TV licence letter (uhoh)

neil9313

bella2121 wrote: »

This is where you're facts are incorrect it is not the property which is licenced but the person named on the licence and there family living at the same address, there are circumstances where numerous licences are required at the address ie paying lodgers, also if the person named on the licence has left the address then the people living at the address are not covered, this is the reason those letters are sent out.

more tosh really, there has to be doors with locks on Bella, mind you I would give this up by now :rotfl:

uktyler

I'm getting more and more angry about these muppets, I don't need a licence as I don't watch TV. The letters are getting ruder and more aggresive each time. I've called them three times to tell them I don't need one, and still the letters keep coming.

I don't know who funds the sending of the letters, either its TV licence holders, who's money is being wasted, or its the tax payers, in which case everyones money is being wasted.

MothballsWallet

KILL_BILL wrote: »

the tv l;icensing is well known to be crap with keeping upto date their computer database which must be run my mice

Hang on a minute, mice are intelligent, have you not seen that splendid documentary Pinky and the Brain?

Oh, wait! It's a cartoon... "They're Pinky and the Brain, Pinky and the Brain, one is a genius, the other's insane" But, which is which?

MothballsWallet

Optimist wrote: »

Mmmm People should ring every 3 months to a premium rate number sounds like a good business plan for Capita !

I hope no one from Crapita is reading this - your post will give their CEO another idea that will earn him/her a fat bonus...

MothballsWallet

bella2121 wrote: »

there is know way of knowing the individual circumstances of every property within the UK

There is a way, but it means that Crapita will have to do some honest detective work for a change. And the management bonuses will fall by the wayside because of the extra costs.

HMRC and DWP can do it, why the hell can't Crapita? Oh, I forgot, they're a private company contracted by Government. They seem to get every government contract going, they've also got the congestion charge payment handling and, IIRC, the Chessington Computer Centre was sold to them in the 90's...

I bet they get the ID card system contract too...

There is a way to get people to pay for a licence, if and only if they need one under the law, without getting progressively more aggressive: by doing this,Capita are nothing more than legalised, profit-making, thugs. Like loan sharks, but with an Act of Parliament and Government contract to back them up and make them look legit.

neil9313

maninthestreet wrote: »

They need to catch you with the TV switched on in and no TV licence in order to have any hope of getting a prosecution. As you now have a TV licence, the visit may not even take place (the letter has had the desired effect of making you buy a licence).

load of tosh again!

rustyjemma

Ah this makes me smile.
Iv got two years worth of letters & No TV. Im not calling them, Sod them. The letters have cost them more than a TV licence by now.
The letters are the highlight of my day.. I can spot them a mile off.

moggylover

IvanOpinion wrote: »

Normally I can easily handle most situations but I am ashamed to say that a few months ago I allowed the Tv licensing people to get to me. It just so happened to be the first anniversary of my mothers death and I called round to pick up mail from her house (and have a quiet moment). In amongst the mail was a letter from the TV licensing people threatening my mother that she would be interviewed under caution for failing to have a license. Up until that point I had previously responded to their letters courteously including sending them a copy of my mother death certificate.

This letter got to me so I phoned them up and talked to some poor retard obviously incapable of getting a job anywhere else. I asked if he could give me at least 24 hours notice of the interview to give me time to dig my mother up and present her. The idiot at the other end of the phone just didn't get it and insisted my mother should get a TV license. I told him to turn on his recording equipment and then tolld him to F*** off and suggested he take my mother to court before hanging up. I suspect in another few months they will send out another threatening letter which I will ignore (since I am neither the addressee nor the occupier therefore I will simply return as 'not known at this address').

Ivan

I've had this as well Ivan - it took about 6 letters before I could get them to take her name off the bloody letters - and now I have a stack of threatening letters in a file - the first few of which I phoned and explained house empty and on the market, and now I just ignore!

It is SO hurtful when letters keep coming addressed to your dear deceased, and the only people worse in this matter were the Local Council.

moonrakerz

uktyler wrote: »

I'm getting more and more angry about these muppets, I don't need a licence as I don't watch TV. The letters are getting ruder and more aggresive each time. I've called them three times to tell them I don't need one, and still the letters keep coming.

I don't know who funds the sending of the letters, either its TV licence holders, who's money is being wasted, or its the tax payers, in which case everyones money is being wasted.

It's the TV Licence holders.

Write to your MP and complain about these cowboys - thousands of people already have - the more the better !

Optimist

I wonder if anybody has used the Harassment Act against this company, it does seem to be harassment in a lot of cases. Anybody who feels harassed by these people should write to them, sending the letter by recorded delivery telling them why you don't need a licence i.e. no television, and stating that they are in breach of the 1997 Harassment Act. Also mention that you withdraw the implied right to for them to visit your property. If they then continue the harassment inform the police. That would be interesting !