What are the implications of Thai Visa Centre buying the Thai Visa Advice Facebook group?

I think that group gave me the boot. I think a lot of us in this group got the boot. That group used to block questions that weren't 100 visa related and would delete your comments if they were off topic. The funny thing is the admins would then go find questions and post them because they didn't have people asking questions. As an Englishmen might say "What a bunch knobs"

Yep.. got banned from there too, senstive souls!

Fun fact, that group for a long time didn't let you ask any questions other than about visa. This included drivers licenses, yellow books, housing contract questions, ext. I made this group specifically so people could ask those questions, and Loyd kicked me from the group 8 hours later.

I wish I still had the screenshot of Loyd posting about "we run the Asylum, not the inmates. You will NOT argue with an admin in this group."

Thai Visa Center made a post yesterday saying that they will remain neutral and agent posts are still banned. We shall see though :)

I got banned from the bigger group (Thai Visa Advice), years ago, because it was run by dictatorial foreigners. In fact, this group (And Everything Else) was created by someone who also got banned by the low life mods and admin from the bigger group. I didn't mind Tod, but he is a bit too "by the book", but other mods in the bigger group were complete garbage. I am very happy to see "Thai Visa Centre" buying the bigger group, they have been my agent for many years. One of the few legit agent in Thailand. I am not telling you guys that as a advertisement for them, but simply that the bigger group will finally have variety of thought and accurate information/alternative, which was seriously lacking. Just because the people there were able to "quote the law', doesn't mean that they were being "helpful" to people in difficult situations.

Ironic really as they didnt allow any promotion/advertising of visa agents in Thailand.

Visa advice group bought by a agency mmmmm. Time will tell but I bet there hoping to get there money back & more

When you see Tod leave is when that group will have lost its credibility. I think as long as he stays then it's still okay.

They were the best in terms of accuracy. Let's see what happens now, this group needs to tighten up if it's to be of the same quality as they were, but impartiality is key 👍👍

Yes that’s true. We’ll just have to wait and see how that transpires. The admins here are neutral. Generally we don’t advocate any agency but acknowledge they exist.