TV Licence Super Thread
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If you're paying (or not lol) for youtube, for Netflix for amazon etc etc.. It's getting to the point that the TV licence (+ maybe sky) is the biggest saving and easiest thing to give up.
Terrestrial TV is slowly going the way of the VHS.
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Cancelled a couple of years ago too. Still get the letters, they seem to go in the cycle of……..you need to pay a TV licence, we’re escalating this, someone will be coming to your house, and then back around again.
If I had a fireplace I’d keep them all for lighting it!
If I had a fireplace I’d keep them all for lighting it!
I cancelled via the bbc website and just get an email each year asking if I still need a licence - no letters through the post.
Lots of people in this thread, myself included have said filling out the "we do not need a licence" form didn't work or only worked for a limited amount of time. Which is partly why its so frustrating certain posters come in here making it sound like its our fault and its easy to fix, when its not.
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There are few things in this world that really get my back up, but the licensing people are one of those things.
Their attitude absolutely sucks. Their assumption is that people are disgusting criminals and that shows through in almost everything they do.
They absolutely will NOT stop hassling people.
When you think that there are plenty of other subscriptions where the company bends over backwards to please and treat you nicely, the BBC stands alone in it's utter contempt for it's customers.
I don't think they are very good at counting. For me, they think 2 years is about 18 months. I let them waste their money for a few months until I get bored of the spam and tell them the occupier doesn't need one.
For me, probably the most annoying thing is that they seem to have heaps of resource to throw at this nonsense - sending Capita death-squad goons around to harass people over a ******* television license, it's just not an important aspect of life that warrants that sort of attention - it's a ******* TV, it's not an important thing that requires dedicated enforcement departments dragging people into courtrooms ffs, it's ridiculous.
It's all just backwards nonsense, it really winds me up - **** these people, fire them all immediately.
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We had someone at the door the other month, I just closed it again. They then started to try and record the tv from the window, I just called the police and asked them to remove them, which they did.
I've since received no letters. I'm not normally a rude person, but they are harassing.
I've since received no letters. I'm not normally a rude person, but they are harassing.
Is it allowed to film through someone's windows so intentionally like that? What if someone was getting changed.
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The letters are disgusting, all about threats and intimidation.
I very much doubt it, absolute idiot he was. Not sure why he even thought it was appropriate to apart from the TV is visible from the window. I can only assume he was trying to capture evidence as to what I was watching and where. It'll be very different if he returns though.
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Saw a video on youtube where the TV inspector was doing that, and his young kids were getting changed downstairs.
teeth and bones would be breaking..
I've had half the Amazon in paper through my door from them over the years and I couldn't even tell you what they look like. All mouth and no trousers.
I find their limpdicked intimidation tactics quite amusing, but then I live amongst a lot of elderly people who aren't all in the best state mentally and if those absolute scrotum lickers knock on their doors with their pansy-ass attitude I'll shoo them away like the vermin that they are. Don't **** with my granny girlfriends, as my wife calls them.
Also also I really want them to come around. I got a letter asking me if I'm in on the 28th and I'm wondering how to get the most out of it. I'm thinking of WFH that day to see if they turn up, and if they do, I'll have a soundtrack of screaming playing in the background and I'll open the door like this, and invite them in:
If they decline, I'll just follow them around the 'hood begging them to come in until they get the message.
If they don't turn up however, I need to find a way to get them to pay for my day off. No idea how or if I could achieve that tho.
I find their limpdicked intimidation tactics quite amusing, but then I live amongst a lot of elderly people who aren't all in the best state mentally and if those absolute scrotum lickers knock on their doors with their pansy-ass attitude I'll shoo them away like the vermin that they are. Don't **** with my granny girlfriends, as my wife calls them.
Also also I really want them to come around. I got a letter asking me if I'm in on the 28th and I'm wondering how to get the most out of it. I'm thinking of WFH that day to see if they turn up, and if they do, I'll have a soundtrack of screaming playing in the background and I'll open the door like this, and invite them in:
If they decline, I'll just follow them around the 'hood begging them to come in until they get the message.
If they don't turn up however, I need to find a way to get them to pay for my day off. No idea how or if I could achieve that tho.
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Although people talk about the per annum costs for the TV licence when you work it out it’s around £15.xx per month so quite a substantial cost which I’d rather use on services that I can enable and disable monthly as and when it suits me.
We hardly ever watch any live tv so wasn’t that difficult to stop but the main reason I cancelled was I was away out of the country for 3 months, my renewal came up while I was away so I didn’t renew. On returning I renewed and the cheeky buggers back dated it. Emailed them to state that I didn’t want it backdated and they offered no real solution which is how I ended up cancelling.
We hardly ever watch any live tv so wasn’t that difficult to stop but the main reason I cancelled was I was away out of the country for 3 months, my renewal came up while I was away so I didn’t renew. On returning I renewed and the cheeky buggers back dated it. Emailed them to state that I didn’t want it backdated and they offered no real solution which is how I ended up cancelling.
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Yes, they do back-date TV licenses automatically if you cancel one, or don't buy a new one when the old one expires, and then later buy a new one. The way to get round it is to have someone else buy the next TV license for your address.
However, even if you get a new TV license towards the end of a month they will back-date it to the first day of that month. (There is clearly no reasonable justification for that as you might have only just bought a TV, hence decided to get a license.)
I suppose you could just do it under a made up name.
Definitely not allowed. That's peeping tom territory. Probably more than one law being broken by doing that. Harassment, GDPR. They might be hauled in for sexual offences if they capture something along those lines.
You aren't even allowed to have cameras overlooking someones front lawn without permission.
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Not to mention invasion of privacy and likely trespassing too if you already told them to leave