Tv licence ?

[AlwaysHopefull89]

Does anyone still pay their tv licence? If NOT, why not?

we don’t watch bbc at all, stream any live tv or even watch live tv to be honest.

our bill was £180 and I can’t justify paying that anymore if we aren’t using the services? I’m worried if I don’t pay next year when it’s due I’ll get a knock at our door 😂😂

AIBU to cancel ours?

They have no powers if they do come round you have no obligation to open the door to them or engage with them in anyway.

Why on earth would you pay for a licence you dint need ?
Would you pay for Asda even though you shop in in Aldi,s ?

Your brave admitting that on here 🤣😂

Luckily I wasn't in when they knocked but they stuck a letter through my door trying to intimidate me. I thought they were mythical creatures until now! If I did answer the door to them I would tell them to come back with a warrant and close the door.

To try and stop the fucking endless letters and them knocking I suppose. I really don't need some random bloke showing up on my doorstep trying to gain entry into my house, especially as I live alone. No ring doorbell here and don't want one either.

I have no issue at all admitting that. None of my family/friends have one either, or so they tell me. No reason to disbelieve them.

Was round at a friend's once and a TV license inspector knocked on. Heard her telling him she doesn't watch TV while slowly shutting the door in his face and im sat 6 feet away watching This Morning 🤣

I doubt someone will turn up ,
The letters go in a cycle they start off gently reminding you ,you dont have a licence
And then become increasingly hostile telling you theyvhsvr started an investigation and they may send someone round ( they rarely do)
And then the whole cycle starts again

😂🤣

Thing is, if you go online to tell them you don't need a licence they've got your name, email address, street address and possibly (?) your IP address

Why should they be entitled to any of that?

I much prefer them addressing me as The Legal Occupier (on the letters).

Just noticed today that they've started sneaking TV licencing adverts into radio adverts, the ones where the BBC advertises its own services.
It doesn't actually say you need a licence for radio but it implies you're not covered for radio if you don't have one

They came to my door. I told them they had no legal rights of entry . Man was very pushy and intimidating and said he would come back. I closed the door.

Good point
It is very intrusive

I don't pay it.

I dont pay it. I also don't watch live TV nor record live TV nor watch iplayer

However for a month over Christmas I'll pay for a TV licence and then cancel it in January

It worked well for the last 2 years

Love this !

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I doubt someone will turn up ,

As I said previously they did turn up but luckily i wasn't in.

We still pay ours, but we do watch live TV as well as Netflix.
DS bought a house last year and didn't buy a licence. He's been getting letters twice a month since, some even stating dates when they will be calling at his house. He works from home, and nobody has turned up yet. He doesn't watch live tv or iplayer, only Netflix so as it stands he's doing nothing wrong.

They don’t state dates they’ll come. They say things like ‘will you be in on the 15th November?’ And then you read the detail and it says someone could come round at any time. It’s just to scare you. It’s disgusting tbh

Imagine paying £175 a year to the BBC when I pay other subs too. That’s £175 I can spend on my children’s birthday presents. Make it subs like other channels and people can make a decision rather than being forced, co-ersed, intimidated and bullied by a private profit making company

I recently moved and I've just not connected the TV aerial at all. I'm hearing good things about a couple of BBC shows which is giving me FOMO but otherwise I don't miss it. I stream Netflix, All4, Five and ITVX off the internet. I don't listen to the radio. I prefer a podcast.

I haven't taken out a TV licence for about three years. If the BBC made their services subscription only so that (proportionally more) women avoid ending up in court facing prosecution, then I might support it.

I pay it. I used to work for the BBC so it paid my salary. It pays for BBC education and Bite Size even though I don’t have kids. It pays for the BBC World Service in 42 languages, only one of which I speak, which is the best tool for soft power that this country has. And I pay it so that budding camera operators, journalists, editors, studio managers and sound engineers (your kids!) can be trained by the best in the business.

Join the dark side and live a little!

No way!?

Haven't had one for around 10 years. Used to fill in the declaration then moved a couple of years ago and haven't bothered. They shall forever know me as the legal occupier. I'm not giving them my personal details. I get quite a lot of letters. Ds and I have a running joke going when they come through the door, oh look another one saying they will absolutely definitely be coming to our door on x date, or maybe another day, might be on an evening or weekend blah blah 😂 same thing over and over again. They never do visit and if they do I'll give them a little wave out the window.

I kind of want one of the officious cunts to visit so I can slam the door in their face

I had that as well. Really annoyed I wasn’t in. I’d have told them they could come in the day Amazon knocks on my door asking why I don’t have Prime.