TV Licensing harassment letters

Horace

I used to get harassment letters from the TV licensing people and I told them that at the time I didnt have a TV, so they told me that 10 years previously there was a TV at my address - I dare say there was but I didnt live here at the time:rolleyes: I did tell them that once I bought a tv then I would get a license but in the meantime I wasnt going to get one for a non-existent tv. They were amazed that I didnt have a tv.

The letters ceased once I had a tv and got a license though.

Sol00

myrnahaz wrote: »

Don't you need a TV licence if you use a radio - even if you have no TV? I'm sure that's the case.

No, it's only if you have a colour or black and white TV that receives live television broadcasts.

Sol00

Horace wrote: »

I used to get harassment letters from the TV licensing people and I told them that at the time I didnt have a TV, so they told me that 10 years previously there was a TV at my address - I dare say there was but I didnt live here at the time:rolleyes: I did tell them that once I bought a tv then I would get a license but in the meantime I wasnt going to get one for a non-existent tv. They were amazed that I didnt have a tv.

The letters ceased once I had a tv and got a license though.

So you also continued to receive letters until you bought a TV, even after you'd contacted them?

indierocker85

http://www.tpuc.org/stoppayingtvlicencefees

Follow this and never pay the fee again.

Worked for me

hawkwinddotcom

indierocker85 wrote: »

http://www.tpuc.org/stoppayingtvlicencefees

Paranoia? Not the poster but the web site owner

serpent13

olias wrote: »

Thought I would patronise you as well by pointing out that this last post is over 2 years ago. Perhaps you need the 50% off for being blind:p:D

Olias

I'm sorry, does the age of the post make the slightest bit of difference? :mad:

TV Licensing do not seem to have changed their tactics in the past two years.

I think threads like these should be 'renewed' regularly so that anyone who has these problems with TVL ie The BBC farming out their dirty work to Capita, can get some ideas as to what to do to get rid of them.

Mrs_Ryan

I had this problem in my last place - it was a converted halls of residence with 8 rooms but only 2 people lived there. The only TV was in the front room and correctly licensed.
But still we kept getting these threatening letters and yes they claimed they had 'updated their records'
Had they hell! I lost my temper once and said if you bothered doing your job properly then you would see that there is only one TV which is properly licensed!
They also said that we might get a visit to check that the occupants of the other rooms (!!!!) didnt have TV's, to which I laughed and said 1) There's usually only me here as my housemate was away a lot and I know that male enforcement officers are not allowed to enter any premises where there is a lone female, and 2) that they are welcome to ask the invisible occupants of the empty rooms where their licences are!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I moved out about 3 weeks after that, and my housemate cancelled the licence as he didnt watch the TV but it belonged to the landlady so he couldnt take it out. But he did tell me the letters came even more thick and fast after that!!!

el_gringo_3

A couple of times in various houses I've not had a telly (I move a lot, and if you can't afford a flat screen a TV is a !!!!!! to transport!), and have rung them to tell them.

They've asked to send out someone to check within the following two weeks, I've said "sure, send someone round to check, i'll even make them a cuppa". No-one ever came round, and I didn't recieve another letter, as they said (they said I'd be off their list for 2 years)

silversnaffles

AGH don't say the words TV licence to me!! :mad:
They continually threaten us, around 2 letters per month saying 'final demand' 'enforcement officers will be calling' (yeah like they would find us, most of the locals have trouble getting here) :rotfl:
Anyhow they sent my 99yr old gran a threatening notice too...99!!! Apart from the fact this is quite frankly deplorable, the over 75s get free licenses anyway - are they not even aware of their own policies??? :doh:
I always return the letters to sender (hopefully it will cost them about 30p a time ) but this time I got fed up and wrote this:

Dear Sir/Madam,
Today I received another threatening notice from your office informing me that an officer would be visiting my address as we are under investigation by the enforcement division. We receive a letter to this effect at least once a month, which is quite frankly a waste of your time and money. The tone of the letter that arrives is unnecessarily threatening and utterly incorrect. A TV licence has been purchased for the above property (in my mother’s name of ******). It was purchased in January 2009, number ***** and I have in front of me the very letter confirming payment in full of a colour TV licence on the 16th January 2009 which will not need to be renewed until December 2009. Considering that in this modern age information of this kind is supposed to be stored electronically I shall simply consider it to be a gross human error, in which case I should hope this will be corrected. If we receive anymore of these letters I will certainly look at any action that can be taken against you.

no reply yet....:rolleyes:
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Fire_Fox

I cancelled my DD at the start of October when I was six months in credit. Within about ten days I'd received a letter AND three phone calls, only one of which I got to in time to answer. When I said I no longer required a license, the woman got on her high horse saying I should have rung (08 number on my mobile, no thanks) so I pointed out that I'd already downloaded, completed and posted the refund forms. She finished the conversation by saying an inspector would visit! Just received a letter saying the same so in the process of withdrawing the implied right of entry. Bizarrely the refund was processed very efficiently!