Quote by: news
He John,
The Tiger dealer locator (http://www.boxermc.info/locator/) works fine at our side, what doesn't work if you use it?
Well, now that you ask. not only does your site often not work well and takes numerous tries and a lot of effort to use, but your locator at
http://www.boxermc.info/locator does nothing but gives an address, and that is less than correct.
And EVERYBODY knows how well Thai addresses work. HAHAHAHAHA!
So here we go.....
These are the 2 listings it gives me with distances from Hua Lumpong Railway Station, or Hua Lamphong (As the signs, official BTS map, and my GPS call it) Knowing how Thai addresses are so very inconsistent, I can get it past that minor issue.
Tiger Motorsales Co. Ltd (Showroom) 1865 Phaton Yothin Road, Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900 11.93
Lopburi Bus Station, Thailand Lopburi Bus Station, Thailand 118.47
Right away I wonder, "Is there really a Tiger Dealer at the Lopburi Bus Station?", but since it is over 100 km away I quickly dismiss that and pursure the other listing. Just an address.
Next thing I notice is "Phaton Yothin Road", and think, oh crap, I know where Phahon Yothin Road is, and I've seen signs for Phalon Yothin Road, but never sure exactly where that is, so I read on further.....
So then lets get to the "Iadyao" part. Oh crap again, is that a capitol "i" in ladyao, or and "L" in lower case? Could they possibly mean "Lat Phrao" (again, the spelling from the signs, the official BTS map, my GPS, google, etc).....
So I start trying to find in google maps, these are 5 of the tries and variables used, and the results:
We were not able to locate the address:
1865 Phaton Yothin Road, Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900
We were not able to locate the address:
1865 Phahon Yothin Road, Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900
We were not able to locate the address:
1865 Phahon Yothin Road, Lad Phrao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900
We were not able to locate the address:
1865 Phahon Yothin Road, Lad Prao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900
1865 Phahon Yothin Road, Lat Phrao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900
This one got this result,...it was way up north of Don Muang Airport. Here's the google link, check for yourself.
>Phahon Yothin Khlong Nung, Don Muang, Bangkok, Thailand<
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 4&t=h&z=14
1865 Phahon Yothin Road, Bangkok, 10900
This one also got a result. Showed me a spot on Phahon Yonthin just west of Khampaeng Phet MRT station and just north of Saphan Khwai BTS station. Here's the google link for that too, just to save you the time of having to actually make much effort to properly direct those that come to your forum: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 2&t=h&z=15
Except that neither of those results are anywhere near the Tiger dealer.
At this point you might be thinking, "why didn't the stupid guy just click AGAIN on the link that came up with the address after he did the search to find the 2 listings, the one at the bus station 118 km away (that I doubt exists) or the one that already gave the address information
"Tiger Motorsales Co. Ltd (Showroom) 1865 Phaton Yothin Road, Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900 11.93 "
At this point the easiest and nicest thing to say is, "because it really didn't make any sense to".
BUT, yes BUT I went back and clicked it....and I got this cute little google map popped up. Although I would love to keep explaining in excruciating detail this ludicris comedy of misinformation, I'll just say that your little google map points to a place quite a ways north of where the actual Tiger Dealer Showroom is.
As if that wasn't enough, I also asked someone that HAD actually bought a bike from them where it was, and he put me in the general area.
I got to the Mo Chit BTS station, so fairly close to the dealership, then I thought, well, I'll just take a taxi, hahahahahaha, my Thai girlfriend with me, first sevaral taxi's said they had no idea where it was, then on thought he'd just get a fare either way and said yes. He had no idea, tried taking me to the "Fino" dealership, meaning of course Yamaha. Tiger, Fino, Yamaha, none of those sound alike in English or Thai. Oh well, I thought for sure a motorbike taxi would know, so we went to the motorbike stand, you know, where there are several motorbike taxi's waiting for customers. After a lot of Tigerrrrrr, Tigerrrrrr, Tigerrrrrr, in the conversation, nobody had a clue. The taxi's all were also shown the address, but none knew where it was.
My poor girlfriend. It was her only day off, I was getting pissed. So there we were at a cineplex about 20-30 km from home and decided we would give up and just see a movie.
Nothing on we wanted to see. So we walked outside and just walked a bit to see if there were any numbers on the buildings we could use as a reference for 1865 Phahon Yonthin, could not find any. Crap. Saw a cop, thought "Hey, he must know where it is, they all ride Tigers", It really was a good idea, because a lot of them do know where it is, that one didn't know. The kid that heard me talking to him tells my girlfriend in Thai that it is just up about 1 block and over to the left one block.
I was scratching my head because we were standing on Phahon Yonthin, how could it be a block to the left? The kid was sure of himself, so we thanked him and walked about 50 meters and over a fence you could see an old Tiger sign about 50 meters or so back off of Phahon Yonthin. Hmm, could THIS be it? It was.
So doing the only thing that made any sense to me, I came up with some simple instructions people could use to ACTUALLY find the Tiger Dealer and then posted it.
Then I went into google and posted a "Point of Interest" titled "Tiger Motorcycle Dealer Bangkok", but it has not been approved by them so it isn't listed yet.
Clear enough for you?
Any other questions?