Thread: Have you been ripped off in Thailand?

Restaurant - Yes, if the rip is considered below par food
Stall type food vendor - no, can't say I've eaten from 'em more than once or thrice.
Bar bill - nope, (watered down drinks count?)
Bar Girls - nah! Always a bargain compared to what we get "back home"
Petrol station - no
Builder - no even though I've built a couple of houses here, but I'm a builder by trade
Police - Yes if bribing the foks counts as a rip (I see it as a time saving no aggro bonus!)
Clothes shop - no
Taxi, motorbike samlor etc - no
Beach vendor - no

Been there, done it, got done everywhere!

No 'select all' button?

I was impressed by the copper that locked my wheel up last week.
He took me back to the station to pay my fine and then gave me a lift back to my bike to remove the lock.
never once did he suggest that I should give him the money under the table (that's a first for me).
During our trip back to the station, he locked 3 cars in a no nonsense sort of way and wasn't listening to the owner's complaints.

maybe they are actually doing something about the corruption thing.

not so much ripped off, but had my passport cut into pieces once by this guy that runs a motorcyc hire business

Mr T looks on helpless as passport is shredded by 90 lb farang weakling...

Sorry but you forgot the box for "other farangs"

I have had more problems with lying cnut foreigners than any Thai. And I know plenty others who feel the same

^ same here, I was also been robbed by farangs (English teachers and the like) posing as professionals

I clicked every box but two of them on that list, Petrol station and Builder, but thats only because I have never built anything.

Not many beach vendors in Bangkok or Nan...

The poll should have a 'Landlords' option.

The only time I have been ripped off.

ticked all the boxes but couldnt find the wife box

^Is that a double meaning?

Just about every time that you buy anything that says MADE IN THAILAND, you have taken it in the shorts if you plan on using what ever you have bought and expect it to last longer than a few times.

^
No problem so far.
Some of the cheap Chinese stuff is crap though.

Well, Thais get ripped off here as well,so I would say that the average farang has had one planted fair and square up the shitter...at one time or another.

I was told Thai women were sub-servient (sp?)

I was ripped!

Oh, and every time I go in a so-called 5-star hotel and pay over 100 Baht for a fucking coffee I'm ripped. (which could also apply to Starfucks, but I don't use their services)

Don't blame ya none, I wouldn't use Starbucks even if I was in Seattle.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Just about every time that you buy anything that says MADE IN THAILAND, you have taken it in the shorts if you plan on using what ever you have bought and expect it to last longer than a few times.

Unless it's clothing, which I've found to be excellent.

Originally Posted by Lily

The poll should have a 'Landlords' option.

I agree. Especially the Thai-Chinese.

Originally Posted by William

pay over 100 Baht for fucking a coffee I'm ripped. (which could also apply to Starfucks, but I don't use their services)

Doesn't that hurt?

i wouldnt recommend it with mcdonalds coffee anyway.

^ you've been ripped off Slim boy, hotel windows and all that.....

Is there an option for KW lending money to other expats....?

Landlords

Thai Chinese bitch once tried to fuck me for 60,000

Her eventual gain was 14000, but I'll never forgive her for the barefaced dishonesty.

Time will tell, but paint stripper over her Mercedes is growing nearer as we speak.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

paint stripper over her Mercedes is growing nearer as we speak.

Hey, come on! Thats not setting a very good example to your fellow Police volunteers