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[Rob Jones]

No.

However, I honestly don't remember giving them a phone number either time I signed up. Only an email address. Maybe I did and just don't remember. I mentioned that I didn't change my phone number in my previous reply because I have not changed my phone number since I moved to Thailand several years ago, long before I first signed up for ThaiFriendly, so I knew that was not an issue for me.

Right now, looking at my Account Settings on the computer version of the site, I don't see a place to enter or change a phone number. Maybe a phone number was applied to the mobile app version of ThaiFriendly when I downloaded and installed it. Again, I don't remember if it was required or not. I don't see anything about a phone number in those Settings either. But I suspect I just opened the mobile app and entered the same Username and Password I was already using on the computer version.

All is good now. I sent an email when I eventually found a link. My page was so blocked that I couldn't get past " your page is blocked due to a complaint ". I found a notification in my email and followed it back to get the email address. Funnily enough as soon as I mentioned refund my account was activated within 12 hours. I asked why I was blocked but no response to that query.

Thanks for everyone's help.

[Crocodilexp]

I think it is better to get a massage at a massage place and have sex at a sex place. Keep the 2 separate.

Fully agree with that, I never understood the appeal of the massage parlor sex. They don't have proper facilities for sex, like private rooms with showers. Moreover, I hate how it's customary to first start a massage and then negotiate sex -- if negotiations fail, you're neither getting a proper massage (which you'll pay for), nor sex. The girl knows it, and she's in a better negotiation position. Either we arrange the whole deal upfront, or I walk.

[Horatio]

Just my opinion fwiw. I was walking down 2nd Road and some woman was trying to get to me to get a massage from her. She said 300 baht body to body. Then inside it all changed. I ended up giving her an extra 700 thb for a crappie blow job and a hand job. I probably misunderstood what she meant when she said, "300 baht, body to body". Who knows and it isn't worth it to argue on some things. The whole thing was a waste of money.

That incident aside, I think it is better to get a massage at a massage place and have sex at a sex place. Keep the 2 separate. When I am getting a oil massage and they keep bumping into little horatio though, he starts thinking and we end up mixing up the two.

Now that I am back in pattaya I remember why I hate motorbikes. Those things come out of nowhere and are quick. I am surprised more people don't get hurt by them. I saw some guy crossing the road at a corner, halfway across and not paying attention to anything. Some people are drunk or just idiots and motorbikes are dangerous.

I don't know if there are other places like pattaya in the world, but it sure is a unique place to me. I will be ready to go when I leave in a week, but it is a lot fun for awhile.

[EihTooms]

Did you use a different cell number to activate your new account?

No.

In my case, signing up again with just a different email address was enough to get it done. I had the same phone number as before.

However, I honestly don't remember giving them a phone number either time I signed up. Only an email address. Maybe I did and just don't remember. I mentioned that I didn't change my phone number in my previous reply because I have not changed my phone number since I moved to Thailand several years ago, long before I first signed up for ThaiFriendly, so I knew that was not an issue for me.

Right now, looking at my Account Settings on the computer version of the site, I don't see a place to enter or change a phone number. Maybe a phone number was applied to the mobile app version of ThaiFriendly when I downloaded and installed it. Again, I don't remember if it was required or not. I don't see anything about a phone number in those Settings either. But I suspect I just opened the mobile app and entered the same Username and Password I was already using on the computer version.

[Rob Jones]

Not that I will have a better suggestion than Mr. E's about contacting them, but just letting you know something similar to this happened to me too. Like you, I'd had a short term premium account, cancelled and later could not sign up again for another stint. This would not make sense from a business standpoint, of course. It must be a weird glitch in their system. Why would ThaiFriendly "punish" someone for cancelling an account in the past by preventing them from signing up again later to give them more money? But the same thing crossed my mind at the time. Then again, the word "Thai" is in there, so maybe what makes sense has little or no bearing. In my case, signing up again with just a different email address was enough to get it done. I had the same phone number as before.

I should mention that when I first got stumped in trying to sign up for that second stint, I emailed them about it and never got a response. I waited a week for their reply and never got one. That was when I decided to try signing up with a different email address and that solved it.

