TV Licence visit? What next

KILL_BILL

adouglasmhor wrote: »

You need a license if the TV is capable of receiving television - whether you use it or not!

THATS BOLLOKS M8

happyevs

So Hands up whos actualy got a licence as im behind with payments again by a month LOL

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

adouglasmhor wrote: »

You need a license if the TV is capable of receiving television - whether you use it or not!

Wrong. The licence is for viewing. You are legally entitled to have a TV on the property with no licence providing you do NOT use it for broadcasting,

If you search on this board or the warnings there is quite a long thread on there. One of the posts contains a letter scanned in from TV licencing that states this,

IWasWondering...

I have got a TV licence. I still get threatening letters telling me I need a licence. If they sent me a nice polite letter I would tell them I already have a licence BUT as they seem incapable of politeness I cannot be a***d telling them, especially not at my expense. Read them then bin them. If anyone ever knocks at my door I will tell them to p*** o**.
I pay monthly by DD. Couple of years ago I realised that I hadn't received my TV licence. Rang them up to ask why. They told me I had rang them and told them I had moved to Bristol. I'd no idea I'd moved, honestly!

IvanOpinion

They have been threatening me for 14 months and every single letter has been binned .. even the one that said an officer had seen a tV through the window .. of course he bloody did there are 4 in the house .. all connected all working ... the bit they don't get is that nobody lives in the house.

ivan

roddydogs

So lets get this right-all i have to do is (A) Not buy a TV licence, then bin all the threatening letters, and not let anybody in, and i will get away with it, simple, why didnt anybody think of this before?

horizon

Thought I'd add my experiences at the hands of these to$$ers to the thread.

Our TV licence ran out at the end of August, it was a transferred one from our previous address. We moved into this house in mid July.

A guy knocked on the door in the early part of August and asked to see our Licence. I showed it to him, and explained we'd just moved in. He said fine, made a phone call to update the details etc, and all was well until the early part of September.

As our licence had then expired, I went online and paid for a new one in full with my card.
I recieved an email saying thanks a new licence will be issued shortly, etc, etc....


A couple of days later I recieved another email saying I couldn't pay for my licence this way, as I had a small amount of money on "deposit" in their tv licence savings scheme (card which replaced buying stamps)
(There is (was) nothing on their website saying you can't buy a licence if you have a savings card)

I told them to keep towards the next one and issue my licence.

I was obviously dealing with a load of numpty's, beacause I told this to three seperate staff in three different replies.
Each time they passed my reply onto a colleague, perhaps they were hoping to find one with a brain cell, and the ability to make a decision ?!!:D

I was losing patience by this time, and told the latest numpty to reply, that they had more than enough of my money sat in their account to cover the cost of a licence, and to issue it forthwith. If they chose not to I didn't care, as I had a copy of their reply thanking me for the payment, and my bank statement showing I'd paid them:mad:

I hadn't heard anything from them for a few weeks when a letter arrived, saying we were unlicenced:rolleyes:

I chose to ignore this letter.

Upon checking my bank statement a while later, I found they had returned my payment back to my bank account, thus making us unlicenced again

I then went a pay point and attempted to pay for a licence this way, this didn't work as our address wasn't recognised !

So it was back on the website, where I once again paid for a licence with my card, this time I put it in my wife's name.

This seemed to have done the trick, as got a thank you reply and a couple of days later the licence was available for printing off, which I did.:T

I thought this would be the end of it...........but no !
I have since recieved another letter, saying we are unlicenced, and have failed to communicate with them, and we now need to reply within 14 days or they will take us to court etc, etc :eek: :eek:

I am now awaiting a letter or a visit inviting me to go to court.
I have a tv licence and plenty of email communications between myself and them, which I will gladly show to the judge.
The lack of communication is clearly between their departments, not me and them. But this comes as no surprise to me, as unfortunately Capita run my companies pension scheme, and do a sh1te job of it:rolleyes:
If and when it gets to court, can I make a claim for my time, transport costs, and all the harrasment / hassle they have caused me ?

