Reporting someone about having no TV LIcence?

Ever since I bought my mum a freeview box donkeys years ago, I get yearly letters saying that I need to have a separate licence for it. Our family's licence is in my name, the box was registered to my mum who also has a licence, yet I get threatening letters telling me I need a second licence every year because...no human I have spoken to has any idea. Every year I get the stroppy letter and every year I am assured that the error has been corrected, but this has been going on for 15 years!

Why would it be right to report someone and get them onto trouble when it has no effect on you whatsoever?

Genuinely curious why you feel you should report them? What will it achieve?

You need to mind your own business and live and let live!

Don't be silly! You'll feel a fool.

Petty AF! I do t pay mine cos none of us watch live tv. The price is crazy for such shite content.

It's the Labour Party though that will carry on with the TV licence.

Took the words right out of my mouth there. I'm happy to pay the licence fee and I like a lot of BBC output, but reporting people for suspected non-payment is gruesomely vindictive and petty.

I have recently got a letter about TV licensing. Have never not had one.

We have TV’s that we can watch Netflix and Amazon on and never watch the BBC unless I hear about a series that sounds good.

You need to get a life OP. Can’t imagine wanting to report someone when you don’t even know if they need one.

I don't have vitriol against the BBC but I think the way the licensing is run is a disgrace.

It also infuriates me that there is so much content that the BBC has that they don't have on iplayer.

I had a three months free no advert subscription to ITV and there is so much stuff on there that is made by the BBC.

I have lived abroad, I lived in Australia for a decade and the TV was absolutely shit.

I love the BBC and thing the licence fee is incredible value, but even I wouldn't attempt to shop people you think should be paying and aren't.

Keep your beak out of other people's business.

Pretty sure Netflix is around £10.99 a month now.

Anyway, warning letters about TV licenses are send to basically every household nowadays, if they haven't paid up. Some don't have a TV, some don't watch live TV, and others are evading the cost. How do you know which category your neighbours fall under? Why start shit stirring?

There is a cheap Netflix at £4.99 with ads which is SD picture and you can't download so ok if you watch very occasionally, the normal HD Netflix is £10.99 with no ads

@Wagonwheelforme

Its not “vitriol against the BBC” it’s just astonishment that anyone could be so nosy and petty.

The vitriol against the BBC mostly comes from them hiding a predator within their organisation for many years.

An ‘open secret’ apparently.

They should be closed down. Disgusted.

That’s petty to the point of vindictiveness. Benefit fraud yes. TV livence? Get a life.

The best content is made in the US and they definitely don’t even think about the BBC let alone compete with it.

The benchmarking argument is old and tired in a world with multiple steaming apps.

Why should I pay for you to watch BBC TV?

Am sure Netflix costs more than this.

Also can’t believe the vitriol against the BBC- there is a vast wealth of content across TV radio, and online. It’s an amazing resource, and sets a benchmark for quality.

it means all the other broadcasters have to compete at that level and so, all our channels and our news programmes are better as a result.

I often wonder if people have seen how shit foreign telly is?

What has gender got to do with the OP?!

Ignore and Concentrate on your own life!

OP, what are you actually hoping to achieve by "reporting: these people?

Do they need a licience?

I don't have a licence, cant remember the last time I did - want to grass me up?

Not every one needs a licence, as long as you dont watch tv live or the iplayer you dont need one and believe me theres plenty of content on Nextflix, prime, ITVx,.STV, UKdrama etc etc etc

They finally stopped sending me demanding letters about 10 years ago

I live in a block of flats but our landlord has his business underneath us. It's coded to get into our staircase and no one can get to our flats unless the landlord or a tenant opens the door.

No way am I paying for a license (I don't watch TV anyway , prob once a month I might watch something)
But I don't get why people in our block pays it when you won't have them knocking the door.

So no I wouldn't report this . I would join them and not pay either . If you can't beat them join them.

I have a license and I still get these letters. They are computer generated as everyone knows. I can’t believe that a real person would be actually asking this question

OP, just leave it. Stop paying yours too, it’s an absolute rip off.

It’s responses like your’s that make me wonder just how many BBC programmes are actually watched by tv licence avoiders.
Bet you turned to the BBC when the Queen died. Not that you’ll admit it.

i believe you need one to watch any bbc tv, whether live or not.

Because they want to watch those things. The BBC has been irrelevant for me for years.