t0oL1 Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 Bank transfers so pricey and so much information needed. Boys don't know their address or unwilling to send. Swift code. Any easy options? Paypal might not work outside of my country. Search forum not good. Quote
t0oL1 Posted August 21, 2019 Author Posted August 21, 2019 $460 final tip 12 days ago.- "need money to eat" yesterday. his actual birthday in three days. he'd damn cute and MADE my whole vacation. says hes now working at Coral tomorrow- what is Coral? Quote
joshhb Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 Paypal is good, but slow. GBP to THB takes 5 working days. Quote
t0oL1 Posted August 21, 2019 Author Posted August 21, 2019 Paypal/us says send money to USA only ttps://www.paypal.com/us/home It's free to send money to friends and family in the U.S. when you use your bank account or PayPal Cash or PayPal Cash Plus balance maybe just charge fee... thanks I'll let him know Quote
Londoner Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 I use my bank, Lloyds, to Bangkok Bank. £10....but the exchange rate is poor. Four working days. A reliable service. Quote
ceejay Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 Many expats use Transferwise. They do charge (quite low) fees, but these are offset by better than average exchange rates. https://transferwise.com/gb/send-money/send-money-to-thailand Quote
Boy69 Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 Western Union is immediately done and the boy can take it from one of their branches . From my experience if you send once endless requests for more money will follow . Forget about the boy and move on it will save you money and troubles. vinapu, fedssocr and kokopelli 3 Quote
t0oL1 Posted August 21, 2019 Author Posted August 21, 2019 now I am thinking he was offering a sex show. he had Facebook video called briefly and shirtless. I just mimed -I did not have a microphone.. He had actually caught me online reading/translating his posts for hours. It was nice to hear his squeaky voice. Quote
speedoo1 Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 If you don't mind the fees, use Western Union. Easy, swift and all thai guys seem to very familiar with Western Union. As stated by previous poster, you carefully need consider if you want to venture into sending this guy money - I can assure you that it will not take long until he "has no money for eat", "I need money to go see doctor" or "I want to buy XXXX ( I have even heard "motorbike" before ) Quote
Guest Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 6 hours ago, t0oL1 said: $460 final tip 12 days ago.- "need money to eat" yesterday. Warning: Some boys are good at spotting suckers & extracting money from them. Quote
Nasherich Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 I used Western Union but got fed up with very poor service, especially if you use their branch network in the UK. Bank to bank tends to be very expensive. Lately I've used Ria and found their service excellent. If anyone is interested, i can supply a referral code which has some mutual monetary benefit. https://mbsy.co/wV9qt However, much cheaper not to send money at all, as others have said. vinapu 1 Quote
vinapu Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 12 hours ago, Boy69 said: From my experience if you send once endless requests for more money will follow . Forget about the boy and move on it will save you money and troubles. +1 Quote
vinapu Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 7 hours ago, z909 said: Warning: Some boys are good at spotting suckers & extracting money from them. 5 hours ago, Nasherich said: However, much cheaper not to send money at all, as others have said. wise, wise words Quote
abidismaili Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 Many moneyboys have no job (besides working in the bar). In low season I tend to believe them when they need help with rent or food. Or is every request really a lie you think? I have about 3 boys I help now and then. Reluctantly. But it is also not easy to say no if you believe their request to be genuine. Are most requests not genuine ? Also the first post makes a remark about how boys do not know their address many times. I have the same experience and find it very strange. How can you not know the address of the place you live in? Also doesn't the Thai government need to communicate sometimes with their citizens ? Like sending voting card, bill for municipal taxes, etc. Quote
Boy69 Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 It's not relevant if boys' requests are genuine or not the important issue is if you are willing to be a walking ATM for lazy boys whom are not willing to work at normal job in low season they certainly can work on temporary jobs and earn some money till the high season but it's more easy for them to extract money from naive falangs. vinapu 1 Quote
Londoner Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 There may well be temporary jobs in the cities but work remains hard to come by in the north and north-east. Quote
Guest Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 The unemployment rate in Thailand is about 1%. Which means almost anyone can get a job. However, getting "free" money sent by bank transfer from several foreigners is much easier than working. Quote
vinapu Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 6 hours ago, Boy69 said: It's not relevant if boys' requests are genuine or not the important issue is if you are willing to be a walking ATM for lazy boys whom are not willing to work at normal job in low season they certainly can work on temporary jobs and earn some money till the high season but it's more easy for them to extract money from naive falangs. I'd not call them lazy , enterprising rather. I don't blame them for those requests, after all most of them are poor by our standards and often by Thai standards as well. All of us rather make twice as much in half demanding job than we have so we can't blame guys for taking easy highway. It's up to us to succumb to requests or by-pass them. as much as I sympathize with their plight I'm in reject camp , mainly because I tend to pay them generously when using their company when there and quite often they can make more money off me but they rather have fun somewhere else. ( "I can't do long time because I go with friends , I can't come at 2 p.m. because I need to go to gym , I need to go at 6 am because of traffic " being most common type of excuses ). At end of day this comes easy for me as I usually don't share my contact with guys and few times I did , yes sooner or later I was invited to support their lifestyle one way or another. reader, Boy69, fedssocr and 1 other 4 Quote
kokopelli Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 12 hours ago, abidismaili said: Also the first post makes a remark about how boys do not know their address many times. I have the same experience and find it very strange. How can you not know the address of the place you live in? Very easy! I have lived in the same condo for some years and still cannot find the exact address! Someone living temporarily in a rented/shared room somewhere may have no reason to know the postal address. Communication is by email, social media, Line, SMS, etc and no reason to know the postal mail address. They do know their "home address" as on their official ID. 1moRussian 1 Quote
abidismaili Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 20 hours ago, kokopelli said: Very easy! I have lived in the same condo for some years and still cannot find the exact address! Someone living temporarily in a rented/shared room somewhere may have no reason to know the postal address. Communication is by email, social media, Line, SMS, etc and no reason to know the postal mail address. They do know their "home address" as on their official ID. You live in a condo and don't know the address of your apartment? I will understand if it is temproary (like for holiday) but if you are living in Pattaya permanently, then aren't you curious what your address is? You never order something on Amazon? Name me one other country where local citizens have no idea of the adress of the house they live in? Quote
vinapu Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 2 hours ago, abidismaili said: Name me one other country where local citizens have no idea of the adress of the house they live in? Burkina Faso Quote
abidismaili Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, vinapu said: Burkina Faso Ok. You do wonder if the mail man knows it. Anyone has experience in Thailand with orders from webshops? Do they make it to your local address in time? Or the mail man also has totally no idea about street names, soi names, house numbers? Quote
Boy69 Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 The address system in Thailand is very complicated and confusing no wonder many locals have no idea what is their address. Quote
abidismaili Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 Just now, Boy69 said: The address system in Thailand is very complicated and confusing no wonder many locals have no idea what is their address. Then as a consequence local webshops have a bad time in Thailand, no one can order online because the package won't arrive (the customer doesn't know his address and if he does it is still a big unknown if the package will arrive). The digital economy still has to take off then in Thailand? Quote
kokopelli Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 3 hours ago, abidismaili said: You never order something on Amazon? No. Abidismali, do you live in Thailand? Quote
