Well - I have just had an interesting chat with a gentleman from the Tessaban today.

He came to my house asking for a copy of a receipt for the garbage collecting.

I duly gave him last month's receipt and also showed him all of the others.

He showed me a copy of the receipts that were filed at the Tessaban. Guess what - not the 'same same'.

My receipt provided by the contract garbage collectors - 800 baht per month.

Copy receipt filed at the Tessaban - 600 baht per month.

Well - golly gosh and knock me sideways. It appears that the guy who collects the money from me every month might be pulling a fast one.

Am I surprised? Well actually - yes. I am surprised that the Tessaban are following up on it. It has been going on for a couple of years. But good on them.

One in the eye for bad guys.

Note to other posters - please feel free to add any other little scams that you know of to this thread.

Wow I hope it doesn't back fire onto the customer

Why is it so hard to give anyone cash over here

I need to keep every receipt as one day I might need them problem is I have run out of storage space

Maybe the garbage man might have to sell some gold chains

I have to be careful when paying my finance as they called me a while back and asked me how much j have paid them

Normally I should be asking them that

They told me had a problem with their computers

I should have lied and over exaggerated but I truthfully did not know so maybe I did say more than what I had paid anyway their fault if they dknt know

Wow, 600Baht a month for garbage collection?

I pay 20Baht a month.

Keep telling you people, Living in Issan is better than Koh Tao.

OP is talking about Samui, no?

I will gladly pay 600 bt/month and live on these islands than pay 20 and live in Isan.

I rent an apartment on Samui, so I won't have to pay this anyway...

I am not sure how many other people measure how good it is to live in a place by how much the garbage collection fee costs...

I lived in Samui about 5 years ago and paid about 200 baht for a whole year IIRC.. has something changed?

Right now in Nakhon Si Thammarat we pay 360 for a year, they also come three times a week - very good service it's a very clean town.

800 or even 600 a month sounds very wrong..

Wow, 600Baht a month for garbage collection?

I pay 20Baht a month.

Keep telling you people, Living in Issan is better than Koh Tao.

I collect garbage for my customers!!! I also pay their bills for them.

It is not 600 baht per house. (But I too agree with Mole )

I pay about that but I have about 5 houses as for moving to Esaan for a cheaper live style

Na

The fee is 30B for one house/shop in Nathon, but these are the only receipts I don´t keep. As long as I pay only once a month I thought there shouldn´t be a problem. One would think it´s the Tessaban´s responsibility to make sure they´re not cheated by their employees.

I have lived in Surin for the past 10 years or more. Rubbish (aka garbage) is collective at least once per week, often twice per week. And I always thought this was a free service included in the rates. Oh! We do not pay rates either. Tut! Tut!

The fee is 30B for one house/shop in Nathon, but these are the only receipts I don´t keep. As long as I pay only once a month I thought there shouldn´t be a problem. One would think it´s the Tessaban´s responsibility to make sure they´re not cheated by their employees.

That is what they were doing today. Checking on the cash collector.

I think that he works for the Tessaban, although I know that the garbage trucks are contractors. The money collector could just as easily work for them???

I lived in Samui about 5 years ago and paid about 200 baht for a whole year IIRC.. has something changed?

Right now in Nakhon Si Thammarat we pay 360 for a year, they also come three times a week - very good service it's a very clean town.

800 or even 600 a month sounds very wrong..

As longtom states later on - the fee on Samui is 30 baht a month for Thais. 60 baht a month for farangs. (We have a lot more rubbish - believe me.)

I pay more as I have a commercial licence. I can also deliver the garbage direct to the incinerator.

On Samui - the garbage is collected daily. Unfortunately, Samui is not very clean in some areas. This is mainly because of the large amounts of garbage with few resources to collect it. Unfortunately, the majority of people on Samui have a similar view to nomad. They do not pay - so limited resources for collecting.

Anyway - this was not supposed to be a 'how much to gather garbage thread' - I was hoping for a more of a 'what little scams have you come across' thread.

Wow, 600Baht a month for garbage collection?

I pay 20Baht a month.

Keep telling you people, Living in Issan is better than Koh Tao.

i'm sure heaps of things are cheaper up country but would i want to live there? not.a.chance.

I pay 30 baht / month.

THB 20 p.m collection everyday for us. Why is Samui charging 30/40 times as much for half the service?

Hope you get a refund???

I think many of us don't pay anything, I just put mine in the bins located on the road... and separate out recycling for those people who collect it, too...

THB 20 p.m collection everyday for us. Why is Samui charging 30/40 times as much for half the service?

Please read the previous posts. Thais on Samui pay 30 baht per month.

Just chuck all the garbage over your fence like the Thais do.

What is the 600B/800B a month thing?

Speak to Thai person about this and they will just be shaking their heads and grinning . . .

R

Couple years back I posted photos of my Thai neighbours but people here dismissed it.

Reckoned Burmese perhaps? (Really!!)

Nope. I can't afford to live in a walled farang compound. I live amongst ordinary Thai people - educated and with good jobs.

The tin-shed pics had mostly hotel workers living there.

None of these people have ever heard of paying money every month for garbage . . . ;-)

Attached again.

Every few weeks I go and collect all the crap that litters my soi and cart it of (cos I can't bear the sight of it or the stink when they burn it) and they all nod at me and smile. Crazy farang.

R

Well I suppose you have to give him credit for trying.