How do I tell the TV license folk I dont need one?

Nottoobadyet

actually its a 0300 number so the same as a normal phone call.

davek1

Have a look at the link below you can notify them on line

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check/index.aspx

debtbegone

jonnyb1978 wrote: »

I simply rang up and stated i do not have a tv, i bought a tv for a relative and thats that. Told them they are welcome to send a representative to check. He politely said no worries, updated his details and never heard from them since.:)

We kept getting them in the house we're renovating, just chucked them. The OH's mum got hold of one while picking up the mail while we were away, she rung them up, explained the situation (at that point the place was still brick walls and no floor etc) the letters stopped for a few months then they started sending them again, Including the "We will be visiting your area" ones. If they actually had visited they'd have been able to see there was nothing in the house at all, but no, just more and more letters :mad:

Sush a waste of paper and money, especially when they don't even listen to you.

I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Broken_hearted

We had no TV years ago TV license refuse to accept that anyone would choose to live without a TV. No matter how much we phoned they kept sending letters. We backed down and bought a TV:rotfl:

Nottoobadyet

Broken_hearted wrote: »

We had no TV years ago TV license refuse to accept that anyone would choose to live without a TV. No matter how much we phoned they kept sending letters. We backed down and bought a TV:rotfl:

:rotfl: That's awesome!

Maybe I can invite them in, show them my lovely bookshelf of wonderful novels and convert them to the no TV life?

RobertoMoir

Ring them, or write to them to say you don't have a TV. Or don't.

If they decide to, they'll ignore you either way. And it's for them to prove you have a TV, not for you to prove you don't. And they need a warrant to come in without your permission.

So it's up to you.

handyman123_2

I wish I didn't have a TV its mostly garbage on anyway. When I'm not working I'm mainly on line or writing.

But heres my idea, why not write to TV licencing Invite them to come and look for a TV in your home, maybe when you know that they are coming you could invite some of us round for a party, so that we can enjoy seeing thiere red faces.

When I lived so far north that we had no tv, No telephone and no electric apart from running a genny for 12 hours a day. We soon got used to it.
( it was only the midges that drove us out). Maybe more people should try it. :T

Best wishes, handyman123.

katsu

I rang them to tell them, far too many times. The letters kept coming every X months and made me quite cross. I dislike the implication in their letters that lots of those without licenses ought to have them as they do have TVs. I've now given up contacting them. I look forward to their license inspector/TV hunter coming to visit. I look forward to telling them they have no right to enter my house and closing the door.

If they care that badly they can get the police to come in and prove I have no TV - I have no TV in the house so have nothing to worry about

skintdragon

I am also one of the few folk without a TV.

I have had letters in the past from them too- I just phone them and tell them I don't own a TV. They may send letters every 6 months or so just to keep on top of things.

Try not to get too stressed about it!

C_Mababejive

Nottoobadyet wrote: »

Silly question, sure its been answered before but any help would be nice.

We've been in our flat for about a year. We don't have a TV and have never had one here. We also never watch TV at time of broadcast on-line so there is no need for a TV license.

However, the people who lived here before clearly had one as we used to get letters addressed to them. We passed these on to the landlady who I guess is still in touch with them as she takes all their mail that comes to the flat.

Now, the TV license folk may have caught on as they are addressing letters to the present occupier. Should I open the envelopes? From looking at the website there doesn't seem to be a simple way to tell them no thank you we still live in the stone age and don't have a TV set :-)

You dont need to tell them.

The idea is that if you buy/use a TV,you purchase a licence.

For example, in the era of dog licences,would you write to the local authority and tell them you didnt have a dog?

No? well why write to the imbeciles at TV licensing?

Just bin their mailshots as whether you tell them or not,they will keep sending them becuase they just cant believe that in this dismal country,there might actually be intelligent life which does something other than vegetate in front of the idiots lantern every evening.