'License required' threats, but no TV in the house

melancholly

http://tvlicensing.metafaq.com/templates/tvlicensing/main/answerPage?_mftvst:answerRef=%24http%3a%2f%2fapi.transversal.com%2fmfapi%2fobjectref%2fEntryStore%2fEntry%2fhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.metafaq.com%2fmfapi%2fMetafaq%2fClients%2ftvlicensing%2fModules%2flicensingInfo%2fTopics%2fgeneral%3a140076%3a6&_mftvst:moduleID=%24licensingInfo&_mftvst:topicID=%24&id=TGC1CBMFS7TRVDDGMVOGFJ2KDE

huge link - but they suggest notifying them in writing. might be worth doing to be on the safe side.

nomoneytoday

You don't need a license. Only Americans have licenses.
However, tv watchers need a TV licence

Chillers

nomoneytoday wrote: »

You don't need a license. Only Americans have licenses.
However, tv watchers need a TV licence

Smart alec!

Debt_Free_Dreamer

I had a licence man come round my house and into the lounge. No TV in the lounge (did not tell him it was upstairs), He went away, quite happy. Only a couple of weeks later, he came back (same man) to check I still had no TV. By now it was in the lounge, but I wipped out the licence from my old address and he changed the details.

I often wonder if he would have kept coming round?

plumtreebabe

We have a TV but no licence: we moved to a very rural area where it was almost impossible to get reception without satellite, and we decided that we didn't watch it enough to be bothered. So now we rent/buy dvds (we have a four year and its great not having the influence of the adverts and to know what she is watching!). You don't need a licence to have a TV but you do need one to receive. We have a small portable and no aerial. I wrote to the licence people to explain this, and they wrote back and said fine, we would just get a reminder/prompt every three years. The reminder also states that an inspector would be visiting but they never do.

exup

you dont need to have a TV to need a tv licence though - if you are able to watch television broadcasts in any other way then you also need a licence. I.e. streaming over the internet (such as bbc iplayer).

zzzLazyDaisy

you might find this interesting........

http://www.bbctvlicence.com

vikingaero

ts_aly2000 wrote: »

Yes these TVLA people are starting to really get on my tits too.

Licence ran out in June. We went on holiday for a month so I figured that it wasn't worth getting one. First threatening letter arrived while we were away. Was then away again on a contract so again didn't bother. Another letter threatening me.

This is a 2nd property anyway so it's not that much of a loss not to use the television. Frankly I use the computer more than anything on here, and my partner plays his PS3.

So I'm NOT buying one! It's really not that much of a problem when you're up for work at 6am and lucky to be home by 8pm. There was a knock at the door the other night with this scruffy bloke banging for about 5-minutes with a clipboard and a beaten old car outside. I watched him through the peep hole. Not sure if it was them or not. We don't use the front door anyway.

Unless someone has arranged to come round then we're not interested in who they are. We don't actually live round there 24x7 anyway. The house is up for sale too.

But yes, TVLA. They're an absolute bloody nuisance. Who TF do they think they are!

In all honesty I would have just bought a licence as usual. It's their aggressive tone that made be rebel. Sod em'. Bring it on! I'm saving the letters as well.

Have also had them at work when I bought the plasma screen for reception too!!!!!!!!!!

I just don't understand how it's acceptable to send people aggressive and threatening letters. Surely that's stalking or something?

I quite agree. It's the threats and the way that they have large red letters on the envelope to embarrass you into buying a licence if your postman sees it. It's a pretty unethical way to do business. Imagine if your bank sent you a letter because you accidentally dipped into the red and they plastered "PAY YOUR UNAUTHORISED OVERDRAFT NOW" on the front of the envelopes.

I have a commercial property which had a TV Licence in the past when one tenant occupied it. But now it's an office with no TV's. I still get the threatening letters. I never reply to them and refuse to phone the number to do their work for them.

At home I like to keep them on their toes by not renewing the TV Licence and buying a new one and switching names from mine to my partners name. If they operate in such a shoddy manner then they are fair game.

sirtokealot

if you just ignore the letters from them as soon as you move to a new home then they dont know you exist. the letters they send out are done by the thousand every day.
in my opinion its a sham. there is a huge group on facebook to abolish it, think its got over 50,000 members. and there is a site with a petition to abolish the tv licence.
there is loads of advice for you on that facebook group. some funny stuff getting passed back and to. but there is lots of usefull info.

JohalaReewi

exup wrote: »

you dont need to have a TV to need a tv licence though - if you are able to watch television broadcasts in any other way then you also need a licence. I.e. streaming over the internet (such as bbc iplayer).

FWIW, you don't need a TV licence for the BBC iPlayer

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/tvlicence