Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Buying a TV in the UK?

  • 10-11-2009 3:11pm
    #1
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭


    Do you have to give your home details for the TV Licence in the UK?


Comments

  • #2
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    You actually have to do it here, first time I have ever been asked.


  • #3
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Elmo wrote: »
    Do you have to give your home details for the TV Licence in the UK?

    You just give your Irish address. They only want it for TV tax Licence enforcement.

    You would find the same in France, I beleive.


  • #4
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    You just give your Irish address. They only want it for TV tax Licence enforcement.

    You would find the same in France, I beleive.

    I just never thought that such a system was here, I though we had some privacy etc even from state-bodies. I refused to sign today, I didn't see the point. I can just imagine all the dockets that An Post receive and they prob haven't ever had someone to do the data input. Seems a bit futile and wasteful.


  • #5
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    Elmo wrote: »
    I just never thought that such a system was here, I though we had some privacy etc even from state-bodies. I refused to sign today, I didn't see the point. I can just imagine all the dockets that An Post receive and they prob haven't ever had someone to do the data input. Seems a bit futile and wasteful.

    Where did it happen. Dixons ? Curry's ? If you buy a TV in the Uk then they do this. They have extended this to Ireland for no other reason than company policy.

    Privacy etc. Eh weak arguement though. This is no new thing in Ireland. Its been around since the 70s in legislation. Its just not put into practice by most retailers afaik.

    Did they still let you have the TV ?


  • #6
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Elmo wrote: »
    I just never thought that such a system was here, I though we had some privacy etc even from state-bodies. I refused to sign today, I didn't see the point. I can just imagine all the dockets that An Post receive and they prob haven't ever had someone to do the data input. Seems a bit futile and wasteful.

    Just give them someone else's address if you do not want to give your own. I do not think that anything happens to it. I doubt if an Post get the data and even if they do, I am sure you already have a licence.;)


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    egal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭egal


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    Just give them someone else's address
    That's a right neighbourly thing to do!


  • #8
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    egal wrote: »
    That's a right neighbourly thing to do!

    Not your neighbour's, someone else you do not know. Like Mick McCarthy or Brian Lenihan, Kitty O'Sea or Peig.


  • #9
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Johnny Fan, 123 Fake Street, Fake Town, Ireland.


  • #10
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    Kitty O'Sea or Peig.

    Hussy - I mean she is the real reason we have problems on this Island of ours.

    Peig she's on the Welfare.


Advertisement