Comments on: TV Licensing Ineptitude

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:57:15 +0000

Ah, that’s interesting. I was always told that they HAD to ask for the address it was being used at, seperately. You might want to look into that, because they MIGHT be violating your something-or-other by passing those details without asking.

By: Rob Fisher

Rob Fisher — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:58:37 +0000

Jonathan: they got my details from the delivery address. If I’d bought from a bricks and mortar store no doubt I’d have used the home address of someone high up in the BBC.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:14:19 +0000

Not wishing to state the obvious, but why did you give them your details for the licence question when you brought the equipment? You already have a licence.
I always give 1 Privacy Street, Gipping, IP6 1AA

End of problem.

By: cerebros

cerebros — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:04:17 +0000

I had this a couple of years back – I’m the only one in the household who actually buys anything TV related, but the licence is in Helen’s name.

What I got told is that their database doesn’t identify whether a particular address is a house or flats (i.e. a normal house that’s been split into upstairs and downstairs flats, not a block of flats) or whatever, so their database flags up a possible lack of licence if the names don’t match.

Given that more and more people are co-habiting these days you would have thought they’d have come up with some better method but evidently not