| Threatening letters from TV Licensing 12:55 - Jan 29 with 5938 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
Since I moved into a new property 9 months ago I've received a number of letters from TV Licensing threatening me to buy a TV license, all of which I have ignored as I don't have a TV nor stream content.
I've just received another one, reminding me that my address is 'under investigation' but that I have a 10-DAY WINDOW in which to take action. Apparently if I don't do anything by 5th Feb they will escalate my case to the 'Enforcement Team' who will come to visit me.
As far as I know, these are simply scare tactics by essentially a sales company, and the best thing to do is ignore the letters/ignore them if they do visit.
Is it best to at least make a record on their website of the fact that I don't need a TV license? Or should I just continue to ignore, and if they do knock on my door, tell them that they have no legal authority to do anything and politely close the door?
I'm not worried but I'd appreciate any advice! |  |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 16:08 - Jan 29 with 1835 views | Tractor_Buck |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:26 - Jan 29 by BloomBlue |
A license to watch TV in 2025 is a joke, have the BBC move to adverts to fund it. |
ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky would do everything in their power to block this as it would hollow out what's left of the TV advertising market and completely kill their business models. |  | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 16:09 - Jan 29 with 1826 views | Tractor_Buck |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 15:22 - Jan 29 by textbackup |
Does anyone on here pay for a TV licence?
I do, am I alone? |
I do, and I buy one for TBJnr for his university digs. | | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 17:11 - Jan 29 with 1767 views | MattinLondon |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:26 - Jan 29 by BloomBlue |
A license to watch TV in 2025 is a joke, have the BBC move to adverts to fund it. |
I’m a big fan of the BBC but I wouldn’t be surprised if it moves towards a subscription based service within the next ten years. |  | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:32 - Jan 29 with 1711 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 16:01 - Jan 29 by PhilTWTD |
The only time I've been read my rights was by a TV licence inspector! I told him he'd never take me alive. |
Did he write that down in case he needed to use it in evidence? |  |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:39 - Jan 29 with 1700 views | Bigalhunter |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 15:23 - Jan 29 by DanTheMan |
I do, but I do watch live TV. |
Where’s Callis when you need him?
He’d know how to deal with nonsense like this. |  |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:41 - Jan 29 with 1703 views | mutters |
Just ignore.
They can only gain access if they have a search warrant and turn up with the police.
The people who come knocking on your door do not work for the TV license they work for Capita.
Do not invite them in unless they turn up with said search warrant.
I am surprised that they are pursuing it to this level. Have you informed them that you don't need a TV license? I filled a form out back in 2018 and aside from the odd level asking me if my circumstances change, I haven't had a visit. I filled out an online form explaining that I don't watch TV live etc and they have been as good as gold. |  |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:46 - Jan 29 with 1677 views | mutters |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 15:22 - Jan 29 by textbackup |
Does anyone on here pay for a TV licence?
I do, am I alone? |
Nope, not value for money as I rarely watched TV before I cancelled mine.
I find it particularly galling that I should pay the BBC money so that I can watch Channel 4 or another live stream. It's an outdated model that needs reforming. For those who try and blur the lines between BBC TV and BBC Radio saying that it funds both. It doesn't. The BBC earns a significant chunk of cash from their commercial arm that more than covers the cost of Radio. TV license is just for TV, even though you could argue it all goes in the same pot. | |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:47 - Jan 29 with 1676 views | tcblue |
You can write to them and inform them you're removing their implied right to access your property |  | | |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:52 - Jan 29 with 1670 views | J2BLUE |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 15:22 - Jan 29 by textbackup |
Does anyone on here pay for a TV licence?
I do, am I alone? |
I do. I don't really think much of it BUT it is frustrating when Lineker was being paid nearly 8000 licence fees per year.
I know that is coming to an end but it's a good example of the money they waste. |  |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 06:46 - Jan 30 with 1563 views | BlueOura |
As others have said Just ignore the letters and refuse entry to anybody that visits.
I informed them both in writing and by phone that I didn't require a license and about 3 years on i'm still getting the letters, they must have been 'opening an investigation' about 5 times now!
We did get one visit and politely sent them packing. |  | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 07:40 - Jan 30 with 1510 views | Meadowlark |
Here in the UK it is a licence, not a license. |  | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:00 - Jan 30 with 1479 views | KBsSocks |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 21:47 - Jan 29 by tcblue |
You can write to them and inform them you're removing their implied right to access your property |
You can just tell anybody who shows up this verbally, and tell them to pass the message on to their company, Crapita, and the BBC Licensing people. That should be enough to stop them knocking on your door unless it´s directly onto the street.
But it won´t stop the mail harassment. I´ve had it for over 20 years now. |  |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:04 - Jan 30 with 1469 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:00 - Jan 30 by KBsSocks |
You can just tell anybody who shows up this verbally, and tell them to pass the message on to their company, Crapita, and the BBC Licensing people. That should be enough to stop them knocking on your door unless it´s directly onto the street.
But it won´t stop the mail harassment. I´ve had it for over 20 years now. |
People are mostly right on here. But it does seem to me that just formally telling them you don't require one (assuming that is true) is probably worth the very small effort.... | | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 10:00 - Jan 30 with 1387 views | KBsSocks |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:04 - Jan 30 by redrickstuhaart |
People are mostly right on here. But it does seem to me that just formally telling them you don't require one (assuming that is true) is probably worth the very small effort.... |
Yeah, the intrusions from the Gun Licence people and the Dog Licence people and the XYZ Licence people are annoying, too, so sending them all letters "I don`t need one" is the way it should be.
