15 hours ago, gdgbb said:

 

If you want to avoid the problems that you foresee happening to you, maybe you should choose where you drink more carefully.  In Soi 5 I'd suggest that you won't go far wrong with the excellent Gulliver's.

 

Haha...you obviously didn't read this post before the mods deleted the name of the bar.

17 hours ago, Saastrajaa said:

 In fact, I've found many [honest] Thai wait staff and cashiers will take it upon themselves to hold up the bill and say, "I'm receiving a 1,000 baht bill" before I can even get the words out.

 

i was going to mention this when i read your first post but i got distracted with some other things.  is it possible that some farangs try to pull the same scam (pay with 500 and claim paid with a 1000) ?  i just wonder who got them to start this practice (which is a good one !! the waitress, not the scam).  i frequented a place where my bill would get padded with a couple extra drinks.  the waitress ladies knew all about the scam and i don't think they got a cut.  once i got burned, i knew about it and would reject the drink bill and the waitress would say  'sorry, i no do'.  i noticed the leader of the scam at that place moved on to another place. 

funny, looks like the name got out !!  of course it was pretty obvious as i can't think of another place that people go on soi 5.

40 minutes ago, buick said:

funny, looks like the name got out !!  of course it was pretty obvious as i can't think of another place that people go on soi 5.

 

They'll be deleting the name again in 1...2...3...  

 

But what I find hilarious is the dufus who thought he was being smart saying people should drink in more "reputable" places, and then he names the exact questionable place the whole thread was about in the first place!

So the stupid question for a newbie is.... Does this type of scam happen a lot in Thailand?

12 hours ago, Saastrajaa said:

 

Haha...you obviously didn't read this post before the mods deleted the name of the bar.

we all know now then haha

12 hours ago, Saastrajaa said:

 

Haha...you obviously didn't read this post before the mods deleted the name of the bar.

 

Obviously.  But it wasn't hard to work it out.

9 hours ago, Saastrajaa said:

 

They'll be deleting the name again in 1...2...3...  

 

But what I find hilarious is the dufus who thought he was being smart saying people should drink in more "reputable" places, and then he names the exact questionable place the whole thread was about in the first place!

wakey wakey, he was fishing 

9 hours ago, Saastrajaa said:

 

They'll be deleting the name again in 1...2...3...  

 

But what I find hilarious is the dufus who thought he was being smart saying people should drink in more "reputable" places, and then he names the exact questionable place the whole thread was about in the first place!

 

I'm far from being a dufus but you would qualify for missing my (sarcastic) point, there is no other place that it could have been.

1 minute ago, gdgbb said:

 

I'm far from being a dufus but you would qualify for missing my (sarcastic) point, there is no other place that it could have been.

forgive him mate, his arrogance has made him look an idiot, how stupid can you get,lol

4 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

 

I'm far from being a dufus but you would qualify for missing my (sarcastic) point, there is no other place that it could have been.

Hahahahahahahaha and the 3 idiots who liked his post, i'm busting a gut here.

2 hours ago, what2do said:

So the stupid question for a newbie is.... Does this type of scam happen a lot in Thailand?

 

No, not often, but it can happen if you're careless.  The safeguard is to not pay with 1,000s, get them changed elsewhere before you put yourself in a position that could get you taken advantage of.

2 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

 

I'm far from being a dufus but you would qualify for missing my (sarcastic) point, there is no other place that it could have been.

 

Indeed pal, apart from that iffy upstairs place over Foodland with the pool tables and many dodgy Africans which used to have that lame Elvis show, the makeshift Heineken beer garden in the Bel Aire car park, or the sit down bar at the Seafood Centre on the corner where else is there that it could be? especially as all the above mentioned on Soi 5 are now defunct (I think) apart from maybe one of the massage places down the little sub-sois where you could get a beer while you waited before/after your massage. but a nip to Foodland to grab you a beer was the peak of their drinks service.

 

I find it a little odd as the place under discussion has always seemed one of the 'safer' better run places in that area, given that tourists seem to make up 90%+ of their customers that they'd run a scam seems very odd.....

7 minutes ago, sotonowl said:

forgive him mate, his arrogance has made him look an idiot, how stupid can you get,lol

 

Forgive?  Nah, don't think so, don't do forgiveness.  Forgiveness would be wasted on the terminally slow, anyway.

2 minutes ago, Merylhighground said:

 

Indeed pal, apart from that iffy upstairs place over Foodland with the pool tables and many dodgy Africans which used to have that lame Elvis show, the makeshift Heineken beer garden in the Bel Aire car park, or the sit down bar at the Seafood Centre on the corner where else is there that it could be? especially as all the above mentioned on Soi 5 are now defunct (I think) apart from maybe one of the massage places down the little sub-sois where you could get a beer while you waited before/after your massage. but a nip to Foodland to grab you a beer was the peak of their drinks service.

 

I find it a little odd as the place under discussion has always seemed one of the 'safer' better run places in that area, given that tourists seem to make up 90%+ of their customers that they'd run a scam seems very odd.....

