dave111223

We have a sporting goods company in Thailand, and have been in business for about 5 years with Paypal as the primary payment processor.

We do any where from $10,000 - $40,000 USD per month through them, probably averages about $20K.  We even have a Paypal Thai sales rep. that calls us from time to time and says how happy they are to be in business with us, and how can they "help us grow" etc..

Then out of the blue we get a 1 page form letter email that basically says "Your account is closed, your money is frozen, remove any reference to Paypal from your website".  The account had about $5000 in it at the time of freeze (luckily is wasn't more as we have been foolish enough to leave up to $15K stilling in there sometimes).

We finally manage to get a hold of our Thai rep. person and they tell us the account is closed, because "they [Paypal reviews department in China] think the products are fake" and their reason for this assumption is "Your prices seem too cheap"!  That's is, they did no other research, they did not contact the brand in question to validate their assumption, and certainly didn't contact us with their concerns.

We have now sent them purchase invoices showing that the products were purchased from t6he officially licensed distibutor in Thailand (absolutely showing they are not fake)...and they are "reviewing the account".

Whether the account is unfrozen or not I'm exploring the options of taken legal account against them.  To recover frozen funds, lost sales, damaged business image etc...

Is it even possible to sue an international company from within Thailand?

I'd be interested to know if anyone can suggest a lawyer in Thailand that might handle these kind of claims.  And what the costs involved might be.

It's easy to find lots of information about sueing Paypal in the US, but nothing when it comes to Thailand.

I think it's worth considering as this is not a small dispute; with the frozen money, lost sales etc...it could easily justify a claim of over 1Miilion THB

Sure they have a "Policy" which basically says "We can kill you, burn you, and then piss on your corpse if we want", but I've read a lot of cases of people (all be it in the US) having legal success against Paypal.

I'm looking to get satellite TV hooked up.  I want to be able to see premier league matches.  Some movie channels or discovery channel would be nice too.

Is there anything else apart from Truevision that offers this?  I just plain don't like True, they seem dishonest to the core and i'd prefer something else?

For example they show this pricing for the Gold Package on their website:

But when you actually call them up this is not the real price.  The real price is 1568baht, and additional box is 432baht...wtf!  Not to mention that HD is another 290 on top of this.

I'm building a house through a full service house building company.

We have just started and already there have been several "extra costs" above the signed contract.  These costs have all been kind of gray-area as the contract is not really clear on these issues.  For example they decided they actually wanted to put longer piles, or they had only included cold water taps (despite including hot water piping in the build).

I feel i've been pretty amiable and paid these costs without much fuss; as I felt there was reasonable doubt; I also know that if I want extra stuff installed (extra plug here, extra light here) i know i'll have to pay more for this.

However they have now said the deck area needs to be structured differently and it will cost more (they planned the stucture, all I did was tell them the size).  We have a clear layout of where the deck is and how much it costs.  The money is fairly insignificant (a few thounsand baht) but I'm worried that if i agree to pay this it will set a precedent that i will pay extra for anything ("oops we needed more concrete, pay more", "oops we need another roof beam, pay more"...etc...this is exactly why we used a full service builder so that we wouldn't get sucked into some kind of unknown money pitt situation.

I basically said "Either build the deck for the quoted contract price, or don't build the deck at all".  It seems like they are inclined to take the "Don't build it at all" option; which is a pain for me as I then need to find someone else to do the deck later.

Would you either:

A) Cave to their demands, set a precedent of paying extra that could potentially cost a lot more as the build goes on.

B ) Stick to your guns, but end up with a pain in the ass finding someone else to build a deck; and maybe I can't find anyone with a similar deck price.

Does anyone know if there is a translation company within the Chaengwattana government/immigration building?

Or is the closest place the translation company across the street?

When I try to make an appointment through the embassy website:
http://evisaforms.st...ulingSystem.asp

Thailand no longer appears in the country list...does this mean they are no longer doing appointments in Thailand and you just show up now?