jamie2009 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Big C are currently selling AIS Mobiles for 23 baht, there is a voucher on the till roll. I went to Big C in South Pattaya to get one for my GF's Mother. I took my GF's ID Card. After standing there and being stared at for several minutes an Assistant approached me, well he only come as the rest were ignoring me and saying, farang, farang. I showed him my Voucher and my GF's ID Card. Nope she has to be present, ok fair enough, I showed my Passport, nope phones only for Thai people. Hey I spend thousands of Baht in that store every month, I was going to ask for Supervisor to ask why but unfortunately didn't have time. We went back the next day, I still wanted to speak to a Supervisor but my GF said don't cause any hassle, true what they say Thais don't like confrontation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goanna Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Do you look like the pic on the ID? I suspect not. Good pickup by the assistant. A female impersonator trying to get a cheap deal. I hope there are some other funny stories on here today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Give your GF's mother 23 bath problem solved, no he wants to speak to the manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew2027 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 The Promo is for Thai citizens.. That's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlQaholic Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 This post must be a Joke.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Op, sooner you realise we are merely tolerated, don't really figure in the system and are more like secondary citizens (if that) , the smoother daily life will be. I found stuff like this annoying at first, but just don't care now. But stuff is rarely given away here and if you were to dig deeper into this deal, I bet there'd be a catch... like locked phone and expensive per-minute rates, for example. Don't sweat it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 I love it when 'pretties' are standing at the entrance to a store giving away free samples, and as soon as they see a farang (me) approach their outstretched arm is quickly withdrawn. What pathetic people they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKKdreaming Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 umm 23 baht........what kind of phone was it ? and all Big Cs or ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie2009 Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 14 minutes ago, BKKdreaming said: umm 23 baht........what kind of phone was it ? and all Big Cs or ????? AIS Locked Phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie2009 Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 41 minutes ago, AlQaholic said: This post must be a Joke.... In what respect please, explain ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 22 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said: I love it when 'pretties' are standing at the entrance to a store giving away free samples, and as soon as they see a farang (me) approach their outstretched arm is quickly withdrawn. What pathetic people they are. That's just you. Maybe shower more often. They always offer me the samples and flyers and I have to go to the bother of refusing them. Just last week I tried to refuse a sample and it was stuffed into my shopping bag anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Laycock Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Are you sure it wasn't the toy section you saw this great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie2009 Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 13 hours ago, Goanna said: Do you look like the pic on the ID? I suspect not. Good pickup by the assistant. A female impersonator trying to get a cheap deal. I hope there are some other funny stories on here today. I was buying on behalf of my GF not trying to impersonate her, I offered my own Passport but that was when I was told the deal was for Thai person only. it was a matter of principle nought to do with the 23 baht, I do all my shopping there.yet I am not included in the special offers, Tesco here we come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuk23 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 In reality it's 423 baht but they put 400 in time on your phone, you can only use the company making the promotion, and yes Thai national only, and my girlfriend's daughter say's they have had many problems with the battery, witch is probably why they are getting rid of this model as fast as they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubman Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 2 hours ago, Canuk23 said: In reality it's 423 baht but they put 400 in time on your phone, you can only use the company making the promotion, and yes Thai national only, and my girlfriend's daughter say's they have had many problems with the battery, witch is probably why they are getting rid of this model as fast as they can. It must be a good way for Samsung to get ride of their Note 7 with the dodgy batteries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keesters Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 21 hours ago, Matthew2027 said: The Promo is for Thai citizens.. That's it. Racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDemon88 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Next time you give someone 100bath (Thais) and ask them to buy for you. You get 1 , he/she get one and both be happy. Use brain and think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadee Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I love bargains (who doesn't?) but in reality, any phone that cheap is bound to be more hassle than it's worth. I once bought a 'Soniore' branded phone for 299baht in Tesco and it was bad in ways I didn't even know were possible: terrible battery life, quiet speaker, poor reception, 'dead' pixels on the screen after 2 months. In some ways it was astonishing 'value' as it had two SIM slots, a micro SD card, camera, radio and heaphones, but pretty much unusuable after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Keesters said: Racist. Nothing racist at all about his comment. Hes merely stating a fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Keesters said: Racist. No, us farang 'millionaires' don't need a giveaway phone.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keesters Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1 hour ago, ratcatcher said: Nothing racist at all about his comment. Hes merely stating a fact. Its the promo that's racist not him......I thought of being more specific but didn't as I assumed everyone would have enough intelligence to understand. Sorry that you didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzmurray Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I would say that it IS for foreigners too, seeing as they are using a foreigner to help advertise it. http://investor.ais.co.th/news.html/id/545946/group/newsroom_press Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanyaburi Mac Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I tried yesterday, pulled out my pink ID card for foreigners, one gal thought that'd be OK, the counter boss looked at it, nope, no can do, kop. FYI, TRUE has a similar deal, baht 90, ask for it, believe it's OK for foreigners. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Keesters said: Its the promo that's racist not him......I thought of being more specific but didn't as I assumed everyone would have enough intelligence to understand. Sorry that you didn't. Thank you for your explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanyaburi Mac Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Re the TRUE baht 90 phone, picked one up an hour ago, used my Thai non-ID card, no problem. Locked to TRUE so can't use it for Lao travel with a Lao SIM, but fine for Thailand as a loaner. Has the essentials, phone and camera. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 We went back the next day So did you get a phone? TrueMove H was offering free phones for a while, but you did have to trade in any old mobile phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKKdreaming Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 On 9/23/2016 at 11:07 PM, Thanyaburi Mac said: Re the TRUE baht 90 phone, picked one up an hour ago, used my Thai non-ID card, no problem. Locked to TRUE so can't use it for Lao travel with a Lao SIM, but fine for Thailand as a loaner. Has the essentials, phone and camera. Mac was it 90 baht out the door or did you have to put phone credit on it too ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie2009 Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share Posted September 26, 2016 It was 93 baht, 70 baht for sim as her Mother didn't have an AIS sim,no credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKASA Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 It is only 23 baht - which is part of the 23 years of Big C - you only have to top up 70 baht to get the first 100 baht of the 400 baht over 4 months from AIS. and add another 70 baht each of those months to keep it going for a total of 400 free baht of voice. If you already have an AIS sim such as the one the wife had in her dual phone you can simple install that a run with the that (it worked) - is it locked out of other systems? - don't know - didn't try, but might work - Big C is giving the phones AIS only adds the sim - anyone with an extra true or dtac sim could just try it - does not seem to be locked. Anyone find a manual for this thing and how to use the settings? She wanted to put her ais sim in another phone anyway so this worked great as that number was just used for voice and the keypad works better then smart phone if you are having to press numbers during a call. In addition when the AIS sim is in her dual smart phone about twice a week after getting what seems to be un related sms the phone gets switched to AIS data (i.e. slammed by ais) and they start sucking baht out of the AIS package - rather then the data plan from the dtac sim in the one slot - had to keep an eye on it all the time. Told her to trash the ais sim and transfer the number, but she wants this keypad for making calls on that number she has had for 20 years. PS I had the same problem with AIS which I solved by trashing the sim as I didn't really need dual sim anyway - it was just my old pre smart phone number I had and despite the ais tower being closer to home the dtac works better for data in this area anyway. You always have to show ID to get a sim card - someone must think it means Thai only - it does not. A drivers lic or passport works too. The ID is for the sim not the phone, but you know how messages get translated in Thai - that location is likely operating in don't screw up mode and assume Thai only because told to check ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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