That place above Foodland was one of the Country Roads group of bars and I used to play there regularly, one of the reasons being that there were no Africans in there, certainly not in the couple of years before it's closure.  There was a very good explanation for that when I asked the staff why (even though the disreputables would congregate at the shitty bar near the stairs and in the Amari beer garden )...drinks prices were from 250 baht for them in Country Roads.

 

I agree with your last comment.

I was in Makro last week. My bill was 524B, so I handed over 1024B (a thousand, a twenty and four coins). The male cashier looked at it, rang up 524B as paid, put it in the till and closed the till. He then handed me my receipt but no change. I said "What about my change?" and he just opened the drawer and gave me 500B without question. I have no idea whether it was a deliberate theft attempt or whether the guy was just stupid, but it must have been one or the other.

 

Hardly a week goes by here without someone making some sort of "mistake" with money, though it certainly isnt always to their benefit so I suppose that stupidity does play a large part in it.

43 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

I was in Makro last week. My bill was 524B, so I handed over 1024B (a thousand, a twenty and four coins). The male cashier looked at it, rang up 524B as paid, put it in the till and closed the till. He then handed me my receipt but no change. I said "What about my change?" and he just opened the drawer and gave me 500B without question. I have no idea whether it was a deliberate theft attempt or whether the guy was just stupid, but it must have been one or the other.

 

Hardly a week goes by here without someone making some sort of "mistake" with money, though it certainly isnt always to their benefit so I suppose that stupidity does play a large part in it.

They are 1/2 asleep, I would be if I was to sit there 8 hours a day.

 

When I get breakfast out in town, I always order tea since I don't drink coffee. About 1 out of 10 times I am served coffee which is promptly changed when I tell them I ordered tea.

 

It can happen they try to shaft you as they did with OP, especially at dodgy places and can turn violent if the situation escalates and 99% will pay, but not the keyboard warriors off-course.

On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Laughing Gravy said:

Have a nice day and Great New Year to You. I genuinely am not causing a problem.

 

Well what are you on here for then??

 

I don't know......there's always one that's got to be different.

19 hours ago, guzzi850m2 said:

They are 1/2 asleep, I would be if I was to sit there 8 hours a day.

 

Is the job of cashier in Europe or the US any easier/less boring? I doubt it, but I never experienced the same level of errors in European shops/restaurants as I do here.

Sadly, you have to keep your wits about you... try a new place, have bless in P tang..

20 hours ago, KittenKong said:

I was in Makro last week. My bill was 524B, so I handed over 1024B (a thousand, a twenty and four coins). The male cashier looked at it, rang up 524B as paid, put it in the till and closed the till. He then handed me my receipt but no change. I said "What about my change?" and he just opened the drawer and gave me 500B without question. I have no idea whether it was a deliberate theft attempt or whether the guy was just stupid, but it must have been one or the other.

 

Hardly a week goes by here without someone making some sort of "mistake" with money, though it certainly isnt always to their benefit so I suppose that stupidity does play a large part in it.

 

   Do not confuse them by trying to give them the right coinage  money 

Most all..ok all, do not know the method to count back change...

 

I go to the register, clock in my own sale, then give myself the correct change.

 

Can't be too careful with these Thai staff eh.

Is it a bar full of lilliputians and brobdingnagians? If so, I can believe it?

 

Standard procedure in thailand is never to pay with a thousie…..just a fivie if you must…I only keep a thousie on me to pay for the nights festivities the next morning.

 

And if you are paying with one hold it up and loudly say thousand baht until they acknowledge

On 12/27/2016 at 6:01 PM, Thainess said:

You were very lucky. I've been here for over 10 years and I get ripped off almost every day. I now don't even notice it and consider it just an unavoidable fact of life. Gotta be some of the most dishonest people in the world living here.

How do you get ripped off every day, honest question. Yes I have been ripped a few times but not every day

Yeah in the US they just rip off your credit card number.  It has happened to me 3 times there, never here.  One guy got his BMW repaired for $5,000.  Another was airline tickets for $4,000.  I was told by the CC companies they do nothing unless it is over $10,000.

I have never had a problem here with a CC or cash.  In fact, a couple of times they gave me to much change, never shorted.  

On 12/27/2016 at 6:01 PM, Thainess said:

You were very lucky. I've been here for over 10 years and I get ripped off almost every day. I now don't even notice it and consider it just an unavoidable fact of life. Gotta be some of the most dishonest people in the world living here.

Are you hanging around with Ladyboys? 

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

Yeah in the US they just rip off your credit card number.  It has happened to me 3 times there, never here.  One guy got his BMW repaired for $5,000.  Another was airline tickets for $4,000.  I was told by the CC companies they do nothing unless it is over $10,000.

I have never had a problem here with a CC or cash.  In fact, a couple of times they gave me to much change, never shorted.  

 

so you paid up?

 

Just pay attention...

On ‎12‎/‎26‎/‎2016 at 11:53 PM, Laughing Gravy said:

I don't doubt it has happened. What I would question is why it has taken you 14 years to join Thai Visa forum?

Perhaps he's been living his life without the mean spirited comments on TVF......perhaps