scootz
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:06 AM |
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Bloody Bureaucrats (TV Licensing... this time!)
Aaaaargh - what's gone wrong with the world!
We have a valid TV license which is in my wife's name and correctly details our address.
I go and purchase a new TV for the kitchen - the shop advise the TV licensing folk - then I get a letter from the the licensing folk saying that they
have no record of a licence being held at that address in MY name. And... ?
So now, I'VE got to contact THEM to explain the situation!!! 
Well, it might be childish, but I'm not playing their silly little games. I won't waste my time (and money) by having to make contact
with them when there is CLEARLY no need! They know the house is covered by a valid TV license!
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:09 AM |
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you gave your real details when buying a TV, why?
pay cash, give some else's details...
and no I don't have one, why should I? BBC programs are rubbish
[Edited on 31/10/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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iank
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:19 AM |
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Should provide some amusement, this guys been keeping a blog of all the different threatening letters he's received.
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/index.htm#Most%20recent%20letter
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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jabbahutt
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:34 AM |
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I agree with you, simply ignore them and let it escalate until the point where you can turn the tables on them.
Let's not forget innocent until proven guilty so let them keep writing and threatening until they prove you've done something wrong.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:39 AM |
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I haven't had a licence for about 4 and half years where I live, never had a letter yet and I'm sure my big telly could be detected from
space it fizzes so much with static and its wired into the stereo for the sound and my Xbox, a got freeview box too loads of channels, bbc ones are
poop
Tips - don't have an aerial outside, hide it in the loft, position the TV so it cannot be seen from outside through a window, close the curtains
at night (black out ones) so no one can see the light. If you have a dish, put it in the garden on the ground surrounded by plants and paint it black
(doesn't need to be fixed to the wall...
[Edited on 31/10/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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jabbahutt
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:48 AM |
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Maybe everyone should stop paying as a protest to the complete waste of money employing Mr Ross on such an obscene salary which we're paying.
[Edited on 31/10/08 by jabbahutt]
[Edited on 31/10/08 by jabbahutt]
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:49 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I haven't had a licence for about 4 and half years .... my big telly could be detected from space ......
On the other hand I don't have a TV and haven't for more than 10 years, and get letters about every three months threatening to take me to
court - I've taken to completely ignoring them. If you tell them you don't have a TV they first don't believe you, then eventually
admit you haven't. After a couple of months the computer must update as the letters start again......
Mr Whippy - are you happy that everyone else is subsidising your entertainment?
Chris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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Jasper
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:49 AM |
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I bought a TV and had it delivered to my shop address. They now want me to pay a licence here! I called them and explained, they were very nice, said
I had to fill out a form they will send me saying that I don't use it in the shop ..... me thinks that will go straight in the bin - why should
I have to sign something saying I'm NOT using a telly here ?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 10:54 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrsgrain
Mr Whippy - are you happy that everyone else is subsidising your entertainment?
Chris
Do I care...nope...I'm not the one who's daft enough to pay it, I love getting out of paying for stuff, means more money for me 
really its the BBC that's acting criminal, charging for services that I'm not even using, it’s one thing having to sit through adverts but
because they don’t want to be funded like every other broadcaster they simply use their ties to the government to blanked charge everyone regardless
if their programs are being watched. Shocking.
[Edited on 31/10/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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02GF74
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:02 AM |
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LOL ^^^^ he must be the saddest git on the web!
hmmm, seems I was wrong about the TV thing; see here: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nm/index/your_world/communications/television_licences.htm
You don't need a television licence if a TV set cannot receive TV programmes and is used only:
* for close circuit monitoring
* for watching pre-recorded videos or DVDs
* as a computer monitor – see under heading You don't use your television set or other device to watch or record broadcast programmes.
[Edited on 31/10/08 by 02GF74]
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smart51
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:06 AM |
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Some years ago I had all of this. I actually had a TV licence. It didn't stop them writing. I even had a visit, whilst I was out, and they
left a card through the door. I wrote to them several times and phoned them on a couple of occasions. Still I got the letters.
Eventually, I got a piece of A4 lined paper and, with a pen gripped in a fist, wrote in 4 line high block capitals: "I have a TV licence. Get
this in to your thick skulls and stop harrassing me". I never heard from them again.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:12 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
LOL ^^^^ he must be the saddest git on the web!
hmmm, seems I was wrong about the TV thing; see here: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nm/index/your_world/communications/television_licences.htm
You don't need a television licence if a TV set cannot receive TV programmes and is used only:
* for close circuit monitoring
* for watching pre-recorded videos or DVDs
* as a computer monitor – see under heading You don't use your television set or other device to watch or record broadcast programmes.
[Edited on 31/10/08 by 02GF74]
That may have been amended now as you also need a licence if you have a computer or mobile thats capable of viewing tv channels.
Mistral Motorsport
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david4
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:13 AM |
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And with what as just happend on radio 2 with them two clowns and the money there on!!!make,s you wonder why you sould pay........
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Moorron
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:24 AM |
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yep had this too, me and the missus aint married but live in the same house, Tv liscense is in her name but comes out of our joint bank account so my
name is visible to them. Bought a second Tv and they sent me a letter thru which i have ignored. Waiting for them to come to the door so i can give
them a piece of my mind.
