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tvlicensing.co.uk = spam & crap business April 21st 2006, ricardo
This company kind of reminds me SGAE in Spain. I wouln't be able to run a company creating fear in the people in order to paying me. It's just annoying.

Check out the letters that they send:
Dear Owner/Occupier,

OFFICIAL WARNING - THIS PROPERTY IS UNLICENSED

You are hereby notified that we have authorised officers from our Enforcement Division to visit your home and interview you under caution, as our records show there is still no TV Licence at this address and as yet we have received no response to previous communications from you.

Your statement will be taken in compliance with the Police and Criminal Evicence Act 1984*, and is the first step in our action to prosecute if we find evidence that you watch or record television without a valid license.

I feel it is my duty to inform you that if found guilty, you could receive a maximum fine of £1,000, and your name will be added to our National Enforcement Database. We take this offence very seriously and last month alone we caught 24,184 people.

To avoid an appearance in court before a magistrate I would strongly advise you to call 0870 241 5698 or buy a TV Licence online at www.tvlicensing.co.uk

Yours faithfully,

John Hales
Head of TV Licensing Enforcement Division

Please see reverse for important TV Licensing information, including exclusion and how to pay.

A TV Licence currently costs £131.50 for colour and £44 for black and white.

*In Scotland interviews & cautions are made in line with Scottish criminal law.
So, imagine receiving letters like that every month. Now imagine receiving letters like that being a person that HATES TV!

I wish I could just flah the mail as SPAM like in gmail, and don't caring about it anymore, but that's oldschool mail that you can't stop. If you want to stop it you have to call them and then let them do a check of your flat to see if there is a rubbish tranferer to your brain machine (aka TV).

F*U*C*K O*F*F!
9 comments written so far...

have you copied the entire text by typing? :-O
April 21st 2006, sole
wasn't that hard to do :P
April 22nd 2006, trace
Weird that you have to pay more for colour TV...
In Munich was the same shit, but with radio too. I also didn't have a TV nor a radio, and I had to bear a fat smelly inspector checking my entire home for such an apparatus... They even checked the inside of my beloved PC looking for a TV card (well, it was naked, so he just looked :P)... fucking assholes.
May 4th 2006, Cay
yeah, in case they come I would expect them to check if there is any TV card in any of our computers.. how many we got? uhm.. just 4.. we'll see..
May 4th 2006, mr.doob
Nobody will touch my MAC!
May 4th 2006, sole
hahaha
The tactic we use on the squats is just letting them know that they are not welcomed ;P
I guess it's kinda different on you "own" place.
Still, they have no ways to go inside if you don't let them, and this can be achieved in vast varied ways.
Kevin Mitnick will show you many ways; the easy way= nobody is at home
May 22nd 2006, Carles Wataru
Well, I guess I'll have to do something like that.. you live in a deserted house then?
May 22nd 2006, mr.doob
It depends, to many people knocking on my door every morning... and i don't like been waken up against my will.
Besides I have two cats that can work well as an excuse for unexpected visits.
May 22nd 2006, Carles
It happens to be a broadcast receiving licence, not a licence to own a tele. You can have as many of the damn things as you like. Possession does not necessarily mean use and they cannot enter your premisses against your wishes unless accompanied by a police officer with a search warrant. I think they just want to wear you down. What a sad bunch when they cannot conceive life without a TV! They are single-handedly doing more to bugger up the ozone layer than the rest of the so called "dirty" countries.
July 27th 2009, Bozo

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