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I remember receiving a fair amount of threatening letters about the TV licence as a student, shortly after I moved out of my parents place to attend university.

I remember receiving a fair amount of threatening letters about the TV licence as a student, shortly after I moved out of my parents place to attend university. It was extremely confusing and made me a little anxious. Not only did I not own a TV or watch TV of any kind, even online, any effort to make this clear fell on deaf ears and the threatening letters continued. Eventually it became normality and I learned to drone them out of my conscience but it was such a strange concept to me back then. I'm just thankful I never got anyone knocking on my door demanding to check my room.

Nextgrid 5y ago
I would love for someone to come and visit. I'd take great pleasure in wasting as much of their time as possible and make them believe I'm about to sign up for a license via them (they get commission) just to get these assholes' hopes up. Unfortunately Capita (the company license management is subcontracted to) must really be unlucky with the "investigators" they employ because according to their letters over a dozen "investigations" have been open against me but I have yet to see anyone. /s
- dazc 5y ago
  'Wasting much of their time' though would likely result is someone justifying his/her job by going along with it. Much the same with HMRC (UK tax authority) there is no matter too trivial that they are not willing to spend limitless amounts of time and energy investigating - purely because they can.
  - Nextgrid 5y ago
    I believe the goons are underpaid and make the bulk of their money through commissions (which also encourages their shitty - and potentially fraudulent & unlawful behavior), thus wasting a lot of their time without taking out a license in the end will make a loss for them.
nickkell 5y ago
One friend at uni had his TV with him, but refused to pay the license fee, completely ignoring the numerous letters we all received. A couple of other friends in our halls hid it whilst he was gone for the holidays and left a fake letter informing him it had been confiscated for non-compliance. Very amusing (for everyone else) when he returned!

Nextgrid 5y ago

I would love for someone to come and visit. I'd take great pleasure in wasting as much of their time as possible and make them believe I'm about to sign up for a license via them (they get commission) just to get these assholes' hopes up. Unfortunately Capita (the company license management is subcontracted to) must really be unlucky with the "investigators" they employ because according to their letters over a dozen "investigations" have been open against me but I have yet to see anyone. /s

dazc 5y ago
'Wasting much of their time' though would likely result is someone justifying his/her job by going along with it. Much the same with HMRC (UK tax authority) there is no matter too trivial that they are not willing to spend limitless amounts of time and energy investigating - purely because they can.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  I believe the goons are underpaid and make the bulk of their money through commissions (which also encourages their shitty - and potentially fraudulent & unlawful behavior), thus wasting a lot of their time without taking out a license in the end will make a loss for them.

nickkell 5y ago

One friend at uni had his TV with him, but refused to pay the license fee, completely ignoring the numerous letters we all received. A couple of other friends in our halls hid it whilst he was gone for the holidays and left a fake letter informing him it had been confiscated for non-compliance. Very amusing (for everyone else) when he returned!