They would but these assholes are on commission for every person they fuck. Do not engage, do not tell them one shred of information about yourself, do not permit entry, they have no more rights than you or me so fuck em, pricks.
I’ve always declared to them I don’t need one and never heard back from them except an email/letter every few years to see if my circumstances have changed.
I get sent letters every so often with their daft ‘threats’ of the dreaded enforcement team being sent but nothing actually comes of it. Maybe the thought of a 260 odd mile round trip is off putting for them.
You’ll find that your special “investigation reference number” is exactly the same as everyone elses that was printed that day as well.
It’s all empty threats 🤷
Customer Service Director lmao
They can’t do a single thing, remember when they used to say they could detect a signal from the van outside lol that was never true. If they ever send “enforcement” teams you don’t have to let them in
My favourite thing about the existence of a TV licence is watching everyone become big hardmen about them not paying it as soon as it’s brought up in any form 😂
“we have authorised an enforcement visit”
“Oh have you been granted a warrant by a court to enter the property”
“No”
“Off you fuck then”
>we have authorised an enforcement visit
For yourself? You can just say “We’ve decided to pop over”
As long as they don’t have evidence they cannot do jack shit to you.
As long as no Television can be seen from the windows/front door you are fine. If they CAN see one, they’ll start making up excuses to get a warrant. If they do show up with one they need to prove access is enabled for live TV at that time and it’s a good idea to have a copper with you incase they try to connect it.
Never paid it in my life. Never will.
I used to open the letters from them.
Don’t bother anymore as they just seem to go round in a circle.
I stopped paying it in 2022 and had 3 letters in 3 weeks I never heard from them again.
Ross McTaggart is a nonce, pass it on.
Effectively barring poor families and people on fixed incomes from information and connection under threat of prosecution is classist.
Apparently they have TV or electrical detectors … it is a old tax … even no TV but your phone or any table even a pc screen …
I have hundreds of these from way back in 2017. Never seen anyone 😂😂
They “visited a home every 10 seconds”. Santas little helpers.
BBC and their license fee is like the mafia demanding protection money
Surely they’re spending a fortune printing and sending these letters to people for no return? Waste of everyone’s time!
Ideal. Didn’t realise it had to be iPlayer you used for it to be an offence.
I haven’t paid it for many years. I don’t watch the shitty BBC anyway. They couldn’t pay me enough to watch it 🙄😂
We moved house and updated the licence address on the day we moved. The old house wasn’t sold for a few months so we would go in and check it. There was always a huge stash of angry TV licensing letters addressed to “the occupier”. Of course there was no occupier and no tv. We got a similar deluge of rude letters at our new place which was a new build flat. It looked like they had started sending letters well before the block was habitable. I am sure they did not send anyone, but it would have been funny to think of an inspector getting excited about a hundred unlicensed properties to check out, and turning up and finding a literal building site – no entry without a hard hat.
In USA…do you mean you need to have a license to watch broadcast TV in UK ????. Seriously did not know that.
I thought our govt was over reaching when they enact more gun laws.
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They would but these assholes are on commission for every person they fuck. Do not engage, do not tell them one shred of information about yourself, do not permit entry, they have no more rights than you or me so fuck em, pricks.
I’ve always declared to them I don’t need one and never heard back from them except an email/letter every few years to see if my circumstances have changed.
I get sent letters every so often with their daft ‘threats’ of the dreaded enforcement team being sent but nothing actually comes of it. Maybe the thought of a 260 odd mile round trip is off putting for them.
You’ll find that your special “investigation reference number” is exactly the same as everyone elses that was printed that day as well.
It’s all empty threats 🤷
Customer Service Director lmao
They can’t do a single thing, remember when they used to say they could detect a signal from the van outside lol that was never true. If they ever send “enforcement” teams you don’t have to let them in
My favourite thing about the existence of a TV licence is watching everyone become big hardmen about them not paying it as soon as it’s brought up in any form 😂
“we have authorised an enforcement visit”
“Oh have you been granted a warrant by a court to enter the property”
“No”
“Off you fuck then”
>we have authorised an enforcement visit
For yourself? You can just say “We’ve decided to pop over”
As long as they don’t have evidence they cannot do jack shit to you.
As long as no Television can be seen from the windows/front door you are fine. If they CAN see one, they’ll start making up excuses to get a warrant. If they do show up with one they need to prove access is enabled for live TV at that time and it’s a good idea to have a copper with you incase they try to connect it.
Never paid it in my life. Never will.
I used to open the letters from them.
Don’t bother anymore as they just seem to go round in a circle.
I stopped paying it in 2022 and had 3 letters in 3 weeks I never heard from them again.
Ross McTaggart is a nonce, pass it on.
Effectively barring poor families and people on fixed incomes from information and connection under threat of prosecution is classist.
But, hey, the blind can get a 50% discount, [per BBC.](https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-51376255)
Apparently they have TV or electrical detectors … it is a old tax … even no TV but your phone or any table even a pc screen …
I have hundreds of these from way back in 2017. Never seen anyone 😂😂
They “visited a home every 10 seconds”. Santas little helpers.
BBC and their license fee is like the mafia demanding protection money
Surely they’re spending a fortune printing and sending these letters to people for no return? Waste of everyone’s time!
Ideal. Didn’t realise it had to be iPlayer you used for it to be an offence.
I haven’t paid it for many years. I don’t watch the shitty BBC anyway. They couldn’t pay me enough to watch it 🙄😂
We moved house and updated the licence address on the day we moved. The old house wasn’t sold for a few months so we would go in and check it. There was always a huge stash of angry TV licensing letters addressed to “the occupier”. Of course there was no occupier and no tv. We got a similar deluge of rude letters at our new place which was a new build flat. It looked like they had started sending letters well before the block was habitable. I am sure they did not send anyone, but it would have been funny to think of an inspector getting excited about a hundred unlicensed properties to check out, and turning up and finding a literal building site – no entry without a hard hat.
In USA…do you mean you need to have a license to watch broadcast TV in UK ????. Seriously did not know that.
I thought our govt was over reaching when they enact more gun laws.