tv licence

bungaro

hi,
just wondering if anyone else found themselves in this situation before. moved into new house with the missus last year and got a tv licence at the 30th of october. when we got the licence in the post it said that the licence was only valid till the 30th of sept, so basically we only got 11 months out of it instead of the 12 i had automatically assumed! according to whoever i emailed in an post enquiring they said that basically you should get the licence at the start of the month as they don't go by the date when you get it but rather by the month. now we're after getting a renewal letter for the 30th of sep which under their rules means that if i renew by then i will lose out on another full month and renew on the 30th of august 2010! i got onto the ombudsman about this last year and basically they were useless. €160 for a licence for the year is ridiculous anyway but to have this con going is bull**** of the highest order.

Mmcd

Just get a video of fish floating around.........problem solved!

mikemac

You bought your license in October so by October 1st next year you'll need a new licence. Now if you bought on November 1st you'd get an extra month from it

It's exactly the same with motor tax if you've ever renewed at the end of a month.

adamski8

i never understood the point in those licenses, my tv works fine without one

Max Power1

just cover the TV with a sheet and pretend its an altar at home, as you are a founder member of your own religion - Jihad Muslim Al Qaeida. He wont look twice then!

minidazzler

OP Just don't renew it until you get your full year then, the Licence inspector is unlikely to arrive in that 1 month anyway.

Ruu_Old

Put the below on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSdYZ3v_wY

markok84

minidazzler wrote: »

the Licence inspector is unlikely to arrive in that 1 month anyway.

Note: check Bungaro for up to date TV licence next month..... muw hahahaha

bungaro

do you look anything like this fella mark?! will be looking out my window before opening the door to any strangers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTF8DMVvmM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTF8DMVvmM

markok84

bungaro wrote: »

do you look anything like this fella mark?! will be looking out my window before opening the door to any strangers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTF8DMVvmM

The trick is to establish a secret knock, share this with your associates and only open the door to people that use this knock. Not only does this help in avoiding TV licence inspectors but also; court summonses, bailiffs, tax collectors, debt collectors, politicians, ex girlfriends and jehova witnesses.

TPD

You could just not let the inspector in/not answer the door to them. It's not like they have a warrant.

ScumLord

Get rid of your tv, seriously. RTE is a waste of time, Sky is even worse, I find all sky channels unwatchable when I go to friends houses. The only broadcaster worth anything is the BBC.


You have the internet just use that, you only watch stuff you want to watch and have to endure little to no advertising. TV is a dead medium now that the internets here. I'm looking forward to the day the tv license inspector turns up at my door so I can tell him I've no tv, I have a tour of the flat organised and even a little in your face dance prepared.

With something like 99% of housholds with a TV it's a pointless exercise.

Would be much simpler to just bury it in all the other taxes and let those who don't have a TV (and can prove it) have tax relief.

squod

ScumLord wrote: »

Get rid of your tv, seriously. RTE is a waste of time, Sky is even worse, I find all sky channels unwatchable when I go to friends houses. The only broadcaster worth anything is the BBC.


You have the internet just use that, you only watch stuff you want to watch and have to endure little to no advertising. TV is a dead medium now that the internets here. I'm looking forward to the day the tv license inspector turns up at my door so I can tell him I've no tv, I have a tour of the flat organised and even a little in your face dance prepared.

I've worked with loads of foreigners who don't have TVs. They don't have TVs. They just download what they want when they want to watch it.
Gonna have a go of this myself in the near future.
Or as soon as my broadband supplier (Vodafone landline) stop fukking sh1t up on me!

squod

squod wrote: »

I've worked with loads of foreigners who don't have TVs. They don't have TVs. They just download what they want when they want to watch it.
Gonna have a go of this myself in the near future.
Or as soon as my broadband supplier (Vodafone landline) stop fukking sh1t up on me!

Are you aware that there are proposals to extend the TV licence to include all multimedia devices capable of displaying a moving image (catch all).

Karoma

ScumLord wrote: »

Get rid of your tv, seriously. RTE is a waste of time, Sky is even worse, I find all sky channels unwatchable when I go to friends houses. The only broadcaster worth anything is the BBC.


