Is TV Licensing Harassing you? How to STOP TV Licence Officers visiting your address.
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Bullying people to pay for state sponsored media is disgusting.
NORTH KOREA 😂 and they wonder why we have conspiracy theories 😂 it's fucking TORY MIND CONTROL 🤣
Fun fact - Norway removed the licensing scheme where you could opt-out by not having a TV. Politicians just increased the taxes instead so you have no opt-out financially.
Now the same group of people wants to change the law so the tax-man can go 10 years back and look at your bank account or other financial information with no process or court being involved. Just like that.
So consider the options on the table in the UK.
@@lucyelkins7731 Yeah it's always funny when people call the BBC "left" when literally every person at the top is a hand-picked Tory!
That no one watches nor trusts anymore
Don’t use it then.
They only bully people who use the service without paying. I’ve stopped for years now streaming is a thing and weirdly don’t get “harassed”.
Person moaning because they use a service but don’t want to pay for it yet still claim they’re a victim doesn’t have a ring to it though.
I don't understand why as I don't have a fishing license, I don't get harassed by the Environment Agency for not having one. You shouldn't have to keep telling them that you don't want or need a license! So if you tell them and they keep writing, threatening and visiting surely this is harassment!
Can’t see the problem. They were told don’t do anything that needs a TV licence.
They check every couple of years & that’s it.
@@davecooper3238 Lucky you. Thats not been my experience. See Parapilot comment above
@@parapilot4694 Years of experience leads me to believe anyone who keeps getting letters only has themselves to blame.
Do you keep fishing gear in various rooms of your house and carry fishing gear with you at all times? If you did then there is a possibility you may be fishing.
@@davecooper3238I cancelled my license over three years ago and had it refunded. I get a letter off them at least once every six weeks if I was an old lady I would probably be quite stressed . It is a big problem!
Tesco is getting a warrant for the cops to kick my door In because I shop at Aldi 😂 No difference from what the BBC are doing.
How can a commercial company, which is not an enforcement agency convince a court to issue a warrant? I am intrigued.
literally mate... walking into tesco- and being forced to buy something you don't want before you leave, just because it exists- absolute bastards the TV Leches
Thats right bitch! how DARE you ignore the clubcard deals!
@@darrenburns16you MUST BUY MY SHIT YOU BASTARDS!
Me too Aldi kick my door in with a bill for shopping 🛒 that I’ve not had then kick my teeth in for not enjoying their products.
My local chip shop knocked on my door and said I owed them money for chips. I never ordered any chips but they said they are following the BBC business plan, they assume if you don't tell them you don't want chips you must want chips.
🤣👍
😂
Lol
I actually want chips now.
@@itsallgood8347 you might need a license be careful 😇
It is harassment, pure and simple. Bullying, scaring people into buying a license. Why should you tell them you don't need a license? End these scandalous tactics now!!!
I enjoy collecting the letters and I look forward to getting a new one every month. Especially when it's got new wording on it or they used a different colour ink. They use 3 different colours of envelope too which is pretty cool. I have 10 years worth ... ps. I don't watch any of that rubbish, and i never will. But why the heck do i need to tell them that.
@@bretton_woodsI don't collect them, I cross out the address and slap them back in the mail. Costs them money to Harass me.
@@bretton_woods Why don't you stop being a total pick and just pop on line, tell them you don’t watch live tv or iplayer. It’s the polite way to behave in society. Simple as.
That's the thing, you don't NEED to tell them. There's 0 legal requirement for you to hand over your data. They just threateningly tell you that you should. Fuck them.
But you watch live TV. !!!
Imagine if a salesman from Netflix, Disney+, or Amazon Prime was on your doorstep demanding money out of you for simply having their apps installed on your devices. They'd be up in court on extortion charges. Why should the BBC be allowed to get away with it?
Not even having their apps on your devices, for owning a device that's capable of installing the apps.
that Smart TV you got there COULD receive Netflix, your fined.
Thats how the BBC goons act with the Iplayer.
BBC itv , all TV is tripe , better off with a book or kindle , dvd if you want a movie or netflix or similar
Exactly, or if the onus somehow fell legally on you to have to fill out a form every two years and send it to Netflix to say that you still don't want any of their media and there hasn't 'been a mistake' and you do not watch Netflix nor do you want them to come knocking on your door so you have removed their implied right of access etc. Have said the same thing thing myself a few times in recent years. No TV at my house, I'm not 'dodging' anything. End of.
For the same reason Saville and other nonces have been enabled by them.
I wrote them a letter saying words to the effect of "I revoke the right for you to cross my property and approach my door. If you feel the need to visit and conduct a search, I expect you will have a warrant. Without such an item, I expect you will never darken my presence again. I also revoke permission for any further communications, and any such unsolicited mail shall be enforced with a £25 Administration fee, payable within 30 days - cheques made payable to "CASH" at this address. Further communications from you are acceptance of these terms"
They did write back, but it was not a aggressive template - instead it just said "We can't accept your admin fee terms, however we will note you on the system as you no longer need a licence and stop any further communications"
I consider that a win.
This is a written removal of implied right of access and has in the past been used to obtain a search warrant for your house, they’re a law unto themselves and it has to stop
@@THEEGGMANwooooo I doubt very much they got a search warrant for that, they only get a coupld of hundred warrants a year. In some areas the magistrates have refused to give ANY warrants to tv licencing
@@richardevans560 doubt it, believe it, I’m just saying it so he’s aware of the risk. Some areas may not, others may. My personal experience is that WROIRA is sometimes used to gain a search warrant
I hope you sent them the admin charge and harassed them with letters until they paid
@@richardevans560 There are some instances where this HAS been used to obtain a search warrant. I’m not saying that it will always result in that, just that it’s a risk, however large, to be considered
Im a retired police officer and cancelled my tv licence 5 years ago. For 2 years i got a threatening and disgusting letter every month. The wording was qlarming. On 2 occassions i had these crooks at my door. I had made it quite clear several times to cease this harassment. The ignored my demand. As a police officer i have had to prosecute public for such behaviour. Why do bbc tv licence get immunity from criminal law?
Proof that who you know is more important than what you know!
Threats that's all they are. Do not comply or even associate.
Wow, I never realised that harassment is okay as long as you give your victim a way to "opt out".
They're very good at writing laws that let them steal your money. Allowing them to demand money with menaces is just one example.
