Rocket wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 5:18 amI bought it at the auction house across the railroad tracks in jomtien. Some good deals there. Bought a large television, painting. Kitchen gadgets and a marble table there.
Gaybutton wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:18 am
I think you are referring to Collingbourne Auctioneers. They do have good deals and they are also a good place to unload household items and furniture. Here is their web site: https://www.collingbourne-auctioneers.com/
Where are other good places to purchase used items in Pattaya ?
As someone who doesn't own a property in Pattaya, the one item I'm thinking of currently is a bicycle.
Buy a used one, use it for several months & sell/lend it on at the end of the trip. Hopefully with a modest purchase price, just in case it cannot be sold.
In the UK, ebay would be top of my list of places to look.
Dodger wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 8:09 amYou could always rent one
Now that's a fairly sensible idea. At least see how I get on with cycling in Pattaya.
If I wanted to use it regularly, for several months, I figure buying a used bike might be more economic. And I could fit sensible tyres, rather than those stupid high rolling resistance MTB tyres.
Jun wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 3:21 pm
At least see how I get on with cycling in Pattaya.
I would rent first for a few days, mainly to see if where you would do your cycling would be safe. I rarely see people on bicycles in Pattaya. I think that is mainly because the way these people drive motorbikes and cars, bicycles are too great a risk.
I hardly ever even see children riding bicycles. They all ride motorbikes. I don't understand why their parents allow it, but they do.
Rocket wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:47 am
I meant I take the item with me after paying for it. When I won a large television I paid a baht bus driver 200 baht to deliver it , and another to deliver a marble table. I never thought to ask if they delivered. Probably do for a nominal fee.
I always took a motorcycle taxi to get there. There’s another auction house in north pattaya but I don’t think it’s as good as the one in jomtien. I haven’t been to either place for a few years, maybe I’ll go when I return soon. I do like statues, which they sometimes have. Just wish I had a bit more room in my condo for stuff.
Google shows 2. One north east of Pattaya & another closer to Bang Saray than Jomtien, so right out in the boonies
Is that the one ?
As for the statues, I'm imagining some kind of naked Khmer statue, rather like a cross between something you find in Angkor Wat & the kind of boy you off from Bar 69. Except no one makes statues that good.
Here in BKK about any business selling big items has some notes about free delivery (or from a certain MIN amount, then you pay a little if worth is less) or certainly will know someone who can deliver. I always assumed that would be normal anywhere in Thailand. BigC/TescoLotus also do. And ANY of the dozens+dozens more of 7-small shops that are here on just 1 square KM have multiple young guys-some even girls- on bikes or motosys for home/HTL-delivery. IF you see the NR of food-deliver GRAB guys in those green jackets around lunchtime one might wonder how so many of the ´street´foodcarts still survive.