You have the internet just use that, you only watch stuff you want to watch and have to endure little to no advertising. TV is a dead medium now that the internets here. I'm looking forward to the day the tv license inspector turns up at my door so I can tell him I've no tv, I have a tour of the flat organised and even a little in your face dance prepared.

The only problem is that those super cop / TV inspectors don't call out; you just get a snotty letter telling you that they did (Even though there was no slip left and one person would have been at home at the time as one was sick for the week previous...) and that they'll take you to court if you don't get one. Then, you try ringing the number on the letter and they genuinely have no concept of 'not owning a TV' and pretty much call you a liar... /wanders off twitching and throwing together an IED on top of the letter

AckwelFoley

You need a licence for a tv?! :eek:


:pac:

squod

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you aware that there are proposals to extend the TV licence to include all multimedia devices capable of displaying a moving image (catch all).

Can't see how you could implement that. An interesting point none the less.#
Won't liscencing these devices make the licensing authority complicit in any illegal offence commited by the liscencee. (illegal downloading etc).

Can't see why a bunch of civil servants would volunteer time in prison.

ScumLord

Karoma wrote: »

The only problem is that those super cop / TV inspectors don't call out; you just get a snotty letter telling you that they did (Even though there was no slip left and one person would have been at home at the time as one was sick for the week previous...) and that they'll take you to court if you don't get one. Then, you try ringing the number on the letter and they genuinely have no concept of 'not owning a TV' and pretty much call you a liar... /wanders off twitching and throwing together an IED on top of the letter

One did call to the home house while I was living there, he just gave me a note saying we had to get one.

Mmcd

ScumLord wrote: »

One did call to the home house while I was living there, he just gave me a note saying we had to get one.

A tv or a license?

snyper

snyper wrote: »

You need a licence for a tv?! :eek:


:pac:

Yes! you must also keep it on a lead when you walk it in a public place!

mikemac

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you aware that there are proposals to extend the TV licence to include all multimedia devices capable of displaying a moving image (catch all).

I pay subcription money to the NFL to watch football on my mac.
You're telling me I'll need a TV licence :eek:

Sure why not get people with mobile phones to pay for a TV licence too. After all, you can download clips to your phone these days

ScumLord

Mmcd wrote: »

A tv or a license?

A license, he could see the tv in the background which made me look stupid for saying we don't have a tv.

Firefox10

I find that people that don't pay get caught out eventually. (Including myself.) The "I don't use the T.V, I use the internet" excuse is just lame and doesn't wash.

mikemac

Over 90% of homes have a TV.
Why not just sack the inspectors, don't they work for An Post.
And take the money from general taxation

Money saved instantly!

mikemac

mikemac wrote: »

Over 90% of homes have a TV.
Why not just sack the inspectors, don't they work for An Post.
And take the money from general taxation

Money saved instantly!

Makes perfect sense, therefore it won't be done - job preservation comes first.

krudler

Have never paid for a tv licence, dont intend to either, RTE show nothing but crap or stuff thats already on other channels so they aint getting a cent off me, plus they gave both Maeve Higgins and Jason Byrne their own shows so I cant in good conscience put money towards funding these

mikemac

Do TV licence inspectors target rough areas such as Moyross in Limerick or massive flat complexes such as Ballymun in Dublin?

Somehow I doubt it.
Much easier to target the new estates when people rent or buy and are unlikely to cause trouble.

Karoma

mikemac wrote: »

Do TV licence inspectors target rough areas such as Moyross in Limerick or massive flat complexes such as Ballymun in Dublin?

Somehow I doubt it.
Much easier to target the new estates when people rent or buy and are unlikely to cause trouble.

A lot of people in those areas are getting it free anyway. They just post letters to the rest. It saves on the expense of Garda escorts.

Much the same way as you can get caught for speeding 10km over the speed limit but if you're a junkie wandering around the city centre openly buying drugs the gardai leave you alone :rolleyes:
Take a stroll along the boardwalk in Dublin to view this.......particulary on the first Tuesday of the month!

Apples and oranges. One is a person propelling a heavy chunk of metal at a speed that can (potentially) cause serious injury or death, the other is an individual with a drug addiction that may or may not be a threat to anybody but themselves. Irrelevant.

