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Reporting someone about having no TV LIcence?

209 replies

WhiteDragon66 · 06/04/2024 21:39

At the moment I am living in an HMO. I have lived here for coming up to three years now.
I have a licence. However I have noticed that two of the residents within the household have been receiving letters from TV LIcensing for quite a long time now.
There are six of us all together living here. I think that I am the only one who is licensed though?
Would I be right in reporting just these two individuals, do you think, or should I just simply ignore this??
Any feedback would be really very helpful. Thank you.

OP posts:
Onabench · 06/04/2024 23:20

That seems spiteful.

Topseyt123 · 06/04/2024 23:23

Ignore it. It's their problem, not yours. You'd be rather a busybody if you reported them.

PuppyMonkey · 06/04/2024 23:25

Any feedback would be really very helpful. Grin

SwordToFlamethrower · 06/04/2024 23:43

None of your business.

Universalsnail · 06/04/2024 23:46

Dear lord I can't imagine willingly being this much of a nark sorry. You are unreasonable. Get on with your own life.
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DelphiniumBlue · 06/04/2024 23:49

You only need one licence for the household, if it is a household and not separate bedsits.
Why would you want to snitch on your housemates anyway?

MintGreenC · 07/04/2024 00:00

😝

Beezknees · 07/04/2024 00:02

This is one of the most pathetic things I've read on here.

Loveyourselffirst · 07/04/2024 00:05

Ignore

justanothermanicmonday1 · 07/04/2024 00:05

🤣🤣🤣

IdealHomeExhibition · 07/04/2024 00:08

You must be great to live with. Bet you try and tell them how many sheets per shit too

Jellybeanz456 · 07/04/2024 00:08

Why report? If your pissed off that you pay and they don't then simply stop paying!!!

FlipCharter · 07/04/2024 00:09

I got nasty threatening letters from BBC licensing for years.

Throughout all of that time I had a valid TV license. The BBC license fee rottweilers just messed up their info (probably something to do with my maiden name/married name).

Honestly, they are so aggressive, incompetent and deliberately misleading that I have no sympathy for them. And this has been a deliberate policy of the BBC for decades. I fully sympathise with anyone who doesn't pay, just because the licence fee enforcers are such bastards.

Hermittrismegistus · 07/04/2024 00:16

VeniVidiWeeWee · 06/04/2024 23:18

Why shouldn't I work cash in hand to avoid paying for other people's education, NHS, benefits payments.

On most of the replies above, I should.

The shitty, supposedly impartial, BBC is in no way comparable with those things.

JanglingJack · 07/04/2024 00:21

Yes absolutely report them and turn your volume up loud whilst watching BBC live.

Are you gutted that you are paying yours like a mug? Jealous that they are not?

Just mind your own.

poppyslashtulip · 07/04/2024 00:28

What in the heck? Are you just bitter because you’ve spent money on yours and they haven’t? Or do you feel a strong moral duty to report? Maybe you should become a cop.

MeDaughterMerope · 07/04/2024 00:30

The news is the most reliable and accurate source in a world where people make up random shit on the internet.

Didn't the BBC quite recently try and gaslight the nation that a woman killed a man by throwing him bodily to his death.

I imagine they may have 'corrected' it by now, saying it was in fact a male murderer. Still use she throughout no doubt though eh?

Caswallonthefox · 07/04/2024 00:30

I haven't had a license for 8 years now. My TV is currently dead and is a blank picture on my chimney wall.
I get a letter/ email every couple of years asking me to let them know if I still have no TV.
If anybody came to check, I'd show them my dead TV, I'd even plug it in to prove the fecking thing is dead.
I think it's crap that we have to pay so much for, what I hear are rubbish programmes.

Purplelimesoda · 07/04/2024 00:36

Mind your own business, worry about your own stuff and keep your nose out snooping at people's mail is not a nice trait and you don't sound very nice.

Plus I thought you only needed one licence per building so they have a licence ..... YOURS!

CammyChameleon · 07/04/2024 00:36

As far as I'm concerned, they're the BBC's problem to sort out or not.

There are far worse things your neighbours can be up to than dodging the antiquated TV license - leaving dog shit everywhere, loud druggy alcoholic shenanigans, DV etc.

I'd mind my own.

YireosDodeAver · 07/04/2024 00:36

If your only evidence is that they are getting letters from TV licensing that they don't have a licence then there's nothing to report. The authorities already know, that's why they are getting the letters.

Do you have evidence that they are watching/streaming BBC/terrestrial TV content? If not then they aren't doing anything wrong.

Bellesbookshop · 07/04/2024 00:39

What happens when you don't renew your TV licence?

NameChangedAgainn · 07/04/2024 00:39

Wow OP I sincerely hope you don't report them.
Firstly, you can't report them for just not having a TV licence. I don't have one, I don't need one. You would have to report them for watching or recording live TV without a licence, and unless you've been spying in their rooms, how do you know they're not only watching Netflix etc?
Secondly, what on earth would you gain from reporting them?!
Thirdly, letters from the TV licence don't mean they don't have a licence. My friend was on a payment plan with them and the direct debit bounced (1 letter) then they tried to take it a few days later (another letter) then they cancelled the direct debit (a third letter) then she called them and reset it back up once she'd been paid and she got two confirmation letters for that. Unless you're opening their post, which is Illegal, surely you don't know what the letters even say?

NameChangedAgainn · 07/04/2024 00:40

Bellesbookshop · 07/04/2024 00:39

What happens when you don't renew your TV licence?

They'll write to you asking if you still need a licence. You can go online and declare that you don't need one.

NameChangedAgainn · 07/04/2024 00:42

Caswallonthefox · 07/04/2024 00:30

I haven't had a license for 8 years now. My TV is currently dead and is a blank picture on my chimney wall.
I get a letter/ email every couple of years asking me to let them know if I still have no TV.
If anybody came to check, I'd show them my dead TV, I'd even plug it in to prove the fecking thing is dead.
I think it's crap that we have to pay so much for, what I hear are rubbish programmes.

I've never had a licence and have never had a visit. If they turn up though, best thing to do is not let them in, as they're known for faking evidence.

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