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NBTC makes 57.9 million from selling 16 “beautiful” phone numbers through auction

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6 hours ago, gdgbb said:

Why should the individual citizen spend their own hard earned money "improving the country, and getting it's people out of poverty", isn't that the government's responsibility?  Do you donate your money to the country?

 

Most of these idiots won't have 'earned' a single satang of their wealth. They're the kids of wealthy families who flaunt their wealth to the rest of us: http://www.fecielo.com/this-is-how-the-rich-chinese-kids-flaunt-their-wealth/

 

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12 hours ago, the guest said:

Everybody says to me Thais are poor, and I say you must be kidding. If they can spend money on phone numbers, then surely they can spend money improving the country, and getting it's people out of poverty.

Poverty, not my problem it's their own fault....

13 hours ago, jlwilliamsjr18 said:

P.T Barnum once said: "There's a sucker born every minute"

Actually, he never said that.

5 hours ago, fruitman said:

You go to the miracle grand in Laksi and have a look yourself, after that you'll eat your words.

No, I won't bother.  I won't because cars in Thailand don't have 9-digit registration  numbers and even if they did they wouldn't all be the same as you said they were.  You're posting nonsense.

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2 hours ago, Xircal said:

 

Most of these idiots won't have 'earned' a single satang of their wealth. They're the kids of wealthy families who flaunt their wealth to the rest of us: http://www.fecielo.com/this-is-how-the-rich-chinese-kids-flaunt-their-wealth/

 

 

How would you know what they've earned or otherwise?   Another fully reasonable comment keeping up the Thaivisa standard.  Could you explain rationally why they are "idiots"?  No?  I thought not.

 

Even wealthy families have at some stage had to earn it, it doesn't materialise out of thin air.

 

Obviously these buyers have to be rich to make these purchases but who are "the kids of wealthy families who flaunt their wealth to the rest of us" that you so enviously refer to?

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20 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

 

How would you know what they've earned or otherwise?   Another fully reasonable comment keeping up the Thaivisa standard.  Could you explain rationally why they are "idiots"?  No?  I thought not.

 

Even wealthy families have at some stage had to earn it, it doesn't materialise out of thin air.

 

 

Don't attempt to answer my questions for me.

 

Maybe you're one of these rich kids who care so little about others and think you can get away with murder just because your families are wealthy. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-red-bull-heir-and-inequality-in-thailand

 

The prick involved in this accident didn't even stop even though half the body of this your girl had been sliced off by the impact and landed on the passenger seat beside him: http://www.bestgore.com/murder/17-year-old-lao-girl-cut-in-half-speeding-porsche-drive-rich-thai/

 

These idiots don't have jobs and in the unlikely event their families lose all their money, won't ever have to work.

 

As for their wealthy families, that isn't the subject here: it's about their kids who fail to show compassion when they've just been responsible for many deaths, but because of their wealthy families, are unlikely to do any jail time in spite of the danger they cause to other road users: http://www.thephuketnews.com/honda-hit-and-text-girl-officially-off-the-hook-52261.php

 

I bought this number 867-5309 ask for Jenny.

17 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

Idiots? So they buy a phone number for six million. And in a year ot two sell it on for ten million. It can be looked on as an investment.

 

who's the idiot now?

 

14 hours ago, Xircal said:

 

Don't attempt to answer my questions for me.

 

Maybe you're one of these rich kids who care so little about others and think you can get away with murder just because your families are wealthy. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-red-bull-heir-and-inequality-in-thailand

 

The prick involved in this accident didn't even stop even though half the body of this your girl had been sliced off by the impact and landed on the passenger seat beside him: http://www.bestgore.com/murder/17-year-old-lao-girl-cut-in-half-speeding-porsche-drive-rich-thai/

 

These idiots don't have jobs and in the unlikely event their families lose all their money, won't ever have to work.

 

As for their wealthy families, that isn't the subject here: it's about their kids who fail to show compassion when they've just been responsible for many deaths, but because of their wealthy families, are unlikely to do any jail time in spite of the danger they cause to other road users: http://www.thephuketnews.com/honda-hit-and-text-girl-officially-off-the-hook-52261.php

 

"Don't attempt to answer my questions for me."

 

Erm...I wouldn't even dream of it, and I didn't.  What I did was ask you a couple of questions that you couldn't answer but you did post links to some old reports of no relevance to this thread, god knows why.  You also continued your bizarre, and obviously misinformed rhetoric and assertion that the people referred to in the OP were "idiots" who have never worked and would never have to. 

6 hours ago, gdgbb said:

"Don't attempt to answer my questions for me."

 

Erm...I wouldn't even dream of it, and I didn't.  What I did was ask you a couple of questions that you couldn't answer but you did post links to some old reports of no relevance to this thread, god knows why.  You also continued your bizarre, and obviously misinformed rhetoric and assertion that the people referred to in the OP were "idiots" who have never worked and would never have to. 

 

OK, instead of calling them 'idiots', lets name them scumbags. I would prefer something stronger, but the forum software will obfuscate it.

 

And you're the one who is bizarre, defending these cretins like you do.

23 hours ago, Xircal said:

 

OK, instead of calling them 'idiots', lets name them scumbags. I would prefer something stronger, but the forum software will obfuscate it.

 

And you're the one who is bizarre, defending these cretins like you do.

 

The question I was asking that you cannot answer was why are you calling them idiots, and now scumbags and cretins?  How do they deserve those intelligent descriptions?  That is what is bizarre.

idiots? the NBTC are geniuses. 

 

talk about selling air.

 

now the fun starts, we have the numbers, time to start calling them.

Edited by HooHaa

I wonder if these HiSo's considered they still have a pay a monthly phone bill (probably a couple thousand baht) with their "beautiful" phone numbers?   Sure hope they included that in their cost analysis of the "total" cost of the number.  :tongue:

 

 

 

On 11/29/2016 at 1:20 AM, Xircal said:

 

Don't attempt to answer my questions for me.

 

Maybe you're one of these rich kids who care so little about others and think you can get away with murder just because your families are wealthy. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-red-bull-heir-and-inequality-in-thailand

 

The prick involved in this accident didn't even stop even though half the body of this your girl had been sliced off by the impact and landed on the passenger seat beside him: http://www.bestgore.com/murder/17-year-old-lao-girl-cut-in-half-speeding-porsche-drive-rich-thai/

 

These idiots don't have jobs and in the unlikely event their families lose all their money, won't ever have to work.

 

As for their wealthy families, that isn't the subject here: it's about their kids who fail to show compassion when they've just been responsible for many deaths, but because of their wealthy families, are unlikely to do any jail time in spite of the danger they cause to other road users: http://www.thephuketnews.com/honda-hit-and-text-girl-officially-off-the-hook-52261.php

 

 

sounds like somebody has a chip on their shoulder. 

i personally was not aware the red bull heir,  Porsche boy or honda girl were in the bidding.

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  • 7 months later...

This is just SAD

On 11/28/2016 at 5:10 PM, Thechook said:

Is it really?  never seen an auction of telephone numbers in Australia 

Maybe not phone numbers however every person can nominate their own vehicle registration number for a fee. I have no idea of the number of these 'vanity' plates on the road however it is quite a lot.

 

When you have a superstitious population like Thais (actually most Asians) money is always involved.  Just look at the frenzy around lottery numbers.

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