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Reue gets visited by the tv licence inspectors

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Reue

So after ignoring their letters for over a year, the inspectors finally came knocking at my door.

They spent a long time trying to get details and be allowed entry to the house. Very pushy, very rude, tried to convince me that I 'had' to let them in.

Apparently I can expect a visit from a "3rd party" to come and inspect next time. lol.

My dads house has been unoccupied for years now and due to the fact its pretty much falling down, we don't exactly sit down and watch tv in it..my dads told them and they still keep on with the letters. Let em waste their time :smile:

I suspect we'll have them soon...apparently they've dispatched their 'enforcement team' ^^

Reply 21

Ruthi-SH

WelshBluebird

If you do not watch live TV, then you do not need a licence.

There is also an exemption, whereby if you are a student living away from you parents, then you do not need a licence aslong as you are using a portable device (a laptop on a wifi network running off its battey would count) and as long as your parents have a licence.

interesting, im guessing that the laptop is only allowed to run on the battery, not plugged into mains electric for that exemption to work? I havent heard of that one admittedly

Reply 22

TheSownRose

Tericon

I suspect we'll have them soon...apparently they've dispatched their 'enforcement team' ^^

Can only imagine how that looks.

Reply 23

WelshBluebird

Ruthi-SH

interesting, im guessing that the laptop is only allowed to run on the battery, not plugged into mains electric for that exemption to work? I havent heard of that one admittedly

Yeah, as long as it is powered by a battery, then you are fine :smile:

. (I think there is a grey area with regards to say a laptop that is plugged into an ethernet cable, and if that is regarding as portable or not. I'm not sure how exactly the law is worded).

Reply 24

WaterCrafter

Tericon

I suspect we'll have them soon...apparently they've dispatched their 'enforcement team' ^^

We get that for a house we own but haven't lived in for any length of time (nor has it had a TV in it) for about 7 years. Whenever we go to pick up mail from the house, there's a threatening letter from TV License people.

Reply 25

Cicerao

OH ****, don't you know they have those vans with a swirling satellite dish on top and scanners inside driving down streets, and they can pinpoint your room down to 1mm and know that you don't have a TV, due to sophisticated radar equipment?! You do realise the police are going to bust down the door and arrest you and you get fined for the shows they know you watched?

Reply 26

fire2burn

Good on you, no warrant no entry!

Reply 27

fire2burn

Cicerao

They also have towers broadcasting rays which control your mind, but you can prevent this by wearing a hat constructed from aluminium foil.

Reply 28

Teao the Cat

I would have loved to have heard the whole of that conversation! I'm expecting the threatening letters to start soon in the student house i'm in... no one watches tv, but they had been paying for the licence blindly beacause there's a tv in the house. I've convinced them that the licence is to watch tv, not live in a house with one... almost. If the people do come and one of my housemates opens the door, there's no way they'd try to deny entry. Shame. I would, just because I can.

Reply 29

TShadow383

Tericon

I suspect we'll have them soon...apparently they've dispatched their 'enforcement team' ^^

I imagine something like thunderbirds :p:

Reply 30

DJkG.1

I've followed your posts on this for a while buddy.

Keep up the good work. :smile:

Classic Reue!

Reue

so did you eventually let them in?

Reply 33

Reue

W.H.T

so did you eventually let them in?

Lol.

Reply 34

L i b

Jolly good. Don't forget to put in a complaint against the chap!

Reply 35

TShadow383

I wonder if these people get paid on comission... Would make sense.

Reply 36

Potential Trigger

veggie4life

haha when they knocked on my door i simply opened it said "no comment" closed the door in his face and carried on watching TV.

ROFL.

I have just moved back to halls and that customary letter has been sent to all of us. I just threw it in the bin and the chinese guy next to me can't understand english all that well :biggrin:

Reply 37

Tuppenny

My mum got a load of threatening TV licence letters in a flat that was empty and on the market for sale. She got really freaked out about it, I can well believe that there are people who pay up without needing one.

Friend of mine at uni got a visit from some TV licence people after a load of threatening letters. He produced his TV licence, showed it to them and told them to sod off.

Reply 38

TShadow383

Tuppenny

Friend of mine at uni got a visit from some TV licence people after a load of threatening letters. He produced his TV licence, showed it to them and told them to sod off.