I have used Raja Tailor several times years ago, but not recently, and I thought the quality was very good. They have been around many years first on Soi 4 but they have now moved to Sukhumnvit near Soi 8.

These tailor shops survive exactly the same way that the thousands of empty massage parlours, meter-less taxis, restaurants, opticians, hairdressers, real estate agents and other such places survive. Rather than charge fair prices and be quite busy most of the time but make just a small profit on each job they prefer to charge absurdly high prices and do nothing most of the time and occasionally make a huge profit when some poor sucker bites.

There is nothing complicated about this at all.

Well observed and 100 % correct. This wheel will keep on turning as long as Farangs buy "original" Rolex watches for 5000 Bht, while sitting on their bar stool.

What did the snake say, after Eve bought an overpriced apple from the snake: "There is a sucker born every minute....................."

Cheers.

It's not just tailors. Pretty much every shopping mall you go to and see those smaller stores that sell clothing, bags, toys, etc.... they always seem to be empty. I was told that rent in the below average mall is around 30,000 baht a month. I sure wonder how these people make a profit after all expenses.