Or it's never actually been tested and anyone's tried charging the BBC with harrassment. If I had the money to spare, I'd probably try this. Especially as they open new investigations on my property every month and have been for well over a decade. As they have sophisticated detection equipment, I would argue that the lack of evidence and prosecution strongly suggests that their investigations find no evidence of any offence. Thus telling me I'm being investigated every month is both pointless and harrassment.
I'm also curious if people have challenged evidence that's used to obtain warrants. It seemed as though withdrawing the right of access might trigger a warrant, but surely more evidence of an offence would be needed than just the BBC feeling ignored.
Being a government agency (or acting on behalf of one) allows you to get away with murder.
Well, the BBC themselves had an easy way to opt out of Alex Bellfield’s harassment emails. They chose not to block them, but to store them and eventually use them as evidence.
and taking opt out option just puts on the top of the list for a visit, (like way they use the word visit, sound like some biscuits and cakes in then) 🙂 maybe we should take reference from this time of year, and old eggs, and plenty tricks at the ready, for entertaining your visitors 🙂
The whole TV Licensing thingy sounds like an abuse of power.
It’s robbery by the system
@nicola646
> The whole TV Licensing thingy sounds like an abuse of power
Any other laws which you consider an abuse of power?
I do understand that council tax is an obligation for the sake of public services, but not TV license even you are not a big fan of BBC and still have to pay
The letters don't bother me now. They don't know who lives at my house, and nor shall they. The letters are addressed to The Occupier. It's costing them money to send the letters. The bbc's reputation for breaking the law far outshines those people who don't pay the licence fee. They are a horrible shower.
TV licensing tactics make me wish we'd have a class action against them in the UK. It seems bound to happen one day surely.
Yes.
@@robburrows2737
> Yes.
Err, no, actually. Class action lawsuits are not a thing in the UK. Do pay attention.
On a par with the Post Office!!
@@davidoswald9253
> On a par with the Post Office!!
Not at all.
Do you have any other fields of activity where you struggle to maintain a sense of perspective?
No Name!! says it all -what a numptie!!!@@anonnona8099
Somebody needs to gather tv licencing victims and sue tv licencing in a massive lawsuit, the way they do in the usa
@trixiek942nice one mate I totally agree the people in this country are just sheep waiting in cue's and they can't even see it the government are just taking the piss and we just take it🤪 Im fucking pissed off 😂
TV licensing is not a company. Capita business services is the company.
@@Euphoftoday and surprise surprise,who is the second biggest shareholder of Capita? Blackrock ! Blackrock (and Vanguard)is the foundation of everything bad on the planet.
Would be nice honestly. We need more of an uproar about TV licensing!
@trixiek942Yeah they only bankrupt you for being sick. Super smart aren't they...
Got to love how the BBC sees itself as a global service provider and provides iplayer etc for free to everyone except those in the UK.
Have you tried watching BBC iPlayer in Europe ?
Trying normally brings up a message saying. Content not available in this territory. That even applies for people with a UK BBC account.
Can’t answer for the rest of the world.
My phone google account for some reason said i was in USA and wouldnt let me change it so i couldnt install iplayer as it thought i was in USA ... now its sorted i can install iplayer again
They don't - it's very hard to watch or listen to iPlayer from outside UK.
@@kynkokytsumi1931 Good to hear your phone is now fixed.
@@mickeythompson9537 Yes they do, familiar with VPN's ? On top of that they run channels in countries like America with BBC America, and WE pay for it!
I am amazed that the UK still has TV licencing! Here in Australia, TV licences were abolished over fifty years ago.
Main method of spreading government propaganda
Because this country is a rip off woke country. They make too much money out of the hard-working people to scrap it. BBC are scum. 😡😡
Sounds like we didn’t ship out all of our criminals to Oz after all… some stayed to work at the BBC. 😂
💀💀😅🤣@@luke5436
The BBC TV Licence is the most unfair and unjust Tax there is and must be ABOLISHED.
My late uncle (94 years of age) was resident in a care home and the home had a TV licence and each room where a TV was installed paid the required fee, however he still received letters from these disgraceful people demanding he pay a full TV licence. I had POE and was dealing with this on his behalf and getting nowhere with them. It only stopped when he sadly passed away and they were informed. The BBC and their enforcement outfit must spend millions on their actions and the sooner the TV licence is abolished the better. I won't hold my breath waiting for our MPs voting to abolish it though.
@kalpat5753
> the sooner the TV licence is abolished the better.
Wrong.
@@anonnona8099 Don't you want to see ALL broadcasters playing by the same rules? I do.
@@englishciderlover7347 If they abolish the licence fee people like me who don’t need one will end up paying for it indirectly.
Probably via council tax as rest assured the bbc will never be subscription only as that would be the end of them , and government relies on them to help spread the fear and lies to control the sheeple.
@@Mog435 I know that's what will happen if enough people cancel their licences, but all broadcasters OUGHT to play by the same rules.
@@englishciderlover7347 unfortunately the bbc are not a run of the mill broadcaster , far from it they are interlinked with government . A useful tool for sewing seeds to brainwash the masses on numerous topics !
I removed my implied right of access 13 years ago, never had a problem and been licensed free for that time. On a professional basis as an expert witness for the courts, I categorically believe that NO detection equipment exists and it is being used as a ploy to increase pressure upon the household.
As a former Postie, I can confirm that the equipment inside those vans is for show. Many Years ago, the detector vans were driven by Posties as we knew all the local streets. The TV license man sat in the back calling out unlicensed addresses, from a printed list he had on a clipboard; which we drove to and he would go only, to those doors and tell them, they'd been detected watching TV without a license and most either paid up then or got a license the next day. They mostly did this in the evenings when people were at home, watching tv.
@@Thurgosh_OG ay old sceptic knuckles did it to me back when I was a student. Told him dont have a TV had sent the paperwork in and to bugger off, if he wants in he needed a warrant.
@@Thurgosh_OG sounds like something out of a comedy sketch! Or North Korea. Amazing how easily people can be fooled
Sadly, that's not 100% true any longer. If your TV is connected to the internet, and most are these days, you can count on the fact it's phoning home, if not actually listening to every word you say.
Same goes if you don't own that monster in the corner because you can access TV on other devices. They call them 'cookies', but they're effectively peeping toms.
@jackwaycombe so they can detect an Internet connection... how the hell do they know its going to a TV?
A friend of mine worked for years on the maintenance of these "so called detector vans" all they contained initially was a wooden desk and a list of house numbers and street names which didn't have a licence. He went out regularly to breakdowns and noticed nothing in the van whatsoever.
How could the detection equipment be shown in court when none exist?
