To have told the to licence man to piss off?

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I have phoned them so many times and told them we don't need a licence. I have a no licence needed declaration.
So when this guy stood on my doorstep and tried to read me some
Sort of "rights" was IBU to tell him to piss off before shutting the door on him? (It felt amazing)

I had them write to me for months when I told them I had no tv, they ignored that and threatened me with a summons, I told them I had no tv again. They sent someone round and he finally agreed I had no tv. I then started receiving threatening letters about not having a tv license again. I wouldn't care if the bloke is doing his job by knocking on my door. As if they had done their job properly they would not have been so YANBU

If he was just doing his job, yes I think you were unreasonable. Whatever he was reading may have been something he's expected to read. He may not even be fully aware of the frustrations you've experienced. I'm far from perfect and people work my nerves every day but I can't imagine speaking to someone so rudely. Plus, I'd probably worry about how someone might react if I spoke to them like that and they knew where I lived.

They know perfectly well what people experience, but they are on commission, so they don't care.

Cold sales people.

At least double glazing salesmen and Jehovah's Witnesses don't threaten you with prison.

I had one call at my flat at 10pm when I was home alone. I'd already declared I didn't have a TV. My flat at the time was inaccessible as it was behind a locked gate. I would have been really scared at someone turning up at my door.

I told the person it was too late at night to come to someone's house.

Don't you have a TV?

Sounds annoying but YABU to have told him to piss off. He was only doing his job.

What a depressing thread. Firstly that the OP feels she can abuse people doing their job and secondly that other posters think it's fine too.

what does that have to do with anything?

Because someone asked OP upthread how she would like it if people swore at her while she was doing her job

YANBU. Tell them in writing that they are not welcome to come to your door.

To anyone reading this, if you live in a house and someone knocks on the door, open an upstairs window and ask what they want. Stock response "not today thank you" and close door before they can say anything else.

If TV licence "you're at the wrong house" and close window.

Why does everyone open the door?

I had a few call in the years we have not had a TV. Always filled in the form, gave the first caller a trip round the house at ever new address.

Then we moved into a town and they seemed not to believe me. They called every 3 or 4 weeks for about a year... I'd come home and find notes, open the door to a polite man reading me my rights, demanding entry. I got more and more rude/persistent until I told the last man to piss off, I was sick and tired of it.

I got a summons! I responded with my TV owning history and the number of visits... after a couple of rude abrupt emails it all went away!

The door knockers know precisely how crap their communication is and how little rights they have to demand entry. The persistent ones seem to need a short, sharp shock!

Bittern11 yes I do have a TV, why?

what does that have to do with anything?

Because someone asked OP upthread how she would like it if people swore at her while she was doing her job

Bizarrely, the person that asked the first question, was the one that asked the second...

"Leave at once. I will sign nothing. If you want to enter my property get a warrant."

And close the door.

They basically call everyone who does not watch TV to be liars, which I strongly object to.
We don't watch TV as we haven't got a TV. We also do not watch iplayer as we're not interested. We have told them this many times but are continually ignored, and now we have given up.
This hasn't stopped them from harrassing us on a monthly basis for the past few months.
We received another letter yesterday informing us that 'if they don't hear from us by February 1st, they will pass us on to their XYZ division for INVESTIGATION.
Well, bring it on.!
I already know the law re TV licensing, am a law abiding citizen, and don't need bullyboy tactics and meaningless twisted words on a piece of paper directed at me without reason.

"Bittern11 yes I do have a TV, why?"

So you don't ever watch anything on the BBC live then?

NotSaying I know

Nope. Couldn't even if I wanted to, we don't have a package like sky or virgin, we don't even have an ariel, my son watches YouTube and Netflix, my partner and I watch Netflix, amazon etc. That ok with you?

Bollocks to all the 'they were only doing their job' shit.
If he or his employer had done their job properly he wouldn't have been knocking the door in the first place.

Worra did contradict herself there that's for sure.

We have a TV thats just hooked up to an xbox. As far as I know we wouldn't need a license if that was the only TV we owned.

myfavourite "Why does everyone open the door?"

because 99.9% of the people who ring the bell are people I want to either talk to, receive post or parcels from or let in, and furthermore I am more often downstairs than upstairs during waking hours when in the house, so I'd feel a right turnip running up the stairs and yelling at the postman/ next door neighbour/ DC's mates through the window - presumably that is the same for most people!