TV Licence Super Thread

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Evosparki said:
I am so very, very looking forward to a visit from their fraud guys, I'll let them in and show them all of my disconnected coax cables, and give them a proper hear full of what a... white stain their company is.
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for the avoidance of any doubt it is probably best to just remove the cables and and not have them readily available to show in the first place + de-tune the TV

if they're in a state where they look like they could have been yanked out seconds before the door was opened then the evidence you're choosing to present to them is less strong - remember you're choosing to let them in order to prove you don't need a licence so if doing that I'd remove any possible cause for them to be suspicious
 
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IvanDobskey said:
The licence is for BBC, which I don't watch. Yet I still have to pay for it.

How is that legal?
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It's legal because there isn't a law against it. Fairly obvious I'd imagine.

We all have to pay for lots of things we don't use. I don't use commuter rail in London yet I pay towards it though tax.
 
You only need a TV license if you watch "live" broadcasts from the BBC including from the iPlayer.
You can watch catch-up BBC stuff from other companies ie NowTV, Amazon etc without a license but you need a license if you watch anything that is being broadcast live from the BBC. Biggest jobs worth's ever.
Gladly I pretty much never watch any of their stuff anyway.
 
Evosparki said:
You only need a TV license if you watch "live" broadcasts from the BBC including from the iPlayer.
You can watch catch-up BBC stuff from other companies ie NowTV, Amazon etc without a license but you need a license if you watch anything that is being broadcast live from the BBC. Biggest jobs worth's ever.
Gladly I pretty much never watch any of their stuff anyway.
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You need a license to watch any live broadcast, not just BBC.
 
Evosparki said:
Got a confirmation email earlier I've cancelled my TV license, had it for almost 4 years.

I am so very, very looking forward to a visit from their fraud guys, I'll let them in and show them all of my disconnected coax cables, and give them a proper hear full of what a... white stain their company is.
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Start an online calendar with a timer to see how long it takes for them to appear ;)
 
I don't watch any live TV anyway. Anything I watch is from online websites like youtube and to watch series like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, anything that has already been broadcast live.
 
Got another letter saying 'under investigation' probably the 10th now... still waiting for someone to actually turn up and ring the door so I can ignore them :D
 
No no no... the appropriate internet person response to these guys is to temporarily turn into a chav, rant and rave at them til they run away, record it by sticking your phone 3mm from their face, ask them for their ID 7,467,262 times and don't forget to call them a ******

Or am I missing something?
 
I've been licence free 10 years or so now and probably only get about 1 visit a year. Out of those visits I've only actually answered the door to them once and just told them I don't require a licence and closed the door and they walked away. All the other times I've either been out or I haven't heard them due to having an afternoon nap. I know when they have been as they leave an unaddressed threat-o-gram saying they have called. Usually with the blanks left blank as the very important TVL man doesn't want to be identified.
 
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