Now, I have gotten an email response from them on a recent question I had about renewal while I am a current premium member. Which is a very different circumstance, of course. Incidentally, my question this time was how to change my auto-pay/renew 3 month premium membership to an auto-pay/renew 1 year premium membership without first cancelling my current 3 month membership, which appeared to be the only way it can be done according to what I've read on their website. I am wary of cancelling and being locked out again unless I open another email account, maybe add a new phone number for verification, blah, blah, blah. Sure enough, that is what ThaiFriendly's email response told me to do; I must allow my current account to end and then sign up again for a new account. You can't change your next billing cycle ahead of time while in the midst of another one in order to retain your current profile settings, photos, Interests, Favorites, etc. Uh. Ok.

That also means I had to go into settings and cancel the auto-pay/renew part of the deal or my ongoing 3-month premium memberships will never end, they'll just keep getting automatically renewed as a 3 month premium membership. I've got a couple of weeks left of my current account so it remains to be seen whether I will be able to sign up again and give them more money or not when that time comes.

Oh, a quick question: are you signed up with another dating site, say, ThaiCupid on that email account that no longer works for ThaiFriendly? I only ask because that was the case for me and, as weird as it sounds, the thought actually crossed my mind that there was some issue of "duplicity" or perhaps the same people own both sites and they were trying to boost or retain ThaiCupid memberships by locking me out of ThaiFriendly or whatever strange Internet thingy was up.

Did you use a different cell number to activate your new account?

[EihTooms]

Hi all.

I was in Thailand in May and paid for 1 months premium membership which I then canceled when I returned home. About 1 week later my account was suspended so I opened a new account but again 1 week later it was suspended as well. I used a different email account but the same cell number for verification.

Firstly has this happened to other people? Secondly how do I fix this problem? I'm thinking of obtaining a new SIM and use it for the verification code.

I was a standard member of TF for 6 months and I experienced no problems. Is the suspended account a reward for buying and and not renewing my premium membership?

Thanks in advance.

Rob.

Not that I will have a better suggestion than Mr. E's about contacting them, but just letting you know something similar to this happened to me too. Like you, I'd had a short term premium account, cancelled and later could not sign up again for another stint. This would not make sense from a business standpoint, of course. It must be a weird glitch in their system. Why would ThaiFriendly "punish" someone for cancelling an account in the past by preventing them from signing up again later to give them more money? But the same thing crossed my mind at the time. Then again, the word "Thai" is in there, so maybe what makes sense has little or no bearing. In my case, signing up again with just a different email address was enough to get it done. I had the same phone number as before.

I should mention that when I first got stumped in trying to sign up for that second stint, I emailed them about it and never got a response. I waited a week for their reply and never got one. That was when I decided to try signing up with a different email address and that solved it.

Now, I have gotten an email response from them on a recent question I had about renewal while I am a current premium member. Which is a very different circumstance, of course. Incidentally, my question this time was how to change my auto-pay/renew 3 month premium membership to an auto-pay/renew 1 year premium membership without first cancelling my current 3 month membership, which appeared to be the only way it can be done according to what I've read on their website. I am wary of cancelling and being locked out again unless I open another email account, maybe add a new phone number for verification, blah, blah, blah. Sure enough, that is what ThaiFriendly's email response told me to do; I must allow my current account to end and then sign up again for a new account. You can't change your next billing cycle ahead of time while in the midst of another one in order to retain your current profile settings, photos, Interests, Favorites, etc. Uh. Ok.

That also means I had to go into settings and cancel the auto-pay/renew part of the deal or my ongoing 3-month premium memberships will never end, they'll just keep getting automatically renewed as a 3 month premium membership. I've got a couple of weeks left of my current account so it remains to be seen whether I will be able to sign up again and give them more money or not when that time comes.

Oh, a quick question: are you signed up with another dating site, say, ThaiCupid on that email account that no longer works for ThaiFriendly? I only ask because that was the case for me and, as weird as it sounds, the thought actually crossed my mind that there was some issue of "duplicity" or perhaps the same people own both sites and they were trying to boost or retain ThaiCupid memberships by locking me out of ThaiFriendly or whatever strange Internet thingy was up.

