Regular letters from the TV licence folk

GingerBob_3

If you tell them online you haven't got a TV the letters only stop for two years.

Best advice is the 'cease and desist' letter. I assume there's no two year limit on that.

Good point about not telling these bottom feeders your name/address etc. online, but of course the C&D letter will have some identity information out of necessity.

Cornucopia

GingerBob wrote: »

If you tell them online you haven't got a TV the letters only stop for two years.

If you're lucky.

Best advice is the 'cease and desist' letter. I assume there's no two year limit on that.

The BBC seems to have imposed an arbitrary 2 year limit on legal devices such as WOIRA (assume this includes Cease & Desist as well). There is no clear justification in law for this, nor does the BBC seek to provide one.

Hopefully, it is merely a matter of time before one of their operatives attending a household that has implemented WOIRA is faced with civil action for trespass.

Atidi

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Before anyone says it, let me save you the time -

"how hard is it to go online & say you don't have a TV"
"how hard is it to write to them...."
"how hard is it to phone them..."

Ok now that's done, we keep getting letters from the TV licence folk saying our address no longer has a TV licence. We know this since we don't have a TV & have told them on numerous occasions & that we'll inform them if/when this changes.

We still get letters.

They're not writing to us saying they're going to investigate us. That's fine - they can come in & have a look if they wish. They'll see a building site.


Is there any way of stopping these letters? Or do they just keep coming until you buy a TV & then a licence?

No way to permanently stop these letters, but as you seem to be aware, you can suspend them for a while (maybe 2 years?)

How long is your house going to be a building site for? I think it only took them about 4 months to build our house from digging the foundations to us moving in.

You don't need to buy a TV, just an annual TV licence to stop the letters.

Another alternative if it's a building site might be to seal up the letter box (you may wish to double check that sealing it up is not also a requirement of the insurance)

Cornucopia

Atidi wrote: »

No way to permanently stop these letters, but as you seem to be aware, you can suspend them for a while (maybe 2 years?)

You *ought* to be able to stop the letters indefinitely. In fact, you probably could with an injunction. It is only the BBC's bad attitude that causes the problem.

You don't need to buy a TV, just an annual TV licence to stop the letters.

This is ridiculous - why would anyone buy an unnecessary licence just to appease the BBC's rabid officiousness?

GingerBob_3

So according to the BBC a C&D letter expires after two years? !!!!!!! Presumably you can state in the letter that it doesn't ever expire and that they, or their agents, are permanently banned from your property.

Cornucopia

They say this (now) in response to WOIRA. I'm assuming that their response to C & D would be the same, but I don't know of anyone who has done this recently.

WOIRA, certainly is implicitly indefinite, and there are now 9,000 in place, according to BBC figures. Tick tock, as they say.

Moneymaker

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzgUqkJjeg

Cornucopia

Incorrect link?

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Cornucopia wrote: »

Incorrect link?

You don't want to make paper bricks?:D

(I think the point is that the letters should just be ignored and re-cycled.)

Cornucopia

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

You don't want to make paper bricks?:D

(I think the point is that the letters should just be ignored and re-cycled.)

In my defence, there are hundreds of TVL related videos on YT, and I was expecting one of those.