For vulnerable people this is a nightmare.
Pop the letter in the recycle bin
So true, im terminal and they tried it on with me yesterday, I have put on here part of what went on, but I did have a great afternoon ;)
The letter you receive from the TV licensing, the tone of the letter makes you feel like a criminal in not having a Television licence.
Don't read them then! just shred the offending things.
I stopped paying them years ago and every time they send that offensive letter out they get the same response.
I haven't watched TV in years, but my biggest issue is probably the same as most people....since when did the BBC start owning the internet?
@@ellvee4262 That's what we in Sweden said when our government tried to pull the same BS on us. Our Supreme Court put them in their place and said that the internet isn't specifically made for watching TV or listening to radio, so therefor the government has no right demanding a licensing fee for its use. Computer monitors are also not considered televisions (even though they can be used for this purpose) since that's not their primary intended use. Same goes for mobile phones with commercial radio capabilities.
@@WolfHeathen
Glad to hear that not all governments or companies are a law onto themselves and that the judicial system still works.
In the UK I don't get why the population still think that a TV licence is an official requirement to posses, but as noted in a lot of these comments threads at least the right questions are being asked, and finally, some legal advice as to the subtle but important play on words employed by these 'representatives' of the licence fee chasers.
I agree IAM going to make you laugh I once had a letter I owe 5p it cost 80p to send the letter
NEVER let them in your property!
There's no such thing as a detection van. It's just a scare tactics, just like the threatening letters everyone gets.
Or just tell them you don’t watch bbc, simple.
I’ve not been bothered in over 20 years 😂🤣
I just ask any caller to them to identify themselves and company, they either will ID themselves or ask you to ID yourself, either way I just so no thanks.
Actually filling in the correct paper work via internet I had my first letter 4 weeks later and regular ever since plus 3 actual visits and one visit when nobody home. I am guessing you don’t get chased because they know your YT channel and your position as a Barrister.
They'll get a warrant and can force entry, and that's where the police come in if you resist. You're going to lose mate.
@@ppo2424 Don't listen do this government shill. Force entry to do what? Inspect my TV? hahahaha
Having mental health issues I was driven to rage by these pestering letters. Eventually I phoned TV Licensing and was told that I won't be sent letters for 2 years. They have begun this process again after two years
Now I just bin the letters.. You couldn't pay me enough to make me watch telivision. It's all in the word programming!!! I refuse to be traumatised or controlled by a box of electronic components. Thank you for your clear explanation. Keep up the great work .
I'm just curious to know how you are watching this then?
@@79blustone no licence required for utube .
@79blustone tv licences are required for live or broadcast television.
I don't think anyone got the hint from the last section of his comment.... I'll give you a hint- 'Irony'
@@79blustoneI'm not on your side.
Just ignore them. It's THAT simple.
Don't open the door, don't answer questions, don't talk, don't reply, don't write, don't answer.
Absolutely
They literally say give us money or we will send hired goons to your house to threaten and bully you until you give them money. Imagine anyone else doing that, they would be arrested for demanding money with menaces..
were you a freeloader?
Sounds like the thugs wanting protection money, no difference…
For social experiment my sister have to wear a "the BBC are doing their best" T-shirt for 2 weeks and see how people react. So far she's been spat on and had a book thrown at her.
I'm curious to see what happens when she goes outside 🤔
😂😂🤣
Her treatment clearly says something about the character of people who hate the BBC.
that's a disgusting joke. I hope you don't actually have a sister.
I’m a miserable get, but that made me laugh out loud.
😂😂
My mother died in February and the TV licence for her property was a 'no' priority until a letter turned up reminding my dead mother to renew her licence. I contacted TV licencing, notifying them that my mother was dead and asking them to check if a refund was due. Despite emailing them a copy of my mother's death certificate, no action was taken and last week I contacted TV Licencing again to find out what was going on. This morning I received an email notifying me that a refund in excess of £90 had been issued. Then I picked up the mail from the letter box and, lo and behold, one of them was from TV Licencing, notifying my dead mother that her property was under investigation for not renewing her licence. Disgusting.
You don't need a TV Licence to own or possess a television set. However, if you use it to watch or record programmes as they are being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, or to download or watch BBC programmes on demand, including catch up TV, on BBC iPlayer, then you need a TV Licence in order to do so.
Without a warrant they have no more right than the Postman to come into your property.
Trouble is they do eventually get a warrant through lying or trick people into admitting they watch tv without a license
Less in fact as they are only door to door salesmen.
@@TomBradshaw-ot9zbNo they don’t. Why people are so thick and pay the licence fee is beyond me.
@@TomBradshaw-ot9zb People can easily avoid admitting anything, by simply not talking to them! And certainly not allowing them into their homes. Simply say no thanks, and shut the door. Or don't even open the door in the first place!
Dont answer the door and if you do, say no thank you, goodbye, simples
I haven't owned a TV for years, and I get these letters monthly... addressed to "the legal occupier," since I have never given them my name. They have a distinct escalation pattern, from less pretend-threatening to very pretend-threatening, and then they go back to the beginning. It's comical. Only had one 'officer' visit, just after I moved to this address, I told him (from an upstairs window I was painting) that I didn't have a TV, I refused when asked to give my name (even though he claimed it would make things easier for me if I did!) and he went away. All very pathetic really.
Well said 👏 same here one person at the door in 10yrs, turned them away, same letters month after month each one threatening to send a enforcement Officer out which never come. Not worth the paper they are written on 😅
Same here. After 18 years of receiving these letters I quickly saw a rotating sytem of low threat to high threat and starting over again. I had visits from them 3 times. The first guy was nice and I did speak to him but didn't give him any of my personal information. 2nd time there were 2 guys, one was huge and stood behind the speaker to cause intimidation. I'm a woman on my own and they looked in my windows, I should have got the police involved but had no proof. 3rd time I was just leaving to go out and shouted at them to f off.
@@petc8504keep the door closed. Never communicate with these unconscionable people.
Same here. I've had so many of those letters with code numbers and the "scary" (not actually scary) red ones that I've lost count. Anything addressed to "the legal occupier" gets torn up and binned on the grounds that its contents clearly aren't important enough to be addressed to me by name. They never do anything and I don't think I've even had a visit in the ten years (at least) since I stopped paying for the licence.
I was just gonna comment saying the same thing pal. I've been at this address for 6 year's and not once have I had a TV licence. Since then the letters from them have gone from white (under investigation) to red (court action) and now back to white again (back under investigation) hahahaha absolute clowns 🤡
Was born in 1980.
