Answering "no" to all questions on TV licensing website but it still says I have to by a license?

smellthemoney

tallac said:

The TV license survey is trash. The first 4 questions are phrased along the lines of:
"Do you or does anyone in your household ever watch ..."

Then the final 2 questions are phrased like:
"Can you confirm that you and your household never watch ..."

So if you don't need a TV license then you have to answer No for the first 4 and Yes for the last 2. They effectively switched the question from a positive phrasing to a negative one.

Either this is intentional to make it more difficult to fill in the form or it's just really really bad user experience design and the person who created that layout needs to be fired!

Much agree with you. if you google tv licensing you also find their licensing URL is different from that in the letter they sent you!. 

silverwhistle

No television at home, but do I ever watch TV? Er, yes. I see it round friends' houses occasionally, and I watch football down the village pub if my team are on. You'd have to ask the pub as to what channel.. When I go to watch live football I sometimes pass by a 'spoons for a quick pint and they have random TV on too..

Cornucopia

Sometimes, it's tricky to know how best to describe BBC/TV Licening for optimum understanding.  

In the context of this discussion, neither the "viewing habits" form or the No Licence Needed process that it is part of are legally required.   So, any implication from BBC/TV to the contrary is untrue.  

The overall flavour is something like bullying - inviting you to undertake "simple steps" with the implied benefit that they will leave you alone (and then they don't leave you alone), and also the flip-flop of things being important and then unimportant at their whim.   

Anything they say should be taken with a massive pinch of salt....