More proof the TV licensing people are burks

[Jeros]

The TV licensing people have sent a nasty letter to the "legal occupier" of the "communal area" of our flat. Demanding that anyone watching tv will be blah blah blah.
They seem to think that the uni allows people to live in the communal area.

 

[Ezteq]

But dude, they have that van!!! Watch out they know all your secrets.

 

[Job]

Ha we turned our house from flats back into one when I left and they still kept sending letters to each old flat, so we rang and they said 'ignore it', so the letters got more official and they said 'ignore them'.
Then they got all county court and they said 'ignore them', so we asked to speak to someone in charge and he said 'Who told you to ignore them?'
So they updated the records and apologised..then as with all humongous databases promptly wiped all the changes and started the whole merry go round again.
Then they sent three seperate demand letters to the same address!
In fact it is still ongoing four years later, the guy at collections knows my
mum well and even he can't sort it out.

 

[Sparx]

i dont bother replyling to them
Look at it this way if say Egg Card sent you a letter saying "You dont have a credit card with us, thats outrageous, send us a letter back confirming you dont have a card" you would tell them to jog on

Same can be done to the TV licence people, and if they do come to your house NEVER let them in unless they have a warrant, which they wont. Most people think they have a right to enter your premises but they do not.

For the record i dont have a TV licence cause i dont have a TV all our TVs are actually Samsung Monitors with no TV receivers. And no i dont listen to any BBC radio channels i listen to Magic or Heart

 

[Laddey]

i used to work for TVL.


Ring them, it's a 2 button jobby to be deleted.

Theres a total of like 3 vans in England btw

Next step is an 'enforcement officer' knocking on your door

 

[Sparx]

i dont even open the letters its just junk mail to me, i lose absolutely no sleep over it. Let them waste their time. I went through the whole process of sending letters a couple of years ago now they hound me again, fuck em

 

[Laddey]

It's all dog shit.

If you fell into arrears with your account, or your direct debit repeatadly bounced you'd get a disciplinary. Haha!

 

[megadave]

i dont have a tv liscence but watch tv all day omg what will happen?

 

[Ctuchik]

i dont have a tv liscence but watch tv all day omg what will happen?

you will get a snail on your eye!

yep true story, happens all over here in sweden and i bet its the same all over the world. the kids on the commercial says so!

 

[Zede]

i dont have a tv liscence but watch tv all day omg what will happen?

David A & his hit squad will be a comin' round ta yours. They spent 4 fuckin months trying to film that 3 seconds of the lesser spotted african bacon mouse mating & were forced to cut the trip short due to LACK OF FUNDS.

Dave & his carin' nature progs are ALL people mention when they say why they paid said licence, they think it justifies buying it.

 

[old.Tohtori]

In Finland you can now own a TV, but the digi-box is a mark for payment.

Which is great news for console owners as if you don't own a digi, you don't have to pay.

 

[Sparx]

its always been like that in the UK. They word it so you think you need to have a licence if you have a TV but its only if you receive live feed

 

[old.Tohtori]

its always been like that in the UK. They word it so you think you need to have a licence if you have a TV but its only if you receive live feed

Yeah the difference in finland is that every household(apart from some farms etc further away owned houses) gets the feed.

 

[Sparx]

Technically its the same here but its easy to untune your TV etc and say you dont have a signal

 

[old.Tohtori]

Technically its the same here but its easy to untune your TV etc and say you dont have a signal

Ah ok, here we couldn't do that 'cause it's basically hard-wired in regular housing

Ofcourse the big difference is that in the UK living in your own house(not apartment building) is a bigger thing.

 

[Ezteq]

I have a tv licence because I know if I didn't get one I would be the bastard that got caught and had the book thrown at em.

 

[Laddey]

It's £142.50 a year, tight arses.

 

[Sparx]

the problem alot of people have is they are paying that on top of a sky/virgin/BT Vision bill

There should be some way now that things are going digital signal in the UK to have one fee or at least pay for what you want

 

[razeredge]

This guy on theregister had the right idea, maybe you should do the same, and pay with a check :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/plywood_cheque/

It's Friday, so we're sure the following heartwarming tale will cheer your final slog into the weekend: how Reg reader David Humpage is giving BT some serious grief with giant novelty cheques.

David wrote to the El Reg consumer affairs department explaining that a couple of years back he noticed he was being charged £4.50 a pop for paying his phone bills online. This, he suggests, actually costs the telco nothing, so why the charge?

Two years of correspondence later, BT admitted it didn't take a financial hit for processing online payments, but explained it "averaged together all the non-direct-debit payment methods, and on that basis it costs them £4.50".

David says: "Fair enough, I thought, I don't want to do business with this kind of dishonesty and anyway you haven't apologised about Phorm yet. So I left."