I remember when I was about 6 seeing the adverts on BBC about their detector vans.
I remember thinking TV's only revive signals... How can you tell if something is reciving a signal unless it's sending one out?
Then I though what if you have two properties and the dividing wall has a TV either side...
How could the BBC know if one was switched on or not, or which one was receiving a signal.
Then lastly the interior of the van looked like it had used extra stage props from Dr Who... Then as a 6 year old I realised that was bollocks!
You must be one of those awful conspiracy theorists the BBC is always warning us about
@@thewaronu8842 sorry was that comment directed at me?
@@waxrepine1298 Irony dude
@@thewaronu8842 lol I did wonder when I asked you the question! No worries!
The BBC telling lies and covering up for those lies ... who would have thought it !!?!?!!!
I'm 64, never had a tv license, never had an inspector at the door. Yes, I receive the letters, addressed to legal occupier. I bin them. TV license is optional. If you pay it, it's your choice. They need your help to obtain a warrant, don't give it. Never engage with them, do not communicate, not a word, ever.
You should make an offer to represent someone for free in one of these cases just to cover how it actually plays out. I think people would love it.
I found that writing to them to say I don't have a TV doesn't work.
However writing to them to request the evidence they intend to rely on in court to prove beyond reasonable doubt that I am breaking the law, does work.
Generally speaking, when someone threatens to take you to court, I find the best approach is to threaten to turn up at the hearing to defend it, and TV licencing is no exception.
I asked them to explain what detection equipment thy had used to determine that they believed I was watching / had installed unlicenced TV services, how the equipment worked, what results it showed, etc. Or if they had not used such equipment, to explain why not. Or, if they refused to produce this evidence, to explain how they intended to prove beyond reasonable doubt without it.
I also informed them that I was revoking implied consent for visits, and that any future correspondence other than to reply to my letter addressing its points would be treated as harrassment.
That worked, I haven't heard from them for 8 years now.
Yes, it's pretty obvious that everyone at loggerheads with the BBC over this issue should be using this approach. It should also be asked as to the purpose of a home visit to 'inspect' possible presence of TV viewing equipment which will obviously be inactive at the time. Simply, what proof is this of usage?
Never pay the tv licence. It’s your moral obligation
Thank you @BlackBeltBarrister for helping the common man/woman to have confidence in him/herself regarding certain areas of law.
I have watched your videos on TV licensing and find them both sane and informative.
We do not have a tv or watch iplayer and am sick of the letters and feel aggreived that we have to declare we are not criminals every 2 years.
your point on the dangers of not responding was something too many overlook and I will be contacting them to officially state my position.
I actually want them to come round and search the property but they never seem to bother.
We've not had a license for 14 years and do not want to watch the dross on the BBC or any other tv station!
It annoys me no end that justice is dished out very quickly in one direction but if wrong is done to a citizen it takes years, the justice system is very weighted 😡
Also if I were to write letters like this to any business or individual I would end up sharing a cell with Alex Belfield 🙄
All that you see is fiction. Judges work for banks,the banking system has cells to cage people that don't do what they're told. The banking system is full of criminals, but there are a small percentage of people like me that are exposing their practices and being successful in suing for breach of data.
the planning system is even worse.
Bit like Council Tax.
Any reasonable person would see these letters as harassment. If the law allows it then maybe the law needs to change.
Spot on. Regarding the removal of the implied right of access…….but mr barrister. Why not tell your clients. To serve a notice of fee schedule for a meeting with the tv inspector of say £450. For the first hr and £250 per hr or part thereof ( ie what some barristers charge 😂) Also say £75.00 for handling the admin & responding to each letter they send. Instruct them that if they do not wish to pay then hey should refrain from any further correspondence or attempt any visits. If they choose do do either of these things then this will be seen as acceptance of the contract and the fee will be due to be paid within 7 days or in the case of a visit in cash on arrival of the ‘inspector’ this will guarantee that you’ll never hear from them again . And if by chance they slip up and the computer sends out a letter then great you e made £75.00 😂 happy days
if there's something not to trust in this world it's the law tho !
Absolutely, and no one seems to take into account how depending on our age, circumstances, mental health & personalities, these letter's with their implied threats & accusations affect us
For many they cause a great deal of stress & increased anxiety. It's nothing short of bullying and simply wouldn't be considered acceptable by any other "service provider"... can you imagine the Gas Board sending similar letters to those who don't pay a gas bill simply because they don't have gas?🤷🏼♀️
It's much the same principal really
Would you call it harassment if they are actually guilty?
You poor people.
Do you ever stop, blink, and realize how you are not free?
This is the use of TV, but it is simply a symbol, a warning sign, that you need to notice you are not free.
It's not just the letters that are the issue but how they look. It's easy to see how a vulnerable person could be scared into buying a license they don't need by how threatening the letters appear. Just getting the letters may not be considered harassment but how they present themselves surely is.
For me even after making the declaration online that I don't need a TV license I continued to receive letters saying that they were going to send someone out to visit to confirm that I didn't need one.
Yes it frightened the life out of me. I've only just returned from living abroad and wasn't expecting to be threatened by the BBC. I should have known better.
Slam the door, dont talk to them.
The best way to avoid any prosecution.
Trouble is, they have many ploys to trick their way inside. They never lie, but it appears they are free to subtly imply things.
@@transientaardvark6231 the only way they'd trick their way inside of my flat would be by pretending to be my partner.
I reckon I'd see through that ruse.
@@transientaardvark6231 Your best bet is simply not answering the door if you're not expecting visitors.
@@transientaardvark6231if I dont know people who are coming into my house, they need ID. No ID, no entry
@@transientaardvark6231 ohh but they can lie, 'we have detected signals indicating you have and active TV' yeh you and that old van with a bent coat hanger on it?
I completed the "no licence required" form in September 2020.
The issue I have is that... that should be it. You've told them you don't need one, end of. For me, it becomes harassment when they keep writing to you every 2 years.
No, I've told you I don't need one, that's it. If and when I need a licence, _I_ will contact _you_ - until then, stop assuming I'm a criminal and leave me the hell alone.
The thing is, you shouldn't need to provide personal details and let them know you're not breaking the Law. You should be allowed to not provide personal details and simply state that a licence isn't required.
I don't agree with the concept anyway. I don't have to phone the Police every week to let them know I haven't been speeding, so why should I have to advise someone else when I'm not breaking the Law, outside of a court setting.
