Stop paying your TV Licence fee NOW???

Ice_2

Its funny you know but...afew years back now about 15...my TV broke and so as I was at work for what seemed most of the time in any one day...then doing housework gardening and visiting my parents to give a hand with there chores too... that I didn't see the point in getting another one until I actually had time to sit and watch the thing...which was about 10 years ago now...anyway one day I was in the bath getting ready for work (shifts) when the doorbell rang so me being me just carried on having me bath...I was not gonna get out, grab a towel and run and see if whoever had rang the bell was still there...and no honest living woman would anyway...so after I had me bath and got ready for work ...my shift was starting at 2pm anyway I noticed some random guy peering in the lounge window...so me being me...opens the back door and says "who the hell are you then" and he says "Tv Licencing board gotcha" holding up some silly ID and waving it at me...so I says got me for what then...and he says "havin a Tv without a Licence" and starts going on about the Law...so I said would you like to have a look inside before you accuse me of something...he says "no I have seen what I believe is a Tv set in your front room" so I went back indoors and got my warrant card and told the silly beggar to go get his eyes tested before I nicked him for wasting peoples time...he went quick sharpest as you like...never heard anymore about it...when I got a new Tv on sale at the local co-op the guy told me to go to the post office within 14 days of purchase to get a Licence as they had to start telling them now that people was buying em...I went the same day and got one...but never had anymore trouble off em...but they're not honest are they IMHO...bloody nuisances if you ask me...

but I don't agree with people watching a Tv without a Licence because if we have to buy one then why shouldn't they...the Law is the Law and it gets my back right up when people don't get one...

Ice_2

Volcano wrote: »

As 'detector' vans don't actually detect anything (they just drive them around council estates with "Detector Van" in big letters to intimidate the residents) and Noel doubtless lives at the end of a large drive with big gates and security staff, the chances of this happening are nil.

http://www.savethepound.fsnet.co.uk/tvl.htm

you do know that LCD Tv's have a call home chip in don't you...thats how they get you...plus the fact the its pretty useless to deny if you have a sky dish above your head... ...so why bother...

robpw2

i think that the licence fee is fair and i am happy to pay it , i mean if the bbc show such good programs as dr who , torchwood merlin, spooks, spooks code9 then it is worth it . we pay (in our house) 400 a year for sky and yet the bbc is great value , i get bbc1 2 3 4 bbc parliment bbc news 24 and all digital radio channels for 11 a month

Print_Screen

Yes the BBC may be good value but if you don't watch it or rarely do and don't listen to BBC radio then it is far less good value.
To be forced to pay for something you don't use is what people resent.

mymatebob

Print_Screen wrote: »

Yes the BBC may be good value but if you don't watch it or rarely do and don't listen to BBC radio then it is far less good value.
To be forced to pay for something you don't use is what people resent.

Value is undoubtedly subjective.

For what the BBC provides I think it is good value even though there is much of it that I don't use.

I doubt they could go down a tiered system like Sky where you are given choices (sic) and can pick what you watch and pay accordingly, however something has to give.

I do think it is iniquitous that people who are able to receive analogue only and have no access to computers have to pay the same as someone who can access all the freeview channels, various BBC radio stations and it's huge web resource.

If thinks don't dramatically change in the next licence fee round of negotiations or the one after that I will be very surprised.

EU_Truth

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93541

Capita employees have had enough.

As a Team Manager for TVL (who left last week), I've had enough of the BBC propaganda/Government enforced "TV Licence".

Evidence:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93541

The "TV Licence" is finished.

EU_Truth

If thinks don't dramatically change

Quote: "mymatebob"
"...If thinks don't dramatically change..."

"If thinks" ???

Typical Beeboid.

Ms_Chocaholic

Ice wrote: »

I noticed some random guy peering in the lounge window...so me being me...opens the back door and says "who the hell are you then" and he says "Tv Licencing board gotcha" holding up some silly ID and waving it at me...so I says got me for what then...and he says "havin a Tv without a Licence" and starts going on about the Law...so I said would you like to have a look inside before you accuse me of something...he says "no I have seen what I believe is a Tv set in your front room"

I'm intrigued as to what did the TV man see in your front room?

Fulham_Mark

From my limited knowledge of physics I think that you can detect an aerial that is receiving a TV signal. Either is resonates in sympathy with the signal or it sends up a small current that is affected by the waves carrying the TV signal and you can detect that.

It's not easy when there's a block of flats with one aerial or many aerials close together. I got hassled for months once because my address didn't have a license I would have been happy to show them in and turn my TV on - it was impossible to receive anything as there was no aerial and no reception either. They never showed up.

I probably will stop mine soon as I never watch TV and the thing looks ugly just sat there taking up lots of space. I can get by with DVDs and internet for news.

EU_Truth

How the BBC (using their "TV Licencing" arm) entrap you into paying for them:

All approved by the government, of course!!!

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1vw_PoMIxs
Violence is the answer (according to TV Licencing)

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_1xNWq9M_s
Trespass

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Sa1DgmCww&feature=related
Ignore the law... we are scum and think we are above it

BBC=Disgrace
Do not pay for this MAFIA organisation.