hi Simon again Bangkok Chronicles we've done a couple I'm living in Bangkok
first progress first four weeks I'm exploring platinum market now it gets a
bit boring when you start to walk around all these little alleyways looking at
clothes the other thing you find in platinum is jewelry just to keep your
wee little earrings and necklaces annings all mixed in but it's another
thing I had to consider for the future the idea of moving back to the UK in say
six months time and possibly importing products from Asia and said all
adjacently you had to find the different products
and look at every product because you could find somebody there selling lots
of the earrings that were 10 pen to 20 pens you could suddenly self a 2-pound 3
going back in your own country so I did have to study I'm finding the right
products to specialize in was a challenge but it was it was a really
enjoyable by moving around that platinum market ok was on my doorstep with my
condo but there was lots of lovely Thai food hidden away and street food around
that back alleys and things cafes it was a real buzz now in that first month I
was impressed meant most the time in the afternoon I was popping across the road
on petrol erosions panty Plaza I've mentioned the computer city complex I
was in there as well checking prices doing my homework
working out is there products in there that I can buy sell on line and make a
profit and there was there were certain things memory at the time was a big
thing the bicycle memory sticks I could put it online on eBay and sell
it for a profit now in that first couple of months I wasn't actually doing the
bonus and I was just investigating finding stuff and I spent a lot of time
just doing that pricing things up getting people's informations finding
all the contacts mobile phones were huge at that time
15 years ago 14 years it was not kiyose they were
everyone wanted Nokia's suddenly counterfeit Nokia's were popping up so
you had to be very careful there was a lot of those but phones second-hand
phones a huge market they were selling for more than for instance back in the
UK and immediately I was thinking I could import second-hand mobile phones
from the UK and sell them here that was in my mind but that would need great
licenses and things to do it but it was noted possibly could buy some an entire
lab sell it over their exchange instead of for money for other goods to come
back and you can maybe look at ways ran the laws that way in the evenings I I
didn't want spend lots of money because I wasn't earning any money occasionally
as I said went into the entertainment zones for a few beers using the happy
hours I suppose a bit like a cheap child wasn't interested in girls but I spent a
lot of time walking up and down the circum bit road like I was freelancing
awesome looking at all the people said in the products a lot of it was kind of
thick but it gave me an idea of the popular products people tourists were
coming over and they were buying it was the t-shirt I left Thailand and the Thai
silk the wooden games and things from Chiang Mai little puzzles and things
quite a few wooden products but it gave me an idea what people were buying when
they would come in on holiday and also prices they were vastly inflated the
prices so the Von Dutch jeans I bought if you were to buy the answer come via
Road in the evening I paid 350 but they were a thousand bars so these people
here simple business they were buying at platinum in the morning selling that
night making a nice profit again if you could dig down to where the press number
buying from for say 150 200 bar you can make even more money and I started
thinking about that more and more but the only way a lot of people won't tell
you whether they're buying from and you've got to start talking to people
getting to know the locals before they'll open up so that again that was
in the back of my mind I had to make some friends and try and work out where
they were buying them from it was save me a lot of legwork I used to go to a
pond very famous for ping pong ball shows and the entertainment area there
was a market still to this day sorry to or sorry for Pat Punk
it runs right down the middle of the entertainment zone now that night market
six in the evening it opens goes on till maybe 11:00 12:00 at night that one
market always seem to have the latest products the latest trend
so for watches it had the latest model the clothes it had the latest brands
it was sunglasses but and there's another video for you but all the latest
stuff was always in Patpong market and the prices impact upon market were even
higher than sucking bit road and street sellers so those ones I steamed in Pam
on market would have been 1500 bus and I soon started seeing the pattern of how
these street vendors were making their money and there was organized things
going on behind the scenes you know someone maybe had ten stalls and they
had people working for them they were buying in bulk and they'd have people
all over on the street selling huge business huge money soon became very
apparent especially with the watches very tight-knit community the watch does
work there were if they had counterfeit watches occasionally you'd see raids by
the police they climbed down and they take all this stuff off them so then the
watches would suddenly disappear for a few weeks and they'd be back like move
where the store was that happened a lot it was annoying if you were buying off
one person and then suddenly they got raided and they disappeared but by
getting those business cards and contacts and phone numbers you can track
them down again PAP home was a huge mark was not huge but quite a nice sized
market don't buy from that not unless you're on your last Union and you've got
no time left the prices are really inflated you're better off going to one
of the specialist markets now I mentioned watches quite a few
times I will come on to that a separate video the watches
Chinatown was around that area was whether watches were the cheapest
clothes they were markets where they were buy it I will in this series try
