Money & Costs
Bargaining in Thailand Is Fine and Haggling With Women Selling Food Is Not
The rules are simple, consistent, and almost nobody outside the country knows them. Getting them wrong costs you money or costs you a relationship.
Money & Costs
Real numbers. What a month costs, what a year costs, and what is cheaper than advertised.
Money & Costs
Your Bank Called to Say the Card in Thailand Was Captured, and There Is Nothing You Can Do
Thai banks are required to destroy a card the moment it is captured for a wrong PIN, and nobody can overrule your issuer from ten thousand kilometres away. Here is how to not be that person.
Money & Costs
Thai Gold Is Cheaper Than Gold and the Reason Is a Refusal to Charge You for Craftsmanship
Everything in a Thai gold shop is 96.5 percent and priced by weight, the price is published on a screen you can read before you walk in, and the markup on making is small. Here is the system.