He continues: "As I'd been paying for over two years to have non-existent cheques cashed, I thought I may as well have something for this outlay, so my last cheque was sent blown up on A3 cardboard. Remember, it's legal to write a cheque on anything as long as it contains the right information - there are famous stories of a cheque written on a cow, or in one case on a fish. In the circumstances, I thought they got off pretty lightly."

BT didn't think so, and since dispatching his novelty cheque last November, David has "been deluged with calls from BT people who couldn't speak English and were clearly following a script".

The company also referred the matter to a debt collection agency, which claimed the cheque had bounced. In fact, clarified David's bank, it was never presented for payment.

BT then claimed the cheque rubbered "because it was non-standard" - something David nicely describes as "clearly bollocks".

David splendidly concludes: "I've had my solicitor write them several letters, pointing out that they've been paid with a legal cheque, and it's up to them to cash it. I've even offered to replace the cheque, though stipulating that there'll be a £25 admin charge and the replacement will be on plywood."

Well done that man. The current state of play is that David's solicitor has written to BT threatening to "take them to court if they didn't cash my cheque". He's currently awaiting a reply, while the debt collectors have fallen silent.

We emailed BT this morning asking for its position on giant novelty cheques. A press officer requested the phone number related to the bill in question, and promised to look into the matter. Watch this space... ®

 

[Access Denied]

Title fail. You spelt Berks wrong =P However, you're right, they are. Complete waste of time even trying to sort it out. Let them make a visit.

 

[Jeros]

Title fail. You spelt Berks wrong =P However, you're right, they are. Complete waste of time even trying to sort it out. Let them make a visit.

Spelling Nazi!

Well considering at my last place GETTING A TV LICENSE did not stop them sending letters i agree, fuck em. They can come if they want, they wont find a TV (that works).

 

[Kagato]

It's the arrogance of the whole BBC that pisses me off.

When I brought my house 8 years ago, by myself at a very young age, I was naturally on a very tight budget, so the first thing to go was the TV.

For the first 1 and a half years I did not own a TV or a license, and I honestly did not miss it one bit! (Admittedly I was addicted to daoc instead).

However I constantly got harrassing letters from the BBC demanding to know who the new occupier was.

I considered it non of their damn business, and sent them a letter saying pretty much the same thing only slightly less bluntly. But rather then take the hint, despite being informed that the previous occupier had died, they continued to send me letters every other month wanting to know who lived there and threatening that they would send people round to check if I'm using a TV or not and so on.

Their very attitude alone made me detirmined to fight them, even though I really didn't care about who knew I lived there or not. So I just kept on ignoring them and the few times I did reply I was always careful to not give them any personal information whatsoever, simply telling them the last occupier had died and that was all they needed to know.

I find it totally rediculous that in this age of digital cable TV where we can subscribe to any specific channels and TV services we want be it sports, porn or entertainment channels at will and even pay-per-view events. How is it that we STILL have to pay for an entire set of channels wether we like it or not on threat of heavy fines?

It sickens me to the stomache, specially when so much of the license fee is being wasted and stupid websites I don't use, foreign language channels for minorities I don't want to use and very few of them bother to use either, obscure radio stations I never want to listen too, multi-million £ wages for 'celebrities' like Jonathon Ross whom I neither like nor want to watch and a news channel that is so blatently Labour biased they may as well be wearing red vote gordan badges.

 

[Sparx]

Title fail. You spelt Berks wrong =P However, you're right, they are. Complete waste of time even trying to sort it out. Let them make a visit.

Its funny that so many people use the term Berk but dont know its cockney for Berkshire Hunt (i wont avoid the filter this time, im sure you can work it out)

 

[Ch3tan]

That's because they aren't proper Londoner's like me and , well not quite you, cause your half Scottish.

 

[Sparx]

haha half scottish im 100% scottish, but been here so long now im hated by both sides of the border

 

[Ch3tan]

If it makes you feel better, I don't hate you because your Scottish. I just hate you because you are you.

 

[Sparx]

its nothing personal i just hate your personality

 

[Ch3tan]

Lol

 

[Access Denied]

Hehe, I was going to point out the Cockney Slang for Berk but I couldn't arsed. I grew up in London =P

 

[Ezteq]

omg it's all true they are complete donuts!!!

I got my tv licence all set up and paid for before I even moved in here...which serves me right because there was no tv reception for 2 weeks so was paying for something I couldn't access lol (ah well!) anyway I got it all set up to be paid via direct debit like a good little nerd and yesterday there is a letter for me; well for 'The Current Occupier!' stating that...

We see you don't have a tv licence, we shall be sending our representitives round immediately to intimidate you and try and get access into yur house even though we're not actually entitled to come poking about in your stuff...we'll insist we are entitled to anyway because we're TV Inspectors!!! If you do not have a licence because this address is currently unoccupied then please ignore this letter.

Ooook so basically you don't know if anyone is actually living here or not then eh??

tbh I piddy da foo that tries to come in here, he'd get wiffle batted straight the fook out with orders to go check his god damned records god dammit.