Firefox10

Well as much as I hate paying for RTE and the drivel they mostly produce, it's a public TV station and the public should have more of a say into what they want to see on it. I would sack a whole bunch of their "stars" for a start.;)

ScumLord

Firefox10 wrote: »

I find that people that don't pay get caught out eventually. (Including myself.) The "I don't use the T.V, I use the internet" excuse is just lame and doesn't wash.

Why doesn't it wash? I don't have a tv, I don't have to pay for a license for one. It's pretty straight forward.

blubloblu

I see a tv license thread every week in loads of differnt forums, isn't it time we made one for it?

ScumLord

blubloblu wrote: »

I see a tv license thread every week in loads of differnt forums, isn't it time we made one for it?

We already have one.

karlog

wrong post

Bob_Harris

Do TV inspectors ever come out to the country side?

I can't recall one ever calling in my 24 years of living in the "middle of nowhere".

kumate_champ07

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you aware that there are proposals to extend the TV licence to include all multimedia devices capable of displaying a moving image (catch all).

very hard to implement.

best solution is to get a usb tv stick, u can put it in your pocket if an inspector calls! rte is gonna switch off analog transmissions soon anyway

krudler

Its ridiculous we're expected to pay a licence anyway, RTE shows adverts so its already gaining revenue from selling the airtime for those, its a pointless tax that everyone should just refuse to pay until Maeve Higgins is forcibly removed from the television, and the country

aidan24326

ScumLord wrote: »

I'm looking forward to the day the tv license inspector turns up at my door so I can tell him I've no tv, I have a tour of the flat organised and even a little in your face dance prepared.

ScumLord wrote: »

Why doesn't it wash? I don't have a tv, I don't have to pay for a license for one. It's pretty straight forward.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a tv. As far as I know once there's an aerial on the roof or an ntl point fixed to the wall you're liable for a tv license. Crazy as it sounds I'm pretty sure that's the rule.

OP, the biggest mistake you made was getting a license in the first place.

Firefox10 wrote: »

Well as much as I hate paying for RTE and the drivel they mostly produce, it's a public TV station and the public should have more of a say into what they want to see on it. I would sack a whole bunch of their "stars" for a start.;)

The public appear to get little or no say. And many of their so-called stars are grossly overpaid for what they do and the limited talent they have. Not talking about any Tubridy in particular of course.

Bob_Harris

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Do TV inspectors ever come out to the country side?

I can't recall one ever calling in my 24 years of living in the "middle of nowhere".

I live also in the sticks, we've had one visit.

indough

mikemac wrote: »

Sure why not get people with mobile phones to pay for a TV licence too. After all, you can download clips to your phone these days

dont give them ideas now

JayeL

I have a licence, mainly because any cursory glance in our living room window will confirm the presence of a TV. I resent it though, paying Tubbs astronomical amounts when any other broadcaster would laugh at him.

Has anyone simply said to the inspector "I don't have a TV" and then when he asks to take a look, refuse access to your property. I think I remember reading (famous last words) that they have to apply for a warrant but rarely do. Surely they can't prosecute without proof that there isn't a TV on the property?

p.s. not partaking in this random Maeve Higgins-bashing, she's my weird crush, regardless of what she says in her laydeecomedy

byrneda

Hi,

Just had the inspector do a "new-estate" drive by today.

Alas, he'd just woke me up (been sick all day) and wasn't thinking straight.

When he asked if I had a tv, I blurted yes.

How do I remove myself from the system? If needs be, I'll sell my tv (as I don't connect to NTL or SKY) it is just used for watching movies, nothing else. I hate watching tv programmes and being interrupted by adverts all the time.

mukki

byrneda wrote: »

Hi,

Just had the inspector do a "new-estate" drive by today.

Alas, he'd just woke me up (been sick all day) and wasn't thinking straight.

When he asked if I had a tv, I blurted yes.

How do I remove myself from the system? If needs be, I'll sell my tv (as I don't connect to NTL or SKY) it is just used for watching movies, nothing else. I hate watching tv programmes and being interrupted by adverts all the time.

www.adverts.ie

byrneda

mukki wrote: »

www.adverts.ie

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