But you are
The issue you've got is you're still giving them the information for their system. Just don't bother with them. No matter what they say or other people tell you it is not law. You're not obligated to pay
@@ppo2424you've strayed away from the herd. Think you should get back in your lane
Call them, tell them you dont need one. Dont confirm anything, even your name. Personally I dont even call them, did it once and told them they have no right to contact me again. If they try to enter, we'd respond accordingly and take it as an attempted forced entry. When one eventually tried, it led to a complicated trial.
I wouldn't watch the BBC if they paid me!
😂😂😂Same here
If the BBC send these demands out they should at the very least supply an email address so you can respond!
the fact that the UK still has these ridiculous licenses is bizarre
It's how we fund our state propaganda of course
Most eu countries have them as well.the
usa 🇺🇸 don't, the bbc send them programmes for free..why you would actually watch the crap on BBC is beyond me..
in other countries.... its the ads that makes revenues for the TV networks...
why not they do the same
why is it that it seems like "owning a TV" is deemed like a criminal act?
@@laurentitolledo1838 because the viewing figures for the BBC would not be high enough for them to be able to charge enough for ads,they enjoy the freedom of a 100% funded business model,they are answerable to no one and can push the currant globalist,elitist, neo liberal messaging to their hearts content.
@@laurentitolledo1838 do you really want terrible compare the market adverts ruining all of your t.v. experience .
Much prefer a t.v. license fee to stop the adverts!
It's important to state that when you Withdraw Implied Right of Access, you always sign it as "The Legal Occupier". You are under no obligation to disclose your identity to Capita/TVL.
FMOTL garbage that will get you precisely nowhere in a courtroom.
It's a simple online process to opt-out. Fill in the form and no more threatening letters for about a year. But they don't keep records of those who haven't got a licence - a year ago I entered the opt-out details and I recently received a licencing letter addressed to 'the legal occupier'.
I put their letters in the bin. If they ever come to my door they will be getting zero response other than “no thanks” and a closed door. I don’t watch live broadcasts, I’ve removed the BBC app from every device I own.
Corrupt judges
Enforcement officers 😂
They're door to door salesmen.
I'm on the electoral roll register, yet their "investigation" can't even find out my name. They're addressed "to the legal occupier."
You have no legal obligation to respond to their letters.
I simply ignore their letters and I won't take the time to declare a no licence needed to them. If an enforcement officer, (salesman), visits I will say no thanks and shut the door and they will have no choice but to go away.
Exactly. Why this fool is scaring people I don’t know. Just stop paying and ignore every single letter.
The guy is talking law. That's his job. What happens in practice isn't always out of a textbook. My letters from TVL get binned, rare visits get turned away without confirming I'm even the occupier, much less what my name is. No problem at all.
People getting wound up by a monthly letter that isn't even addressed to them.. 😂
@@Mizzkan He's being responsible by spelling out exactly what the law says on this matter. What they choose to do with that information is their choice but at least they're informed and hopefully won't put themselves at risk by doing something they think is legal but isn't. I did the same as you and quite enjoy getting the threatening letters and binning them without opening them.
I receive their threatening letters every 2 years despite telling them I do not require a TV licence because I don’t watch TV!
We love you Dan ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I cancelled my mother's TV Licence and explained the reason as she could no longer see the TV due to cataracts and she could no longer hear the TV due to the loss of her hearing aids by the hospital she spent about five weeks in. Immediately after it was cancelled, she started to receive threatening letters from the TV License authority. My sister removed the TV from her home soon after receiving the first of these letters. What staggered me was how threatening these letters became, I just ignore them as there seems to be little point in explaining why there is no requirement to have a TV license at her home as I have already done this, and it has been ignored already. They can send out as many threatening letters as they wish it cost them money to do so, I think it is disgusting the nature of these letter old people in general must recieve and it is no wonder people end up buying a TV Licence even if they have no longer got a TV or use a TV, just to stop being threatened.
My mother for years rarely watched TV apart from Strickly Come Dancing as she found practically everything on TV offensive to her which was broadcast.
If you are blind the only concession the BBC allow is a half price TV licence. No, it doesn't make sense.
BBC have lost. TV licenses will eventually be scrapped.
Personally I now recognise the letters and I return them to sender unopened as I do with all other junk mail.
@@itwork6810 No they won't, the BBC and other channels are to much of a useful tool to the government for pushing their fear porn and agendas.
As long as they are parliaments nudge unit, they will be allowed to charge and harass the public.
Get you MP involved...
I have quite a stack of letters in my draw. I've been told I'm being investigated to getting a visit back to being investigated and back to getting a visit....oh and some IN01 letters. I watch no live broadcast TV so do not need a license. Amazingly no other company chases you for not using or not wanting thier services.
And I bet during their months/years of 'investigation' they still address you as 'Legal occupier'
'Drawer', not Draw! Licence not 'License', unless you're an American, Their, not 'Thier'.
@@stephenbaker7079 Pedant not pendant...
@@stephenbaker7079 what difference dose (intentional) it make? You still understood the message.
@@stephenbaker7079 Smart arse.
That was very informative, helpful and is worth knowing. Thank you.
I used to work for the BBC they don't have TV dictator vans what they do is send out a outside broadcasting van to freak people out
Remember the old TV Detector van adverts on the BBC, back in the 1970's, they showed a Commer van with an antenna on the roof, they had the van at Television Center, White City, parked up around the back, and it was a "Prop" vehicle, used and kitted out for filming the advertisement, a BBC engineer also confirmed to me back in those days when I asked if it was real, that it was indeed not, and just full of normal BBC technical stuff to make it look like it worked to fool people, and there was not any way they could tell what channel, or production was being watched, as claimed in the ads, or indeed if a TV was even being used.,the whole thing was a con to frighten people to pay, that other wise might not. It is also worth remembering the BBC are "not" an independent Broadcaster, they are owned and run by the Government, and do dictate what version of a news story the public see, and can do that at any time they wish, (any party can, and all do, that are in the 4 year term, and what the type of content they wish to push in normal drama, with regard to some views expressed in them, or indeed cancel some shows they do not approve of, and the government also own at least one of what used to be called ITV stations, to ensure if they say and show something, then all the other independent stations will follow along with it, and broadcast the same line of content, all rather simple, when you know how it works, and they have been doing it from the start of the BBC , they also control news paper content too in the same way.
