Just this moment got an email for TV licence renewal. 150 quid! I've thought this pensioner lurk is a good deal, but BBC doesn't give an 'aged' discount until one is 74! That's damn discrimination against the aged. I can get free glasses to watch the damn TV, but have to pay 150 quid to turn the friggin' thing on! Not good. Think I might put a ban on my TV and spend the afternoons in Currys!
You could ride to Currys , that way you get to ride one of your bikes and watch free TV.....kill two birds with one stone as the saying goes! Providing the nearest Currys is within 30 miles and it's not raining!!
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you, Alan-lee. I am a bit 'technologically challenged' when it comes to Fire Sticks and apps recently spoken of in another thread. I also pay through the nose for BT Sport (as do many others) but I guess I'm satisfied by reliable service.
Don't pay it. What are they gonna do ? Oh and have a look at Darkmattertv for all and every things sports.
They'll get me when they're driving around with the scanners and then I'll have to sell a bike to pay the damn fine!!
Don't pay the fine......it's only about a month in the clink. You'll save money on utilities whilst you're away and maybe gain some nice new friends who all want to lend you their soap on a rope
As seen on twitter, they can't detect paedophiles within their own company, so what chance they find you ? Just tell them you don't watch BBC anyway.
that's all a blag, they cant pick fuckall up. don't pay um, they send u about 300 letters telling u there coming for u,
I'm getting threatening letters at my new place. I legitimately don't have a tv, I'm not living there and there is no furniture or anything other than tools in there. The latest letter states that they have contacted me on multiple occasions and I have failed to respond, like it is my responsibility to get back to them? Apparently I'm under investigation. Crazy that in this digital age we are still subject to this 'tax'.
What if the cat cushion gives me away? It seems to have stood out to everyone else!! That is simply amazing! True definition of the old 'reverse burden of proof'.
Ignore them.....it lies with them to prove you're using a TV and not for you to prove you're not. Years ago my boyfriend bought the house next door and we knocked the adjoining porches thru for easier access. Being as we had 2 lounges but technically 2 separate houses on paper I unplugged my TV and we watched the one on his side which remained licenced. But, because I'd used one for many years the licensing folks went mental...letter after letter in the same vein as the ones you're getting. I only sent one back, return to sender saying I dont use the TV if you think otherwise then knock yourself out & prove it. Nothing ever happened!
My kinda woman. If I start getting letters, will you live with me and sort them out? I'll let you use the cat cushion!
Only if you wash it first...I know what's been on it!!! .....and clear out that dodgy wardrobe you mentioned the other day ..
It's simple, don't speak to them, don't let them in and if not too late don't give them your name. Send them a Withdrawal of Implied Right of Access then when the Crapita Tax Collector turns up you can do them for trespass. I have a license but the Annexe next door was empty and we used to get inundated with crappy threatening letters. They never had the bollocks to turn up though. As a result I did some reading up on what they can and can't do, and there isn't much they can actually due that isn't bluff and bullshit if you stay within the rules.
