ASDA notify TV Licensing over Hi-Fi Purchase

googler

1. Asda is a big organisation, and mistakes get made and fall through the cracks in big organisations.

2. If you'd bought it over the counter, you wouldn't have had the problem because you wouldn't have been asked to fill in a form with your address, such as the store would require you to do if buying a TV.

3. It's probably been caused by some noob in the admin dept sending the wrong disk/file/data to the TV licencing folks, and there's probably hundreds if not thousands of non-MSE users in receipt of letters from TV licencing by now.

timeportal

corbyboy wrote: »

What is a "TV related" item? In what way is a hi-fi related to a TV?

I think they're mother and daughter after the tv had an illicit affair with the microwave. This is the real reason you should never leave your items on stand-by over night

Azari

moonrakerz wrote: »

This is the inside of a TV "detector" van - note all the highly sophisticated equipment fitted inside:-

http://www.neverquitethere.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Empty-van-interior.jpg

That's a picture of the inside of a TV detector van that has 'TV Detector Van' written on the outside and 'aerials' all over the top.

The TV detector vans that have the equipment inside don't have 'TV Detector Van' written on the outside and the aerials are hidden.

MackemPunk

Azari wrote: »

That's a picture of the inside of a TV detector van that has 'TV Detector Van' written on the outside and 'aerials' all over the top.

The TV detector vans that have the equipment inside don't have 'TV Detector Van' written on the outside and the aerials are hidden.

If the vans really exist surely someone must have been convicted using the evidence gained by them.

Azari

MackemPunk wrote: »

If the vans really exist surely someone must have been convicted using the evidence gained by them.

No, it doesn't work like that.

They use the vans to determine if someone is watching and then go and knock on the door and get the evidence.

kwaks

Azari wrote: »

No, it doesn't work like that.

They use the vans to determine if someone is watching and then go and knock on the door and get the evidence.

All they can do is try to marry up the light flickering with what is broadcasting at that time to determine if it is in fact TV.


Easy enough when we had 3 channels.......

Damn near impossible now with hundreds of channels, delayed broadcasting, DVD, computers, games systems etc .

But Crapita won't let that stand in their way and are happy to try any dirty trick to secure conviction.

MackemPunk

Azari wrote: »

No, it doesn't work like that.

They use the vans to determine if someone is watching and then go and knock on the door and get the evidence.

And when the person in the house tells them to 'go away', why don't the use the evidence gained from the detector vans to get a warrant? The only detection equipment in a tvl van is a database of non licensed houses.

Azari

MackemPunk wrote: »

And when the person in the house tells them to 'go away', why don't the use the evidence gained from the detector vans to get a warrant?

They can if the householder does not cooperate. It seems that in most cases, though, they put their hands up - especially if the programme is clearly audible.

The only detection equipment in a tvl van is a database of non licensed houses.

An amusing myth but, unfortunately for TV licence cheats, a false one.

MackemPunk

Azari wrote: »

They can if the householder does not cooperate. It seems that in most cases, though, they put their hands up - especially if the programme is clearly audible.



An amusing myth but, unfortunately for TV licence cheats, a false one.

Ha'way then, I want a link to prove that detection vans work, a court case or warrant that capita have gained using technology from their vans.

The vans are a myth people admit at the door because the believe in the vans, I have had professional dealings with Capita and not once would an employee confirm that the vans had equipment.

Azari

MackemPunk wrote: »

Ha'way then, I want a link to prove that detection vans work, a court case or warrant that capita have gained using technology from their vans.

You can want all you like.

The vans are a myth people admit at the door

because the believe in the vans, I have had professional dealings with Capita and not once would an employee confirm that the vans had equipment.

ROFLMAO!

Capita are a £2.7billion revenue company. Do you really think all their employees know all the technical details of their operations.


What you need to realise is that this technology was originated when a far smaller percentage of homes had TV's. Nowadays it's pretty much assumed that any household will probably have a TV but when these were developed they could not just call one every house which didn't have a licence and investigate. They needed some technique of picking residences where there actually was a TV. The fact that evidence from such a van has never been used in a court case is irrelevant. They were never designed to provide evidence - merely to select targets.