TV licensing threats

Kayak10

Hooloovoo wrote: »

I did read your original post, and as you're referring to your payments NOW before your old licence has expired, then you should be paying less than £3 per week. Not £5 per week somehow on a special reduced deal.

You've yet again got it wrong
IF TVL had their way as I'm sure they do in many thousands of cases I should have started paying in January or February I started paying two weeks ago Which in my view is more than early enough as my existing licence does not run out until 31/07/2014
One of their last threatening letters said I had to start paying for my 2015/2016 licence in January 2015 They've got no chance lol
As to putting letters in bin Again with TVL and other companies my experience and I think most debt advisory people say that is the worse thing to do :-( but each to their own

Hooloovoo

Kayak10 wrote: »

You've yet again got it wrong
IF TVL had their way as I'm sure they do in many thousands of cases I should have started paying in January or February I started paying two weeks ago Which in my view is more than early enough as my existing licence does not run out until 31/07/2014
One of their last threatening letters said I had to start paying for my 2015/2016 licence in January 2015 They've got no chance lol

Once you've paid your first six months, after that you pay 1/12 of the annual cost per month. That's it. It's no more complicated than that.

That cost is £145.50 per year. Or £12.13 per month. Or £2.80 per week. I still don't understand why you are paying £5 per week. Was your last licence paid upfront in full and you have only recently (two weeks ago) converted to direct debit?

As to putting letters in bin Again with TVL and other companies my experience and I think most debt advisory people say that is the worse thing to do :-( but each to their own

Where is the debt? I don't watch broadcast TV. I don't require a TV licence. I have no need to do any business with TVL. I have not debt with TVL. What's wrong with just putting their letters in the bin the same way I do all junk mail trying to get me to buy something I don't want or need.

Kayak10

Hooloovoo wrote: »

Once you've paid your first six months, after that you pay 1/12 of the annual cost per month. That's it. It's no more complicated than that.

That cost is £145.50 per year. Or £12.13 per month. Or £2.80 per week. I still don't understand why you are paying £5 per week. Was your last licence paid upfront in full and you have only recently (two weeks ago) converted to direct debit?

Where is the debt? I don't watch broadcast TV. I don't require a TV licence. I have no need to do any business with TVL. I have not debt with TVL. What's wrong with just putting their letters in the bin the same way I do all junk mail trying to get me to buy something I don't want or need.

The £2.80 a week is only good IF you start paying 6 months in advance also it does not work out like that as they expect the WHOLE payment well before the licence expires
If you don't that is when they start getting aggresive
As to you " not watching broadcast tv " No doubt you have other ways to I occupy your time
Probaly by writing on boards like this :-)

Kayak10

I'm not writing any more on here Except I will add the reply from BBC when I get it

bugslet

adindas wrote: »

If I do not need a license I will stop communicating with them, everytime I receive a letter from TVL I will bin it and never open it. I will never allow them to enter my property, I will never answer the door for them.

I know there seems to be a theory that if you give up watching TV, the licensing people hound you ever after, but that's not been my experience. I stopped watching TV last February, informed them, they sent a letter back saying it had been noted and if I did get a TV that I would need to get a license and that was it. Not heard from them since.

Cornucopia

Kayak10 wrote: »

... they expect the WHOLE payment well before the licence expires

No, that's very specifically not the case. Once the scheme has been running for 6 months, you pay 6 months (half) in advance and 6 months (half) in arrears. This applies to both the Monthly DD and Payment card schemes.

I suspect that if you come off the scheme (as you did), they would be within their rights to make you start again with double payments for the next 6 months, if your existing credit has been used up. (Don't know for sure whether they do that or not).

Cornucopia

bugslet wrote: »

I know there seems to be a theory that if you give up watching TV, the licensing people hound you ever after, but that's not been my experience. I stopped watching TV last February, informed them, they sent a letter back saying it had been noted and if I did get a TV that I would need to get a license and that was it. Not heard from them since.

I think it depends on where you live, whether you are a student or not, and general luck of the draw.

There is also some suggestion that women are particularly targeted, either by TVL staff preference, because they are more likely to open the door, by some quirk in the system, or a combination of all three.

I've used a variety of legal devices over the years, and found their "customer" services people to be very polite, and that my instructions have been followed perfectly. (No letters, no "visits").

SamLucille

It's all the rage to have a go at companies that send out chasing letters that look like something they're not.

Kayak10

Cornucopia wrote: »

No, that's very specifically not the case. Once the scheme has been running for 6 months, you pay 6 months (half) in advance and 6 months (half) in arrears. This applies to both the Monthly DD and Payment card schemes.

I suspect that if you come off the scheme (as you did), they would be within their rights to make you start again with double payments for the next 6 months, if your existing credit has been used up. (Don't know for sure whether they do that or not).

You make out your such an expert in these things yet you ARE very wrong
They start DEMANDING payments approx 6 months before the end of your licence to be completed approx 6 months into the new licence Well it was certainly like that in my case AND I did NOT come off the scheme Unless you call refusing to start paying in advance " coming off the scheme " ?

Kayak10

SamLucille wrote: »

It's all the rage to have a go at companies that send out chasing letters that look like something they're not.

SO IT SHOULD BE :mad::mad::mad:
If the general public stood up for their rights a bit more many companies would NOT use scare tactics