Upfront payments for TV Licence?

wild666

Cornucopia Said:

The additional 6 months credit will be refunded if you ever cancel your Licence or if you change your payment method.

From a period until 1/1/2017 they refunded in quarters, they could effectively take over two months payments from those who cancelled their licence in months 4, 7, 10 and repay just 3 months payments. I fell into this trap in 2016 when I cancelled the licence after 5 years. I believe someone threatened TVL with court so they dropped  the quarterly refund option after their legal team said they would most likely lose the case.

baser999

dank_2 said:

I still don't get it 

No other service makes you pay double upfront or pay in advance? I don't understand why they can't just charge £13.25 a month from day one. A bit morbid, but does the extra six months get paid back when I pop my clogs?

Depends if you’re still watching your TV 😂

wild666

The biggest con with the TV licence is the weekly payment plan. You pay £6 per week but they don't tell you that the weekly payment can be reduced after about 6 months. When the fee increases to £169.50 in April anyone paying weekly will be able to drop the weekly payments to £3.26 after paying the £6 for 29 weeks. After paying £3.26 for the next 52 weeks it will have to be increased to 1/52 of the new licence fee.
TVL NEVER tell anybody that they can reduce the weekly fee in the hope that they will continue to pay £6 weekly for years or decades. If the person suddenly stops paying weekly TVL will be quick to pounce and take the person to court even if they've paid £6 per week for years.

km1500

every payment will be credited to the account so if someone does pay six pounds a week for a year then £362 will be credited to their tvl account.

Neil_Jones

wild666 said:

The biggest con with the TV licence is the weekly payment plan. You pay £6 per week but they don't tell you that the weekly payment can be reduced after about 6 months. When the fee increases to £169.50 in April anyone paying weekly will be able to drop the weekly payments to £3.26 after paying the £6 for 29 weeks. After paying £3.26 for the next 52 weeks it will have to be increased to 1/52 of the new licence fee.
TVL NEVER tell anybody that they can reduce the weekly fee in the hope that they will continue to pay £6 weekly for years or decades. If the person suddenly stops paying weekly TVL will be quick to pounce and take the person to court even if they've paid £6 per week for years.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/pay-for-your-tv-licence/ways-to-pay/payment-card - "[Re: weekly payments[ You'll usually pay for your first licence in 26 payments, one each week. After that you'll switch to fortnightly payments instead."

So that's £156, which is near enough one year paid for in six months and future payments go towards the next one, which is exactly the same thing as the monthly direct debit...