I was on an O visa and would be getting an extension based on retirement.  Kasikorn and SCB required that I already have an extension for 12 months.  I'm not American so that probably makes it somewhat easier for them.  I'm not surprised that they wouldn't open an account with just a passport.

[Celsius]

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Are we supposed to play at "Guess what bank" now?

 

Sheesh...

 

Nothing to guess. Every bank

[transam]

6 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

But you won't tell us for. London to a brick on that this didn't happen in Bangkok.

Not in BKK, not in London either............????

[transam]

5 hours ago, NanLaew said:

And the branch was where?

 

And his non-immigrant entitlement was what?

Not telling, but is visa exempt, but I will say, there are times when it's who you know that counts.....????

[Liverpool Lou]

18 hours ago, Celsius said:

Btw not to hijack a thread, but I have received a notice on my app that starting June you will have to go to a branch and do a full face scan if you want to use online banking for all transactions over 50,000 baht

Which bank?

[Liverpool Lou]

18 hours ago, DudleySquat said:

There is some magic over at BKK Bank that Kasikorn and TTB don't have.  Evidently.

Evidently, not.  My agent used my existing Kasikorn account with no issues.

[Liverpool Lou]

17 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

17 hours ago, norbra said:

Agents using Kasikorn also have the "magic" 

It was reported months ago, no longer Kasikorn

Three months ago Kasikorn was acceptable to my agent/IO.

[bignok]

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Three months ago Kasikorn was acceptable to my agent/IO.

Agent 99?

[jaywalker2]

16 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

To use an agent he needs Bangkok Bank

That's not true. Other banks are acceptable but it will cost more.

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

one of which was something about a guarantee letter from my Embassy.

Same requirement for me when I tried to add SCB to my bank account collection a few weeks ago.  

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

But you won't tell us for. London to a brick on that this didn't happen in Bangkok.

Huh?  What sort of code is that written in?

[Liverpool Lou]

13 minutes ago, bignok said:

17 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Three months ago Kasikorn was acceptable to my agent/IO.

Agent 99?

No.

[KhunLA]

19 hours ago, KannikaP said:

And if you do not have one?????

I don't, and haven't since I got my TH DL, never renewed.

 

I can't understand why people use agents to do the simplest things, and then believe everything they say.  Anything to make using them seem necessary.

[transam]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I don't, and haven't since I got my TH DL, never renewed.

 

I can't understand why people use agents to do the simplest things, and then believe everything they say.  Anything to make using them seem necessary.

Bit like folk talking up MG cars, eh...................????

[scubascuba3]

38 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Three months ago Kasikorn was acceptable to my agent/IO.

for the fake 800k in and out?

[scubascuba3]

27 minutes ago, jaywalker2 said:

That's not true. Other banks are acceptable but it will cost more.

nah, i know what banks they usually state, was bangkok bank and Kasikorn, then they dropped Kasikorn. So from your experience, what other banks and how much for what?

[dingdongrb]

Agents......  Pfffffft.... Who needs an agent?

 

I have gotten 2 different bank accounts, had my Thai driver's license renewed 3 times, done the marriage extension 4 or 5 times, changed it over to retirement, and renewed it many times ........  all without the need of a silly agent!

[transam]

3 minutes ago, dingdongrb said:

Agents......  Pfffffft.... Who needs an agent?

 

I have gotten 2 different bank accounts, had my Thai driver's license renewed 3 times, done the marriage extension 4 or 5 times, changed it over to retirement, and renewed it many times ........  all without the need of a silly agent!

Wow, we have a high-flyer member..............

[dingdongrb]

39 minutes ago, transam said:

Wow, we have a high-flyer member..............

'High-flyer'.......  You must be watching me take those bong hits.

[transam]

1 minute ago, dingdongrb said:

'High-flyer'.......  You must be watching me take those bong hits.

I don't think so, just reading your opinion of how wonderful you are.................

[Lemsta69]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Huh?  What sort of code is that written in?

Typo. Should be "how" not "for". As in, Transam won't tell us how he opened a Bangkok Bank account for his mate who was on visa exempt. He won't tell us where either but I think he lives way up in Ubon so that narrows it down a bit. 

 

As for the 2nd part of my post, that's a gambling term that refers to impossible odds. Surely you've come across it in your travels?

[transam]

3 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

Typo. Should be "how" not "for". As in, Transam won't tell us how he opened a Bangkok Bank account for his mate who was on visa exempt. He won't tell us where either but I think he lives way up in Ubon so that narrows it down a bit. 

 

As for the 2nd part of my post, that's a gambling term that refers to impossible odds. Surely you've come across it in your travels?

You missed out, there are times "when it's who you know', and it wasn't me...

[dingdongrb]

38 minutes ago, transam said:

I don't think so, just reading your opinion of how wonderful you are.................

You are wonderful too, I luv you long-time......

 

[DudleySquat]

10 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

ah ok off topic, no big deal, you just go to the branch for a photo 

My Kasikorn accounts do a face scan already.  

[scubascuba3]

3 minutes ago, DudleySquat said:

My Kasikorn accounts do a face scan already.  

when? my Kasikorn app hasn't asked for it

[jaywalker2]

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

nah, i know what banks they usually state, was bangkok bank and Kasikorn, then they dropped Kasikorn. So from your experience, what other banks and how much for what?

For example, an agent I used it was 14,000 if you banked at Kasikorn, 16,000 anywhere else.  Another had an account at Bangkok Bank. and again the cost was 2000 more if you wanted to use another bank.