That was about 5 months ago.
Sorry about my spelling, im an engineer and only work in numbers.
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:25 AM |
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Nah, ignore the letters. I've had this too when I was in the RAF. Each room within the block had to have its own license and with people coming
and going quite often there were loads of rooms on the hit list for letters.
Strange though that in the Sgt's mess. One license was deemed adequate for the whole block. Another example of class/rank discrimination in the
forces there!
I sodding hate having to pay the TV license, it's an absolute rip off. Its not even as though BBC are any good! I only watch Top Gear when
it's shown, which is like 7 episodes every 6 months but I would be willing to sacrifice that. They seem to have completely lost the ability to
produce comedy and they hang on to decrepit old farts because they're an "institution" and are the "good old BBC"! The
war is over, people have moved on. I don't even listen to BBC radio because that's a load of crap too. Radio 1 speaks for itself and now
so does Radio 2!
Channel 4 recently applied to have some funding from the licensing fee and were told to ram it. They obviously don't have the right connections.
The Polish in North Manchester are refusing to pay their fee as they said they are only watching Polish TV True that.
My neighbour doesn't have a telly either, in his words " if I can't eat it I don't need it". He had to take the
licensing people into his house and show them he had no telly. Same when the SKY people came mithering at the door, they simply couldn't believe
he didn't have a telly so he dragged them in too.
I've always said that if someone designed a television that simply could not receive BBC and therefore was license free then they would
absolutely fly off the shelves and the BBC would start to crumble and realise how cack it really is but I imagine some government busy body would put
a block to that
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DarrenW
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 11:50 AM |
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Ahhhhhhh - that explains why when i bought a new TV after moving house i got a snotty letter advising that no licence was registered at the address in
my name. I wondered where they got the details from.
I take it Curry's etc dont believe in client confidentiality etc.
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02GF74
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 12:05 PM |
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by law(?) the seller has to take your details and pass it to the TV license people.
Someone on another forum bought a set top box from Tesco, paid cash but gave clubcarb and received the letter from TV L P.
They are watching you, you know! 
Have you sold the Mac1?
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SeaBass
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 12:09 PM |
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I've been looking after a totally empty house that belonged to a deceased relative...
I received a notification from those jokers about the TV license, did the decent thing and informed them that the owner had died and the property had
been emptied. They said that they could only add that to the system for 30 days. I was pretty pissed off and explained in simple terms that my Aunt
would NOT be coming back from the dead and the property was unlikely to be sold for at least 6 months... Needless to say they've delighted in
sending RED letters to nobody since the 30 days lapsed... Numpties
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scootz
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 05:26 PM |
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I wish the public would all just agree not to pay their TV licence. The Beeb was once a credible broadcaster and their programmes made the tax
bearable.
They are now so dumbed-down and dross laden that I think its an absolute outrage that we have to continue subsidising them!
Surely we should have the freedom to choose what to watch and what not to? I'll happily have the Beeb channels blocked from my dish if it means
I don't have to pay the licence.
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JoelP
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| posted on 31/10/08 at 05:40 PM |
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we should start a campaign, to all cancel DDs on a predetermined date with enough notice to get everyone on it. Sadly, too many people are scared of
the bloody mythical detector vans...
i wouldnt have a license if i was single, but the wife doesnt have the balls (thankfully ) to tell the gadger to wee off when he comes knocking.
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James
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 10:06 PM |
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Radio4 is worth the licence fee alone.*
Switch off your TV, work on the car instead, listen to Radio4 and actually learn something useful while you're getting the car done!
I don't pay the licence fee... but then I only have TV for DVDs so don't need to. Have no aerial here so if someone turns up at the door
(they've threatened to by letter) then it's easy to prove.
The BBC, along with the NHS, is one of the better things about this country.
How could you possibly want to see more adverts! I'm astounded!
Cheers,
James
*not that I'm saying you need licence fee for Radio- you don't!
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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trogdor
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| posted on 25/2/09 at 10:20 AM |
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Radio 4 does have some of the best comedy at the week ends, there are some programs on the BBC that i watch, though thinking about it, its only really
Top Gear and QI!
Its channel 4 and its varients that we tend to watch!
[Edited on 25/2/09 by trogdor]
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kipper
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| posted on 25/2/09 at 10:34 AM |
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radio 4 for me
the licence is worth it just for the Count Arthur strong comedy programe.
It has me in tears
Where did that go?
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coozer
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| posted on 25/2/09 at 10:48 AM |
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Interesting to see peeps with no telly's. What keeps you entertained when vegetating on the couch??
One of my mates didn't have a telly after his wife left and took it with her. They knocked on his door a few times and he tld them to pi€€
off.
They came back with a copper and a warrant and when he let them in they searched the house looking in all the cupboards until it was obvious he
didn't have one. When they noticed he had a radio they insisted he needed one for that. At that point the copper saw some sense and called a
halt, instructing the licence bloke to get out!
Don't forget its a licence to receive radio waves so what's the score with car radio's???
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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iank
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| posted on 25/2/09 at 11:32 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by kipper
the licence is worth it just for the Count Arthur strong comedy programe.
It has me in tears
Never 'got' count arthur, but "Cabin Pressure" last night was brilliant - and is on iplayer.
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Anonymous
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