Or shall I just start to ignore them ?

KILL_BILL

horizon wrote: »

Thought I'd add my experiences at the hands of these to$$ers to the thread.

Our TV licence ran out at the end of August, it was a transferred one from our previous address. We moved into this house in mid July.

A guy knocked on the door in the early part of August and asked to see our Licence. I showed it to him, and explained we'd just moved in. He said fine, made a phone call to update the details etc, and all was well until the early part of September.

As our licence had then expired, I went online and paid for a new one in full with my card.
I recieved an email saying thanks a new licence will be issued shortly, etc, etc....


A couple of days later I recieved another email saying I couldn't pay for my licence this way, as I had a small amount of money on "deposit" in their tv licence savings scheme (card which replaced buying stamps)
(There is (was) nothing on their website saying you can't buy a licence if you have a savings card)

I told them to keep towards the next one and issue my licence.

I was obviously dealing with a load of numpty's, beacause I told this to three seperate staff in three different replies.
Each time they passed my reply onto a colleague, perhaps they were hoping to find one with a brain cell, and the ability to make a decision ?!!:D

I was losing patience by this time, and told the latest numpty to reply, that they had more than enough of my money sat in their account to cover the cost of a licence, and to issue it forthwith. If they chose not to I didn't care, as I had a copy of their reply thanking me for the payment, and my bank statement showing I'd paid them:mad:

I hadn't heard anything from them for a few weeks when a letter arrived, saying we were unlicenced:rolleyes:

I chose to ignore this letter.

Upon checking my bank statement a while later, I found they had returned my payment back to my bank account, thus making us unlicenced again

I then went a pay point and attempted to pay for a licence this way, this didn't work as our address wasn't recognised !

So it was back on the website, where I once again paid for a licence with my card, this time I put it in my wife's name.

This seemed to have done the trick, as got a thank you reply and a couple of days later the licence was available for printing off, which I did.:T

I thought this would be the end of it...........but no !
I have since recieved another letter, saying we are unlicenced, and have failed to communicate with them, and we now need to reply within 14 days or they will take us to court etc, etc :eek: :eek:

I am now awaiting a letter or a visit inviting me to go to court.
I have a tv licence and plenty of email communications between myself and them, which I will gladly show to the judge.
The lack of communication is clearly between their departments, not me and them. But this comes as no surprise to me, as unfortunately Capita run my companies pension scheme, and do a sh1te job of it:rolleyes:
If and when it gets to court, can I make a claim for my time, transport costs, and all the harrasment / hassle they have caused me ?

Or shall I just start to ignore them ?

ignore them

personally i would have spent the money on booze and not brought a license in the first place

Blacksheep1979

that's it ignore them and when it ends up in court ignore them again and keep going until you get the bailiffs knocking at the door and the damaged credit rating - wise words...

drbluebox

With me they have been "ok" well apart from when I was 17 and bought a tv and gave my parents address and I got threatening letters there, and when I moved a few months later I decided not to take my new tv with me in case my new student digs were dodgy.

About 5 months after this I bought a second hand 20" tv, and got a letter saying I had no license despite the tenancy agreement being for the whole house not per tenant plus no locks on doors and the rude person on other end said it was illegal and students couldnt share a license and I had to buy my own as did the others in the house(and we all paid towards license)

After much arguing and getting the person whos name on the license on the phone they agreed it was ok.

4 years ago I moved to a cheap bedsit and had a weak signal which got nothing without a booster and some channels not at all so I contacted them a lot and they kept promising to send someone round, but in 3 years of living there they only came around about 6 times each when I was out, and I was told it was ok to own a tv as long as I didnt use it for television.

The cleaner did let him in once and he saw a tv in the living room(where there was no aerial anyway) and they never bothered with demanding a license for that.