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the tv licencing people have been leaving threatening letters saying they called round and that if i would have been in i woulda been fined £1000. i've not paid for a year. should i be worried? cunts. |
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Oh No! It's the TV Detector man! He's asking if I have a telly... err.. I think I'm gonna have to lie! |
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geelong ehh? |
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Be worried. They're persistent cunts I hear. |
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They're also lying, unethical, unreasonable cunts. I got threatening "last warning" letters when I had paid. I actually went to see them about it and they said "don't worry if you've paid, ignore them; we just send those to everyone to scare people who haven't paid into paying." NB: I had paid about 6 weeks earlier. This wasn't some case where I'd paid after the letter had been sent but before it arrived. I pointed out that aside from wasting my time making me go to see them to rectify this, how on earth was this reasonable behaviour? What if an elderly person had recieved this letter (having paid), but was so worried/confused by it that they paid again. They said that if a double payment was made, they would refund it. I said "I don't believe you. If your admin systems are good enough to spot that and rectify that, why can't they spot who has paid and who has not." The guy just looked amused and it took a great deal of restraint not to spit in his face. The only reason I don't begrudge paying TV licence is because it pays for the BBC website and also Radio 1 and 1xtra. Their TV is pretty poor IMO and aside from Doctor Who there hasn't been anything I've regularly watched on it in the past 3 years. |
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ha, i think we send those letters out from where i work |
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Cunt! :D |
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that shouldn't shock me, but it does. fucking hell. |
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dont worry, all our databases are years out of date. we do loads of mailing stuff for Peugeot, they give new peugeot buyers magazines and shit, and we get hundreds returned every issue because the addresses are completely wrong or the guy they were sent to died 10 years ago |
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Awesome. Sounds like some bright spark in management elected to save a bit of money by sacking a couple of kids who did data entry, even if it means wasting several times their salaries on unneccessary printing/postage costs because records are never updated. The people who try to enforce collection of the TV licencing are fuckers too. They have no legal right to search your house, but they insinuate that they do and most people through ignorance, let them in. |
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Look, do you know, or have a mate that knows anyone who actually IS a TV detector man??? No. Nobody does. They don't exist. What the fuck are they gonna do anyway? They can't do you unless someone comes into your house and actually sees a TV. All that "we've detected it" bollocks is just, er, bollocks. In the unlikely event that anyone does come to your house, just be an obnoxious cunt, don't let 'em in and threaten to physically harm them. They won't come back....seriously, they'll just mark you a a problem case, will have no physical evidence of you having a TV and will not want to send anyone else round coz they might get hurt and then sue for job related damages. |
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true. like road tax. i know someone who has been driving for 4 years and has never taxed any of his cars. and benefit fraud. they just say "we are after you" to scare you. |
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Chin Bwoy is correct. Whilst the technology exists it's too expensive for stuff which is accurate enough to say with any real degree of certainty that you (as opposed to your neighbour) have a TV (as opposed to a computer) in your house. It's far cheaper/easier to send out threatening reminders which will scare the majority of non-payers into paying. Ezkerraldean: Warn your mate re: road tax. A couple of times (in different parts of the country) I've seen police flagging down and spot checking everyare testing car-mounted cameras that can spot (the absence of) tax disks. |
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he has found in-date ones a few times in scrapyards. which is pretty good. but he is still stupid not to pay, if he does get caught its a big nasty fine at least. |
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I got a week suspended prison sentence once for not paying my road tax....well, I got taken to court for not paying it and fined. Then I didn't pay the fines. Then I got fined again for non payment of fines. Which I didn't pay. One day a policeman comes round my house and says he'll be back tomorrow to take me to court again to explain why I haven't paid. I went to court, couldn't satifactortorally explain myself, was a bit cocky and nearly got locked up. They gave me one week to pay it all or I was going down! Needless to say I paid it then..... |
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Yep. Also, police absolutely hate it. If they pull you (possibly for something else) and find you don't have one/it's out of date by more than a week or two, they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks: They'll go over the car with a fine comb, check your tyre wear, serve a producer (take all your documents to the police station), etc. He might think by never driving recklessly he'll not be spotted, but if he's involved in an accident the police turn up at (which may not be his fault in any way), they'll check it as a matter of course. It's not just the police, either. Over zealous car parking attendants report it, as do some neighbours, particularly if parking is in short supply near his house and he parks on the road. For the amount of money saved it's really not worth it. |
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ours come around knocking with ak-47s |
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worst thing is i've had a sky package the past year too... |
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Sky is the biggest fucking waste of money since trophy wives. I wouldn't pay for that shit unless I had money to quite literally burn. It would have to be taxually (I think I've made that word up but I like it) in my favour to get Sky. |
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Sky's business conduct is fucking atrocious and I won't get it on principle, although the cost is enough to put you off too. BTW 'Taxually' is a cool world, I'll start using it. |
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o/*\o Just sent you important e-mail. |
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i got it thru work for £5 per month. couldn't refuse it. consequently after 12 months i've jacked it in cos it goes up to £20. |
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sky? |
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nah. but they deal with sky. |
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if you don't answer the door when they turn up there is nothing they can do. ! |
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you sound like an experrt, please tell me morre |
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regarding road tax,facing gatsos and other speed cameras check tax discs now. |
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I knew it was in the off, but didn't realise it had gone live yet. Is that they generally check them as you go past, or only if you get flashed for speeding at the same time? BTW spoke to that bloke about the 'plates. They're in the post to me now, I'll email you as soon as I've got them if that's okay? |
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just dont answer the door man, i got busted a few years ago, on a sunday mornin! it was the day after i'd moved into the house aswell...the guy who had lived in the house b4 us was still there for a day while we were movin in and he had loads of his mates over for his last night there. so this rottweiler of tv detection knocks on the door like the fuckin police at 10 am on the sunday and one of them answered the door. my housemates TV was literally right in the middle of the floor in front of the door and it was either give em your bank details for direct debit on the spot or a grand fine, fucking nightmare....tv is so shit anyway, you should just get rid of it! and this is my rant for today |
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as far as i know,its checking for road tax as it catches you speeding. but soon cameras will be just checking all tax discs. good news on the plates sir. |
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yes mail away. |
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