TV Licence Super Thread

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Diddums said:
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:

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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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They don't turn up on that date. The letters are just generic scare tactics to make you panic that there's a 'serious investigation' going on and agents will be visiting you.
 
Teknobry said:
They don't turn up on that date. The letters are just generic scare tactics to make you panic that there's a 'serious investigation' going on and agents will be visiting you.
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Yea I've had the same, they never turned up. Now I have another saying they are super serial this time!
 
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I got that very same letter with the 25th December date. Only once have they ever actually turned up when they said the would. Told them no thanks and closed the door
 
We cancelled ours in October ish 2024 and had nothing as of yet.

The other half did call and said why we wanted to cancel it etc but they try everything possible to not get you to cancel it.

We only ever watched the news for about 20 mins a day and that was really it. Everything we watch these days is either on YouTube or on our Plex server
 
ED209 said:
We cancelled ours in October ish 2024 and had nothing as of yet.

The other half did call and said why we wanted to cancel it etc but they try everything possible to not get you to cancel it.

We only ever watched the news for about 20 mins a day and that was really it. Everything we watch these days is either on YouTube or on our Plex server
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People need to stop letting them know your intentions of why a TV licence is not required.
Why do people do this......because they threaten you with sending "the boys" round. Do not give them the satisfaction.

You have no legal obligation to tell a company you don't require their services.

If we all stop telling them we don't require one, it will make their jobs even harder.
 
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sityeuropa said:
People need to stop letting them know your intentions of why a TV licence is not required.
Why do people do this......because they threaten you with sending "the boys" round. Do not give them the satisfaction.

You have no legal obligation to tell a company you don't require their services.

If we all stop telling them we don't require one, it will make their jobs even harder.
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Never had anything from them since cancelling and the other half said her reasoning for cancelling was because she did not want to be funding people like Huw Edwards
 
When I first moved into this place I paid for a TV License, had their blokes turn up at my door saying I had no TV License according to their records. Turns out that was for the previous tenant. I showed them the TV License I'd paid for and they left. Haven't seen them again in 19 years, TV License set to auto renew every year.
 
nlel1975 said:
When I first moved into this place I paid for a TV License, had their blokes turn up at my door saying I had no TV License according to their records. Turns out that was for the previous tenant. I showed them the TV License I'd paid for and they left. Haven't seen them again in 19 years, TV License set to auto renew every year.
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So you’re paying for it and wondering why they’ve never revisited?
 
We usually get the yearly cycles or whatever time frame it is.

Will get a few letters, they escalate. The red letter comes. They say a random date.
I wait eagerly in my gimp suit (provided by @Diddums unwashed... Grim).
Alas, each time I'm disappointed as they never turn up!


That was until my gf decided to watch something on iplayer with her address details in. She got a letter saying she'd watched iplayer and had to pay. I told her she's paying for her derp. So she paid. Then cancelled a couple of months later. Haven't had a letter since.

But they do obviously have her name now. So I assume we will get letters at some point soon.
 
The thing that makes me laugh is they use the most pathetic attempts at threatening possible, and I can't believe that an official organisation full of grown adults actually stoop to such low levels. The whole "your I99019 is due!", "we've opened an XX983 against your address!", "99UFN2 now in effect for your address!". The codes mean absolutely nothing, just a string of random letters and numbers pulled out of thin air to sound official. It's like a 6 year old attacking you with their "super mega laser death beam". Waste of the postman's time, waste of my time, waste of paper, it's an absolute joke of a system.
 
I was disappointed last evening when there was a knock on the door. I opened it to a man with a clipboard and an ID card hanging on a lanyard from around his neck. I thought it was a BBC licence salesman and it was finally my time to shine by closing the door in his face. But sadly it was just the Lib Dems campaigning for our election today (my area is one of the few having elections today).

Dammit, when am I going to get a real visit!
 
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Hades said:
I was disappointed last evening when there was a knock on the door. I opened it to a man with a clipboard and an ID card hanging on a lanyard from around his neck. I thought it was a BBC licence salesman and it was finally my time to shine by closing the door in his face. But sadly it was just the Lib Dems campaigning for our election today (my area is one of the few having elections today).

Dammit, when am I going to get a real visit!
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Still had the chance to slam the door in someones face regardless :D
 
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