@@Cortinaman63 As a former Postie, I can confirm that the equipment inside those vans is for show. Many Years ago, the detector vans were driven by Posties as we knew all the local streets. The TV license man sat in the back calling out unlicensed addresses, from a printed list he had on a clipboard; which we drove to and he would go only, to those doors and tell them, they'd been detected watching TV without a license and most either paid up then or got a license the next day. They mostly did this in the evenings when people were at home, watching tv.
You would think that by now, with all these fines that they've scratched up, they'd be able to afford at least one of the things they've been telling us is the backbone of their operation. And, if it's true that the police must be shown some sort of evidence in order to accompany them, why are the police not releasing statements that TVL are lying to the public? Do they like being implicated in humongous lies? If I were head honcho of the police - I'd be really upset if my personnel were being used like that. I'd want to put the record straight and then tell TVL that they can't have a police escort until the provide evidence of a crime.
Tv detection now is pointless as having at tv or device isn't against the licence, it's what you use it for, they have to prove
Glad you stated tv dictator vans instead of detector vans, they harassing my 83 year old mum, it disgusting
There has never been a prosecution using detector van's because there is nothing in them, its all smoke and mirrors, im ex military intelligence, and i can tell you there is so many digital signals in a house that it would be impossible on oath to say witch one was a tv, it could be your fridge or a phone or playstation you get the picture.
Hope this helps.
Over 10 year ago I was stood inside a TV Detector Van at Post Office vehicle workshop premises ... (who did the maintenance & servicing)
apart from some seats, it was an EMPTY VAN, with a retractable TV Aerial on the roof.
Yet a real crime takes years to make its way through our courts because no time.
I had one turn up at my door and said I needed a licence as he saw a "TV" in my front room. Told him to clear off, then received a court summons. Was thrown out as the agent didn't read a caution to me first. Also because he had seen the computer monitor and assumed it was a tv before making it know to me he was there, again this was used against TV licencing and thrown out of court. This was before you needed a licence for BBC Iplayer catchup.
Looking in through the windows? Should have reported him to the police, and pushed firmly for a prosecution.
Having a tv us not a reason for having a licence, unless this was years ago when it was differant, now with mobiles, tablet, pc etc all can watch live TV and access bbc iPlayer but they have to prove u are watching live
I keep my curtains closed permanently.
TV is fine no licence needed.
A TV is fine no licence needed.
Never ever plead guilty to anything even if you are guilty. Let them prove you are guilty. The best advice my father ever gave me.
How is his stay in HMP doing......
That's how you get a longer sentence. You shouldn't give legal advice, son.
The problem is, if you do not plead guilty when you are actually guilty - you may end up with a much heftier penalty or prison sentence when you are found guilty by the court in the end. So if you want a lighter penalty/sentence - it's often best to plead guilty, if you are guilty.
That's horrible advice. So, even if you know you've done something bad and you feel remorse, you shouldn't be trying to make the victim's life any easier because you might escape justice if you lie? That was his advice?
@janburn007 it's a gamble, if you make them prove guilt with no input from you, it's often much harder for them to do so. The difference between having enough evidence to arrest someone to try and rattle their cage into slipping up, and actually being able to charge a person without any input from them can be quite a bit.
First of all thanks for all your time and information, and secondly my story isn't probably much different from the others. When I came to England in 2010 I did pay TV Licence fees simply because I was told to do so by Letting Agency. I stopped watching crap in TV long long time before though. Then I have learned I don't really need to pay because I do not watch or record ....so I cancelled Direct Debit. Obviously the letters start to popping in, so I told them I don't need to pay, 2 years past ....you know the rest. I went stubborn at some point and I will not tell them I won't pay, I simply collect every letter, read it quickly and laugh at that pathetic organisation. It's been almost two years and I still laugh from what are they putting in :P
I have 4 TV units, many mobile phones, smart watches and you name it ( we're family of 3 ) but no one, no ONE watch that crap as we have better things to do. My wife did let one of them by mistake inside and they recorded on their papers that there is no coax comming into the building, yet letters still come.
They never had Detector Vans....just a list of every property in the UK and who has paid
That was very clear, thank you. I cancelled my tv licence two years ago via the proper channels and heard no more until last week, the second anniversary of my cancellation. I re submitted my declaration that I do not need a tv licence and assume that another two years should elapse before the next ‘reminder’. My only complaint is during the process of declaring I do not require their services, I was informed in no uncertain terms that someone may visit me ‘to check’.
That made me want to bite a puppies ear… I’m still seething a week later. I almost want a sales person to visit me ‘to check’… it won’t end well…
Years ago I told them I do not own a TV and even allowed the enforcement guy in to confirm that. I was told at the time that 2 years is how long it will be before they put you back on the mailing list.
Oh Liliwen, me too. I know how you feel. We have to keep our indignation contained, though, whatever they do to us. An overly robust reaction might be second on the list of what they can 'inconvenience' us with.
@@eddiecobbett4084never let them in your house
It is the mentality of guilty until proven innocent and I cannot think of anything else you have to opt out of to stop being harassed.
They rely on bluffing & intimidation, no response no target.
"I ain't got a TV mate."
Worked for me and they haven't been back since. That was over 10 years ago.
When I was a BBC engineer back in the 80s there was talk of CRTs (old glass tvs) emitting a back emf from the high voltage coils which was detectable, this was plausible but questionable. I never saw, heard of or believed in detector vans. In my opinion they do not exist.
They don’t exist. It’s just a fear mongering for the gullible people
yes the line timebase section of a crt tv or monitor does radiate a fair bit of electromagnetic interference, try going near an operating crt tv with an am radio, you'll soon see what i mean.. things nowadays with non crt based tvs, i dont know how they could do it, the power supply circuitry will radiate a bit but so would any device with a switch mode power circuit in it,
the old crts used to generate an intermediate frequency which could be detected and was evidence of a tv in use. If they had anything these days it would have shown up in court as BBB mentions.
@@jimsadler8035 i wouldnt have thought the IF would radiate enough to be detectable 6ft away, let alone outside a house , if it did it'd cause problems within the tv itself or any nearby device also with similar RF/IF circuitry
Yes, the back emf or if through the rooftop aerial. Same as the TV would interfere with an AM radio. Direction finding antennae might have got the culprit in a street, but not a block of flats. Bear in mind if engineers want to detect a tiny signal, they can. But all in the past now.
Could those large amount of prosecutions be involving the elderly that previously didnt require a license and are made an easy target by the BBC ?
I understand that most of the prosecutions are single mothers on low income but the elderly are also very vulnerable.
So yes you are (unfortunately) probably correct.
Approx 75% are women, many single mums.
