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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J
So telling the TVL that you don't need a licence would put a stop to the threatening letters and the enforcement officers knocking at the door? Nah...
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"Nah" is correct, for the reasons above. They get commission, so they want to sell you a licence. Add to that the fact that many - probably most - people who say they don't need one are lying, and the mail-bomb/doorstep strategy isn't so unreasonable. Highly annoying for all those honest people who don't watch any live TV at all and so don't need a licence, but hey, what can you do with all the lying chavs who say they don't need one when they do. They're ruining it for everyone else.
On their website they say you can write to them to declare you don't need a licence and they might make a quick visit "just to confirm" - I'd be curious to hear if anyone has gone down that route and got TVL to agree in writing that they don't need a licence.