> I got a letter about a month later saying they had no record of my holding > a TV license at my office address and asking me to either buy one or > explain why not? I ignored it, they wrote to me again about 3 months later > with slightly more threatening language and I ignored that as well. I've > heard nothing more from them.
I had a rather different experience. I bought a digital decoder. I gave my name & address as I'm obliged to. They sent me a letter telling me I need a licence - even though there was already a licence for the property. A couple of weeks later, I've got some bloke on the phone telling me I need to buy a licence - to which I replied that I don't. He got ever more irate, so I just kept telling him that his database was borked, and I had all the licences I needed. Eventually, he yelled that he was "just trying to do me a favour", and slammed the phone down. A few days later, there's a knock at the door, and a TV licence inspector is there, telling me all about how I didn't have a licence, and was therefore likely to be fined a grand. So I told him I had all the licences I needed. He rang his office - who confirmed that, yes, there was a licence in force, and I did have all the licences I needed. Another great use for the licence fee that day... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