@@Thurgosh_OG that makes so much sense,a couple of decades ago I was a (very)young single mum,had just moved into my first ever (rented) home,having lived at home previously I didn't even know about TV licences,they knocked at my door, I said "Hi come in,sorry no I didn't know I needed one,shall I buy one now from you?" at which point they said "see you in court" It really was a genuine mistake,I was given a fine which meant going without food to pay.I have never forgotten that cruelty,no humanity in them at all
Not by the BBC. By this government which stopped the grant to the BBC in respect of those over 75 and made the BBC fund the World Service which i.s actually an extension of the UK government.
@@Thurgosh_OGmakes sense that's the case I'm single disabled mum so not working at present notified them after moving i didn't need one (which I dont) still turned up at my door a week later...didn't let them in of course told guy I had already informed them online he took few details & left not heard from them since luckily I was clued up to step outside into close to speak to him & shut door behind me...never let them In they have no right to access your property & can overstep their boundaries.
love you Danny
A Tory politician said the licence is there because you pay it it's that simple. I never have and never will.
Got our first threatening letter today. I look forward to many many more. I haven't watched tv for years. I own one for films and gaming and thats it.
We cancelled our subscription and used their online form to let them know we no longer needed a licence. That's when the threatening letters started arriving. After 6 months and 6 more letters I phoned TVLicencing and told them to stop sending letters. They asked a lot of personal details which I refused to give other than the address. I was informed that the best they could do was a 2 year suspension. That is due to run out soon, so any letters from them will just get thrown in the bin.
Why in gods name do you read the letters. Stick THEM STRAIGHT INTO BIN.
I called them and told them i no longer require a tv licence. However, after leaving me alone for 2 years the letters started and they haven't stopped.
Its not a TV licence, its BBC licence.
No it's not - you need a TV licence tor watching any TV channel live off air, and not ALL the money raised goes to the BBC.
It was a joke, its actually a TV signal/BBC content licence. @@transientaardvark6231
Tax
@@transientaardvark6231LIES
Interesting title, years ago I told them over them phone that I find their letters harassing and it's an offence to harass someone, they insisted it wasn't harassment, as I understand it, it's not up to them to decide if I feel harassed it's up to me and would be for a magistrate / judge to decide if it was. As I also understand it's only lawful to be harassed by powers that be if you're suspected of committing a crime, if you're not committing a crime and innocent then it has to be harassment and illegal, yet they won't accept it...
I also made a call demanding they stop sending letters as I don't have need of a TV licence, the ONLY way I found they would do it was if I gave them all my details, which again I am pretty sure comes under DPA as I don't have nor do I want any services or contract with them. They are not a government body they are a company and business, what they do is wrong!
BBC are quite simply above the law and law unto themselves.
"'TV Licensing' is a trade mark of the BBC and is used under licence by companies contracted by the BBC to administer the collection of the television licence fee and enforcement of the television licensing system" - From the horses mouth on their $ ite
Haven't paid it in 17 years. Jog on.
I was outside having a smoke once when the TV licencing came to my neighbours door ( I was behind a fence nobody knew I was there )
Firstly he knocks the door, my neighbour is a woman living alone with her children. She doesn't answer the door and shouts to ask who it is, his responce? " I have ID "
She repeats, who is it? He reluctantly had to tell her who he was, and she opened the door.
" my tv is only used for my kids game consoles " door closed.
I've never been so proud.
The only evidence they get is what comes out of your mouth, or if you're stupid enough to actually let them in.
Simplest way to stop them: Shut your mouth, then shut the door.
If I'm not expecting visitors, I don't even answer the door in the first place, just as I don't answer phone calls from numbers I don't recognise.
@@englishciderlover7347 Excellent advice. Friends and others with arranged appointments always ring/email/text etc, anyone else can stand in the pouring rain for all I care 🤣
@@englishciderlover7347 Same. I've never understood why some (most?) people feel they must answer the phone or open the door, even when they've no idea who it is.
100% agree, they are only salespeople,
I seem to recall they'd set up about 6 separate 'special investigations' on my property, but none of their officers ever called round (to my knowledge. All the letters were addressed to 'the occupier' so their investigations didn't go so far as checking the electoral register to find a name for my address. After about 12 years of me ignoring them, they finally gave up on me... not had a letter from them since about 2013. :)
Same, got all those ridiculously worded letters claiming terrible things were going to happen. Dicked about and went online to change the name of the occupier a few times to something punny, got bored and started shedding them straight away.
I SORN my car last year because it had a problem so would not pass the MOT. I have not been pestered by DVLA once. Every month I get a letter from the BBC, talk about harassment. I keep these threatening letters unopened until the day I can’t take it anymore, when I will go to the doctors threatening to take my own life because of the stress they cause!
I have now had 8 years of threatening letters as described on this report!!
They are threatening which has made me more resolute that I am not responsible for telling them I do not watch the required TV.
Additionally, for three of those years, there was not even a house here - proven by the planning details to knock the old one down and build a new one - but the letters continued.
I have learned a lot from these videos and if a clown visits me he will park in the yard because I am in the sticks. Either my agricultural forklift or my 14 tonne 360 digger will escort his vehicle back on to the highway!! Bring it on.
There was an utterly disgusting TVL advert on BBC Radio 4 this year coinciding with university term time - basically saying that "your children won't be in touch now for months, and you'll be worried, so buy them a TV license and maybe they'll phone to chat about your joint favourite programmes."
The level of manipulation here is just evil.
Especially as most of them wouldn't' legally need a license because they don't watch broadcast tv or use iplayer, most have one or more of the streaming services and no interest in terrestrial tv.
@@Thurgosh_OG 30-50 years from now, the number of people watching live TV will probably be negligible. Things have changed hugely from the 1970s and '80s.
Not that I've used the facility but one of the top media providers (Netflix or Prime - can't remember which) have this button for a 'watch party' which, I think, is where you and your uni kids can watch exactly the same program at exactly the same time. May even be able to talk about what's being watched WHILE it's being watched, too. With each other!! I've not tried it. Without trying it - I already know that it makes that BBC advert so very pathetic. Let's get this straight - the BBC are proud of their version where you can email, or phone, your child and suggest they watch something that you either have already watched or you may plan to watch? Then you sit and wait for them to hopefully watch it and then you wait for them to want to phone you to talk about it? Oh no. Oh, dear me, no.
I'm actually, honestly, feeling pity. God, that's desperate! That's a pensioner door to door selling mini discs. Now I want to buy the mini discs just because I feel so sorry for him.
