always get 2nd 3 rd 4 th advice

[opalred]

every time ask advice always get wrong advice in travel directions

or the worst happened wife was told to get high pressure valve for a gas cooker it blew up in here face when she turned it on

burning her face and hair

they will not say i donnt know

wife calls it they want to show power and say anything

[HooHaa]

thanks for sharing

[nonb]

Next time buy scg safety valve, it costs me less than thousand baht. You don't wanna play with fire.

[CharlieH]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

[Stan42]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

HEY I'm an expert!... What were we talking about again?

[bamukloy]

Yes; they are to proud to say they dont know, but sometimes wrong directions are also due to Thais forgetting English words for left and right or confusing the two.

If a Thai gives directions in English its best to confirm by repeating what they said in Thai.

I was at a bank getting a replacement card recently, lady says 750 baht

..arai na?

..seven hunded fitty baht..

..arai na? Jet roy ha sip?

She then wrote 150 on a piece of paper and shows me..

ok no plobrem!!

[BudRight]

CharlieH is right.

You cannot substitute quality for quantity of advice. If you ask 100 idiots you will hear 200 idiotic views.

Find one genuine expert, ask them and listen well.

But this reminds me of an old story.

“Give me a one-handed economist,” demanded a frustrated American president. “All my economists say, ‘on the one hand...on the other...'”.

Edit: I meant quantity for quality. My point is better made for the error.

[h90]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

sure it is better, because you get tons of answers and some will be right. You learn the right vocabulary for the things you seek and can than google the rest.

TV helped me a lot in the past

[weegee]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

sure it is better, because you get tons of answers and some will be right. You learn the right vocabulary for the things you seek and can than google the rest.

TV helped me a lot in the past

I agree....out of every hundred replies to posts you get....there will be sound advice somewhere in there.

But as the op is about gas valves....Dont trust what a thai in a shop tells you, they just want a sale so they can go back to the Iphone ....search further

[h90]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

sure it is better, because you get tons of answers and some will be right. You learn the right vocabulary for the things you seek and can than google the rest.

TV helped me a lot in the past

I agree....out of every hundred replies to posts you get....there will be sound advice somewhere in there.

But as the op is about gas valves....Dont trust what a thai in a shop tells you, they just want a sale so they can go back to the Iphone ....search further

Golden salesguy rule:

If you don't even understand the question, say yes and hope that was what the customer wanted to hear

[GuestHouse]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

That said,

Some of the very best advice I have ever been given has come from total strangers on the internet.

A former member of Thaivisa who took the trouble to advise my wife and I on how to go about buying a plot of land from the bank, the pitfalls and tricks to help the purchase go the way we wanted, not to be railroaded by the bank, has become perhaps my best friend in Thailand.

There are some genuinely good people offering genuinely good advice, here on TVF and elsewhere.

The trick is, the person asking for advice needs to:

• be able to sort the good advice from the bad (or sometimes downright nasty)
• be aware that advice which agrees with the view of the person asking for advice is not necessarily good advice (and visa versa).
• be aware that the ability to learn anything is almost entirely dependent on the ability of the person asking for advice to listen and learn (see my signature line).

And of course when ignoring good advice, the reason is usually down to the most dangerous lie of all - the lie we tell ourselves.

[JLCrab]

Particularly when asked to give visa related advice in Thailand, I say that, if I haven't done it myself, then it is just a guess.

[JohnnyJazz]

and what makes you think an anonymous internet forum will be any better.

Plenty of "experts" around here.

CharlieH is right.

You cannot substitute quality for quantity of advice. If you ask 100 idiots you will hear 200 idiotic views.

Find one genuine expert, ask them and listen well.

But this reminds me of an old story.

“Give me a one-handed economist,” demanded a frustrated American president. “All my economists say, ‘on the one hand...on the other...'”.

Edit: I meant quantity for quality. My point is better made for the error.

Don't agree with the both of you. Anonymity doesn't matter and experts are the people I trust the less. As someone point out what's important is the number of answer from various sources. If I can use an analogy you get a "3D" answer instead of a flat 2D answer if you have a single source. Furthermore wrong advises can be spotted more easily, call it "peer review" if you like.

Additional bonus, as h90 pointed out "You learn the right vocabulary for the things you seek and can than google the rest.

[slapout]

i have seen a lot of experts make mistakes but fessed up and no one begrudged them. sorry, dont know, never tried, seldomn hurt standing except with those too dumb to understand the problem even when a solution has been given them. i always look for a pretty one to ask first anyway, found some pretty smart lookers that way, even a few blonds

[Sawan Chan 7]

Yes; they are to proud to say they dont know, but sometimes wrong directions are also due to Thais forgetting English words for left and right or confusing the two.

If a Thai gives directions in English its best to confirm by repeating what they said in Thai.

I was at a bank getting a replacement card recently, lady says 750 baht

..arai na?

..seven hunded fitty baht..

..arai na? Jet roy ha sip?

She then wrote 150 on a piece of paper and shows me..

ok no plobrem!!

They scam a lot of farang that way saying they get insurance which they don't tell you doesn't apply to non-Thais, well at Krung Thai anyway.