[Mr Enternational]

I was a standard member of TF for 6 months and I experienced no problems. Is the suspended account a reward for buying and and not renewing my premium membership?

Why not email and ask them? When mine expired it was on automatic renewal and I did not know it. When I saw it charged my card, I sent them an email and they reversed the charges.

[Rob Jones]

Hi all.

I was in Thailand in May and paid for 1 months premium membership which I then canceled when I returned home. About 1 week later my account was suspended so I opened a new account but again 1 week later it was suspended as well. I used a different email account but the same cell number for verification.

Firstly has this happened to other people? Secondly how do I fix this problem? I'm thinking of obtaining a new SIM and use it for the verification code.

I was a standard member of TF for 6 months and I experienced no problems. Is the suspended account a reward for buying and and not renewing my premium membership?

Thanks in advance.

Rob.

[Horatio]

I am going to a small strip of bars and the picking is bad. One girl I took home sent me a line message a few days later, I mistook her for someone else and replied. Apparently she got mad. She told me she didn't want to talk to me anymore and when I saw her yesterday she gave me a mean look. I don't understand that. I imagine I am not the only customer she has or messages with. She was fun, but no more of her.

Another woman there I have taken back to the motel with me twice. She sends me line messages that she loves me and misses me, etc. I told her I am butterfly and see different women. I don't really want to see her again because of her messges. If not for them she is fun to be with. When I researched coming to thailand for the first time, 13 years ago, I read that women could be possessive if you barfined them. I never had that experience much until this trip.

I am going back to pattaya for a week in a couple of weeks. I think I will monger there more and not so much here. The busy part of phuket is a bit too far for me to drive at night, especially if I drink anything.

When I was here in phuket last winter, I met a woman who i liked being with. I barfined her most weekends and didn't really want to butterfly much. I haven't found anyone like that this time and really don't think I want to. Katherines has pretty girls there, but I like to get girls long time, overnight and that is expensive at katherines. That said I think katherines is the way to go for me. I am here for 3 more months so maybe high season will change things for the better.

[Horatio]

The girl I was was with last night does not have to work today because her bar is going to be closed. She didn't know if other places would e the same. So at least some bars in phuket are going to be closed. Though that bar is not in a big touristy place.

Anyone know what to expect with mother's day coming up? A FL told me since the 12th falls on a weekend it's observed on Monday instead. Would this impact availability of attractions both inside and out of the hobby? I was planning on seeing the Palace during the day and hitting up the bars at night but it seems like both of them might be closed.

Thanks in advance.

[Aster14]

Anyone know what to expect with mother's day coming up? A FL told me since the 12th falls on a weekend it's observed on Monday instead. Would this impact availability of attractions both inside and out of the hobby? I was planning on seeing the Palace during the day and hitting up the bars at night but it seems like both of them might be closed.

Thanks in advance.

[Mr Enternational]

If I am getting a regular massage, no sex wanted or offered, would I have my underwear on or off? I just want a massage and nothing more and am at a place where nothing more is offered.

I must be the only one here that gets nekkit for a foot massage. I always decline the pajamas.

[Franga]

If I am getting a regular massage, no sex wanted or offered, would I have my underwear on or off? I just want a massage and nothing more and am at a place where nothing more is offered.

Thanks.

For an oilie you would always take your underpants off. For a thai masssage you would keep your underpants on and they would even dress you in pyjamas.

[Sinofaguo]

If I am getting a regular massage, no sex wanted or offered, would I have my underwear on or off? I just want a massage and nothing more and am at a place where nothing more is offered.

This isn't a forum about basic education but since you ask: In a legit massage place yes you are supposed to cover your nudity either with the provided underwear or if you are not confortable wearing them, you are meant to put on towel on your waist.

[Horatio]

If I am getting a regular massage, no sex wanted or offered, would I have my underwear on or off? I just want a massage and nothing more and am at a place where nothing more is offered.

Thanks.