and point you to where I eventually found was the starting point where the
bulk products were coming in and you could purchase a lower price but the
word bulk you had to buy quantity to get the prices thing so this went against me
sometimes because I didn't want a hundred items or a thousand items even
though I could see it there at the lower price I couldn't
because I just didn't have a quantity but I will in this serious
what should definitely do a big thing on watches car accessories there was a huge
marketplace for car accessories
electrical goods from China torches anything electrical catalyst there was
an area for our clothes as I say platinum but there was other areas for
clothes any cheaper every product you could kind of think of is available in
Bangkok at a much reduced price than you would pay in your own country unless
you're living in certain parts higher of course and I'll try and go through with
the series that the different markets some prices and how I find found them
plus I'm also dating the wife getting married etc that's going to come in the
series later on as well so let's go on to computers today right now in 2017
there are in Bangkok some very very large shopping centers my favorite
possibly the biggest is mall become M became quite famous huge air-conditioned
shopping center not far from Siam Square really it's the hub for the center of
Bangkok some six floors I believe covering thousands of square meters on
the bottom is restaurants and zones where they'll bring cars in for showing
and promotions each level has different products and I always remember level
five I'm probably going to get it wrong now but I'm pretty sure as level 5 with
telephones a whole floor with little six foot cubicles so someone would have a
counter this then phones a seat and the side so it
actually was 2 meter and they would be paying for that to meet a section to
sell their wares there were thousands of these little stalls on that one floor
then you find a floor selling cameras and there's thousands it's a fascinating
shop amount MBK I love it it's my favorite by far you could sell you bits
and pieces secondhand into there you can buy second-hand in there and you the
phones it was the go-to place for me if I
wanted to sell a mobile phone again we'll probably do a video on phones but
it's my go-to place two cell phones and buy phones there was all what floor
which is pretty much a half of thought wood watches it dotted all over face
they were proper jewelers in the MBK there's proper gold shops where you can
buy and sell gold clothes pages of stall sewing clothes but again higher price
than platinum in the MBK is a big car park on the back as well on several
floors so easy to get to aircon food there I spent probably I condensed it
maybe 10 days all day and all evening in NBK going round all the stalls over my
period apps are these thousands of stores then across the road with Siam
Square more market shopping centres all the designer shops cinema bowling
restaurants everything inside there even there was a certain couple of flaws of
the back all mobile phone to all clothes all the same stuff every good shopping
centre had this where they have a food section probably a food maou for the
employees and you could go in tuck somewhere where you get cheap Thai food
but restaurants around the central Bangkok there are thousands of
restaurants everywhere all the shopping centers but then there was yeast leak or
the World Trade Center then there was a fire I think it was seat and it might be
cool now I have to dig it up but that was over near where I was living and
that was a big seed shopping center opposite so again two big mouths here
where I was all the same designer shops restaurants all the things all the stuff
just with those four or five big mouths I could go and study products prices I
could eat cheap get to know people get to meet people it was wonderful living
in the center of Bangkok all that on my door
I hadn't even that first month living I hadn't scratched the surface
coming up we're getting will cover other markets there's a huge market editing
that lot of foreigners would go on buses and coaches and would be bussed up their
prices higher but that market and I forgot the name of it oh my god the
biggest mob in Bangkok or gala next video
you could buy ours up there dogs cats of everything huge market up near mochit
forgotten oh I couldn't get over I was overwhelmed and I love markets I was
overwhelmed by how many markets there were how many square miles Bangkok code
I was in my elements I was absolutely loving living there it's just the heat
was just too much it really was but I soon learned to get around and which
hours to avoid my condo was fabulous for the money and some shy the guy that was
the manager of a couple of floors where I'm staying
I have my laptop and I was doing lots of work on there watching eBay of prices of
products comparing it to Thailand the plan moving forward except we have a
small screen shattered the song shy he had a spare computer screen he lent me
with a cable love the guy but a lovely good and he upgraded my internet in my
room I paid an extra hundred Bart I think a month to the fastest things and
I could get made a difference really good and my swimming pool found out he
was twenty bar to time to go down there for the towel but it's free to go into
me I've got the right condo so that's greater kind of split of a gym there as
well perfect position to be and the dude is Terrace and my knowledge is still
there today in today's prices you're probably going to get $400 a month
American dollars a month for that condo still cheap
today they recover months perigee anyway these videos are flying by so much
information I could end up doing 40 or 50 video for this series but as I said
you know I'm coming down on YouTube on the videos I'm producing and with other
stuff as I've already mentioned so these I'm just going to keep drip-feeding that
and hopefully you enjoy them sure you'll soon tell me that if you're not content
below I'll see you on the next video bye fillet