Core community

IT OBMEN Pattaya

The community's official exchange: roubles and USDT to baht, in cash or to a Thai account

IT OBMEN grew not out of a business plan but out of trust. Once an audience had gathered around the community, friends pointed out the obvious to the founder: people trust you, and they have a constant everyday problem — turning roubles or crypto into baht without risk — so solve it. That’s how an exchange appeared inside the community, with Anton handling branding and promotion and a partner from among old acquaintances handling the operations.

What we do. We change roubles and USDT into Thai baht. We accept transfers from Russian banks and via SBP, and stablecoins from the major exchanges. We pay out in cash, delivered anywhere in Pattaya, or by transfer to a Thai account. We help pay for things that are hard to pay for yourself: tickets, purchases, local services. The rate is published every day on the exchange site and in the channel.

Why us rather than the first channel that pops up in a search. The exchange lives inside a community where people know us by sight and where any mistake would be common knowledge within an hour. That keeps us more disciplined than any reviews could. We don’t promise “the best rate in town” — we promise that the money will arrive, and that if something goes wrong you’ll be talking to a real person, not a bot.

P2P safety is a topic of its own. The community’s channel has a detailed breakdown of how to avoid getting caught up in someone else’s scam and having your account frozen in Thailand; it also covers news on currency controls and USDT monitoring by the Bank of Thailand. We don’t follow this out of curiosity: the rules change, and an exchange has to change with them.

How to start: open the channel, check today’s rate, message the operator. Details on payment methods, delivery and limits are on the exchange site and in the channel’s pinned post. The service runs in Russian.