TV Licence letter received

GAZZAband

After some advice please. I've not had a TV licence at my house for about 3 years I don't watch any live TV only catch up and paid for streaming services and YouTube.
My son has accidentally played BBC IPLAYER a few times on his playstation the last few weeks and we got a letter detecting this and asking for the licence to be paid. 
My son has signed out of and deleted that app. 
Do I need to take any action or just ignore now this has been removed?
Thanks in advance 

Attican

Streaming services?

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ33

Do I need a TV Licence to watch or ‘stream’ programmes online?

Watching online

You need to be covered by a TV Licence to watch live on streaming services - such as ITVX, Channel 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go, YouTube, Netflix and Freely.

You don't need a TV Licence if you never watch live on any channel, pay TV service or streaming service, or use BBC iPlayer*.

This includes recording and downloading. On any device.

la531983

Throw the letter away. They have as much right to enter your house as the milkman does as it stands. 

Newbie_John

la531983 said:

Throw the letter away. They have as much right to enter your house as the milkman does as it stands. 

Yeah, but that will start their representative coming and knocking on a door and telling lies/being aggressive.

I surprisingly got a similar letter today, we don't watch live TV at all, the only person I can imagine is our 3 years toddler playing with a remote and somehow putting it on.
I guess I can get the fire stick and remove any BBC like items from easy access..

But can anything be achieved by contacting them? Or will it be like talking to a wall? 

Can I pay just for the months "we" supposedly watched something?

Olinda99

just ignore them and def don't contact them

in the very very very very unlikely anyone arrives at your house to let them in and don't say anything

delete any apps etc so it doesn't happen again

if at some point in the future you get an email asking you to confirm you don't need a license and should you wish to reply (I do) then use a different email address

Cornucopia

GAZZAband said:

After some advice please. I've not had a TV licence at my house for about 3 years I don't watch any live TV only catch up and paid for streaming services and YouTube.
My son has accidentally played BBC IPLAYER a few times on his playstation the last few weeks and we got a letter detecting this and asking for the licence to be paid. 
My son has signed out of and deleted that app. 
Do I need to take any action or just ignore now this has been removed?
Thanks in advance 

It depends on how honest you want to be.   You can probably safely ignore it as a genuine mistake that won't be repeated. 

Or, you can buy a Licence for a short period to cover the relevant length of time - I wouldn't bother trying to ask them to backdate it to the dates in question.   You'd buy a Licence and then cancel it, and TV Licences can now be held on a month-to-month basis.  

I doubt that either option would raise TVL's suspicions more than the other.

powerful_Rogue

Newbie_John said:

la531983 said:

Throw the letter away. They have as much right to enter your house as the milkman does as it stands. 

Yeah, but that will start their representative coming and knocking on a door and telling lies/being aggressive.

I surprisingly got a similar letter today, we don't watch live TV at all, the only person I can imagine is our 3 years toddler playing with a remote and somehow putting it on.
I guess I can get the fire stick and remove any BBC like items from easy access..

But can anything be achieved by contacting them? Or will it be like talking to a wall? 

Can I pay just for the months "we" supposedly watched something?

Knock Knock

Who's there?

TV Licencing

No thank you.

Job done.

FreeBear

powerful_Rogue said:

Newbie_John said:

la531983 said:

Throw the letter away. They have as much right to enter your house as the milkman does as it stands. 

Yeah, but that will start their representative coming and knocking on a door and telling lies/being aggressive.

I surprisingly got a similar letter today, we don't watch live TV at all, the only person I can imagine is our 3 years toddler playing with a remote and somehow putting it on.
I guess I can get the fire stick and remove any BBC like items from easy access..

But can anything be achieved by contacting them? Or will it be like talking to a wall? 

Can I pay just for the months "we" supposedly watched something?

Knock Knock

Who's there?

TV Licencing

No thank you.

Job done.

More like:

BANG BANG BANG

Who the f... are you ?

TV licencing.

F...Off.

Case (and door) closed.

Marvel1

Attican said:

Streaming services?

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ33

Do I need a TV Licence to watch or ‘stream’ programmes online?

Watching online

You need to be covered by a TV Licence to watch live on streaming services - such as ITVX, Channel 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go, YouTube, Netflix and Freely.

You don't need a TV Licence if you never watch live on any channel, pay TV service or streaming service, or use BBC iPlayer*.

This includes recording and downloading. On any device.

What point are you trying to make?

Cornucopia

Attican said:

Streaming services?

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ33

Do I need a TV Licence to watch or ‘stream’ programmes online?

Watching online

You need to be covered by a TV Licence to watch live on streaming services - such as ITVX, Channel 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go, YouTube, Netflix and Freely.

You don't need a TV Licence if you never watch live on any channel, pay TV service or streaming service, or use BBC iPlayer*.

This includes recording and downloading. On any device.

A good example of inadequate advice from TVL.   You categorically do not need a Licence to "watch live" on Youtube - you only need a Licence when the live content in question originates with a TV Broadcaster and is streamed concurrently with the scheduled broadcast over-the-air.

Newbie_John

Cornucopia said:

GAZZAband said:

After some advice please. I've not had a TV licence at my house for about 3 years I don't watch any live TV only catch up and paid for streaming services and YouTube.
My son has accidentally played BBC IPLAYER a few times on his playstation the last few weeks and we got a letter detecting this and asking for the licence to be paid. 
My son has signed out of and deleted that app. 
Do I need to take any action or just ignore now this has been removed?
Thanks in advance 

It depends on how honest you want to be.   You can probably safely ignore it as a genuine mistake that won't be repeated. 

Or, you can buy a Licence for a short period to cover the relevant length of time - I wouldn't bother trying to ask them to backdate it to the dates in question.   You'd buy a Licence and then cancel it, and TV Licences can now be held on a month-to-month basis.  

I doubt that either option would raise TVL's suspicions more than the other.

Thanks, I'll probably do that.
As long as I'd be happy to reject them, I'm worried that my wife will have a chat with them and pay for the license scared, also getting angry with me I've put us into debts 😅

I'll also get the fire stick ready to make sure if the kid ever gets the remote they won't press the "£20 fee" button.