Except it is not. | |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 10:44 - Jan 30 with 1338 views | DJR |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:04 - Jan 30 by redrickstuhaart |
People are mostly right on here. But it does seem to me that just formally telling them you don't require one (assuming that is true) is probably worth the very small effort.... |
It's certainly what I would do. |  | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 11:41 - Jan 30 with 1279 views | Clapham_Junction |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 15:22 - Jan 29 by textbackup |
Does anyone on here pay for a TV licence?
I do, am I alone? |
Yes. The BBC has its flaws, but its still one of the best national broadcasters in the world from what I've seen. I'm now living abroad but still watch or listen to it every day (and did last time I lived abroad). The UK would be much poorer without it.
I very much hope we would never become an Israel, where the Netanyahu government has already once destroyed the national broadcaster (abolished it and replaced it with a new one), and is now looking to do it again (this time closing it down completely). |  | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 11:47 - Jan 30 with 1265 views | DJR |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 10:44 - Jan 30 by DJR |
It's certainly what I would do. |
I got a downvote for this, but I am a lawyer, so like to think I know the best thing to do.
EDIT: I've now read the earlier post, and can understand the downvote. But I had a similar issue when my mother died, notified the TV licensing people, and only got one follow-up letter to check nothing had changed about a year later. [Post edited 30 Jan 12:05]
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 11:49 - Jan 30 with 1246 views | DJR |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 11:41 - Jan 30 by Clapham_Junction |
Yes. The BBC has its flaws, but its still one of the best national broadcasters in the world from what I've seen. I'm now living abroad but still watch or listen to it every day (and did last time I lived abroad). The UK would be much poorer without it.
I very much hope we would never become an Israel, where the Netanyahu government has already once destroyed the national broadcaster (abolished it and replaced it with a new one), and is now looking to do it again (this time closing it down completely). |
Absolutely. In my view, it's worth the licence fee for the World Service, Radia 4, 6 Music and its historical and other documentaries alone. | | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 11:51 - Jan 30 with 1242 views | mutters |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:00 - Jan 30 by KBsSocks |
You can just tell anybody who shows up this verbally, and tell them to pass the message on to their company, Crapita, and the BBC Licensing people. That should be enough to stop them knocking on your door unless it´s directly onto the street.
But it won´t stop the mail harassment. I´ve had it for over 20 years now. |
It feels like you have been unlucky or I have been lucky.
They have never been overly intrusive with me, maybe a letter once every couple of years to check to see if anything has changed. It's a simple process of going online and declaring that you don't need one. I wonder if people who don't engage (and it's their right not to) get more hassle than those who simply say no thanks? | |
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 13:49 - Jan 30 with 1169 views | badadski |
had one of those in new house i moved into, they have no idea whether people have tv or not and the letters are just based on an adress not paying for a tv license is assumed to be guilty even if there is no tv. not enforceable of course as its just them guessing. | | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 13:51 - Jan 30 with 1167 views | Ryorry |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 15:22 - Jan 29 by textbackup |
Does anyone on here pay for a TV licence?
I do, am I alone? |
I do - and am very happy to pay it too - £0.48p per day, or £14.54/month, is terrific value for money compared with any other streaming service out there; and for that you get BBC1, 2, 4 & 23 + all radio stations including the World Service which is superb.
Couldn't do without shows like Line of Duty, Blue Planet series (and other extraordinarily good collaborations with the OU), Wallace & Gromit, Proms & other music, Just One Thing, 'Clue', HIGNFY, Michael Palin, Benjamin Zephaniah, Alan Bennett, Ade Adepitan, Louis Theroux - etc etc etc etc. [Post edited 30 Jan 14:08]
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:00 - Jan 30 with 1132 views | Tangledupin_Blue |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 08:04 - Jan 30 by redrickstuhaart |
People are mostly right on here. But it does seem to me that just formally telling them you don't require one (assuming that is true) is probably worth the very small effort.... |
You would hope so but it doesn't stop the letters, some of which are quite threatening, and the occasional visit. 18 years now and still 3 or 4 letters per year. Nowadays they go straight in the bin, unopened. [Post edited 30 Jan 14:01]
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| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:01 - Jan 30 with 1117 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:00 - Jan 30 by Tangledupin_Blue |
You would hope so but it doesn't stop the letters, some of which are quite threatening, and the occasional visit. 18 years now and still 3 or 4 letters per year. Nowadays they go straight in the bin, unopened. [Post edited 30 Jan 14:01]
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Threaten them with harassment proceedings. | | | |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:21 - Jan 30 with 1058 views | mutters |
| Threatening letters from TV Licensing on 14:00 - Jan 30 by Tangledupin_Blue |
You would hope so but it doesn't stop the letters, some of which are quite threatening, and the occasional visit. 18 years now and still 3 or 4 letters per year. Nowadays they go straight in the bin, unopened. [Post edited 30 Jan 14:01]
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Wow, such a different experience to mine. Sorry to hear that you're being harassed like that. | |
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