@mickeythompson9537
> There was an utterly disgusting TVL advert on BBC Radio 4 this year coinciding with university term time
> - basically saying that "your children won't be in touch now for months, and you'll be worried, so buy them
> a TV license and maybe they'll phone to chat about your joint favourite programmes."
> The level of manipulation here is just evil.
Manipulation?
Evil?
You don't actually think like a normal, rational person, do you.
@@anonnona8099 It IS manipulation - and it is evil. Thank you for taking so much trouble to re-quote from the other comment. Are you normal?
It doesn't help that they LIE - I have two e-mails dated 20/06/22 and 21/11/22, both records of 'No license required' at my address, both stating that they wouldn't be in touch for another 6 months - you'll note that there is only 5 months between them and I'm reasonably sure there was at least one more 'reminder' sent between them that I just ignored. I mainly object to their implied assumption that I can't live without a television despite not having bothered with one for the past 10 years or more.
Yup - the disbelief that you could possibly be able to get by without one is alarming in so many ways
@@transientaardvark6231 How did our ancestors survive for thousands of years without TV?
When I’ve mentioned to people that I don’t watch tv anymore (after they’ve mentioned what’s happening on a series they’re watching or similar) I get some funny looks. People find it hard to believe I think.
I read, enjoy art and some crafting or sometimes watch a dvd,which I do use my tv for. I know that there’s those small dvd players ( IF they’re still sold) that are about an ipad size? However not much good if there’s more than one wanting to watch a dvd.
I did the same over a year ago and filled the form out and have never recieved any other letter or email from them since👍
After almost 20 years of non-payment and an avalanche of letters that could fill my house, they've gave up sending me any more. It's a shame because every letter they send I know it costs them money even if it's only a little bit of money. I don't watch TV anyway so I welcome the letters and them wasting their money contacting me and threatening me lol
Years ago, I used to watch a lot of terrestrial tv, but now my habits have changed because of the internet.
The UK TV License is a thing of the past because most people's viewing habits have changed greatly, it is a dinosaur and BBC viewing should be pay per view or privatised.🙎
Don't open the door or let them in. If you buy a new television, have it delivered to a friend or relatives house, assuming they have a tv licence. Always worked for me. Scores and scores of threatening letters but just bin them as they're of no consequence.
I've not bought a new TV in years. Do they still ask for your details in the shop and refuse to sell the TV to you if you don't provide them? I had that many years ago when buying a TV. I asked what they needed them for and was told "for security".
I've heard of people paying cash and using a dead relatives details. Don't know if this is still a thing these days though.
@@seanmurray8051 If your picking up a TV from the shop and paying cash you can just make up a fake name and address.
My mum had to go into residential care and pay for that care herself. In trying to minimise mums outgoings I cancelled her direct debit for the TV licence and then the letters started to come thereafter. I think we got about 10 in the end and it would appear that those managing the process never has the wisdom to consider why a 91 year old would suddenly stop paying. So on the basis of stupid being what stupid is, I just let them burn a load of money pursuing this.
I used to get them when I lived in a flat in London for a couple of years. I didn’t even have a TV! No one over did show up, but I wish they had. Would have been so funny to see them burst into the flat to be faced by a living room with two sofas facing each other, not a tv 😂
Capita may have the right to send out letters as part of their enforcement role, but there's no question that the wording of their letters is designed to pressurise, intimidate and frighten. For example, why does the customer need to be informed of the code that Capita has assigned to its investigation into non-payment of a TV licence? Because it sounds weightier and much more serious - it conjures up images of a criminal record number. It is designed for the sole purpose of frightening the recipient into stumping up for a TV licence that they may not need.
I have two letters confirming that i have told them "no licence required" and still get the harassing letters. I put them back in the post "return to sender". They are threatening in their nature, assuming guilt. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? It is a national disgrace how they can employ these tactics because as you state, many are intimidated by them. Any other company doing this would be in breach of the Law, no? Detector vans are a con, another empty threat. If they call at your property, send them packing without delay. Do not let them in!
They quit that tv license bs in Holland decades ago
at 8:51 ''I have filled in that form and it works''
if only it were that simple. i find myself filling in that form every year. in fact you'll notice on that form it explicitly states that they will only keep you 'off the record' for such time.
It’s a slight hassle moving their letters straight from the letterbox to the recycling bin unopened, but it only takes 15s so I can live with it. Been doing it for 15 years and still haven’t had a visit.
I have had three.
Last one I told the guy “We can spend 20 minutes shouting at each other and you go away earning nothing or you can Foxtrot Oscar now and earn nothing! He chose the latter.
NB I do not use TV or Iplayer.
With regard to the letters I couldn’t write to someone as NastyGuy Debt Collection Services but TVL can
It's probably better to just mark them "RTS" and put them back in the mailbox. Unless the BBC has a deal with the Post Office, I think there is a charge for returned mail.
@@brolohalflemming7042 I did that in the beginning, can’t be a@@ed now.
@@seanhayes2998 I do it with all the junkmail and leaflets the Post Office delivers me. Apparenly I could be fined for putting rubbish in post boxes, but if they put it in mine, it seems fair to give it back.
IF they come to the door they can't force themselves in...Close it, or better yet, don't open it.
I always remember when I moved into my house 20 years ago. Within a couple of weeks I had all the usual letters/junk mail from utility companies etc. Welcome to your new home, please give us a call we'll be happy to help you blah blah blah all very polite and quite nice in a way expect for the tv licensing letter. This property is not licensed for a tv, if you do not obtain one you can be fined taken to court, prosecuted etc. etc. I'd just moved into my first home and within a week I had this threatening letter from them which made me dislike them straight away. I remember I did express my feelings to them when I called them!!!
I have the same experience as you. I don't have an Ariel, dish or online tv as im just not interested. I reply every two years and get no problems. It could be said i shouldn't have to ( i don't go fishing, but dont have the fisheries ministry asking to see if i have rods) but really i don't need the grief. Thanks for video 👍
As a side note, i have written to the BBC telling them they may visit , as there is nothing to see . For me 8 years no hassle
Brilliant video
Warrants are rarely issued to TVL, so unless an inspector claims to be in possession a warrant and can produce the genuine article, they have no power of entry.
I’m not sure but I believe it’s an offence to claim you have a warrant when you don’t have one. Hopefully BBB will confirm.
Great video. The BBC should be closed down and a Class Action against all involved and huge compensation pay outs. All Enforcement staff do what they want and do look in windows.