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Offline Bedsit Bob

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What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« on: September 02, 2010, 08:55:00 PM »
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Quote from: Guardian
"The main findings of this review are that TV Licensing needs to improve the tone of its early dealings with the public, especially households that do not have TV sets."

Why the hell would TVL be contacting households (with or without an "improved tone"), that do not have a TV????
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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 09:20:51 PM »
So that they can intimidate them into buying a license - even if they dont need one
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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2010, 09:46:04 PM »
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So that they can intimidate them into buying a license - even if they dont need one

Surely not?  :rolleyes:   :D 
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“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement"

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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2010, 09:56:00 PM »
there is a documented case of an individual buying 2 licenses for the same address in order to be left alone - never mind one

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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2010, 10:01:43 PM »
I was joking.  :D 
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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 11:21:53 PM »
I don't see any evidence that TVL have improved the tone of the letters in the last 17 months.
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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2010, 11:44:46 PM »
The problem with this 'review' is that the BBC Trust has conducted it. It's a bit like the rediculous scenario where the Police Complaints Commission investigate the Police... they are one and the same... and so are the BBC and the BBC Trust. It's impossible to have impartiality and independence on any matter.


'BBC Trust'... what an oxymoron  :rolleyes:
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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2010, 02:37:17 AM »
TV licensing behave as though everyone has a tv and therefore requires a licence. They know as well as we do that this is not the case; however TVL have a remit to sell as many licences as possible and boy, do we know it.
 
The fact that owning a television isn't and has never been a licensing requirement is largely lost on the public and, I reckon, not a few magistrates too and is testament to the power of non-stop pushy marketing coupled with lifelong badgering and harassing by the world's best in the art - The BBC and its trademarked sidekick, Television Licensing.
 
Threatening language and behaviour, implied physical threats and a few lies tossed in here and there are TVL's stock-in-trade marketing methods for which they are famed.
They want to do business with you whether you want to do business with them or not. :angry:
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There are only two reasons you need a tv licence in the UK; just having in your possession or owning any kind of equipment whatsoever (including any type of television, radio, computer, screen or aerial) or listening to any radio station are not those reasons.

"Television Licensing": tradenamed marketing and sales group of the outsourced BBC Revenue's "SHIT" (Sales, Harassment, Intimidation and Threats) Service.

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Re: What business do TVL have with households that do not have TV sets?
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2010, 07:46:02 AM »
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Why the hell would TVL be contacting households (with or without an "improved tone"), that do not have a TV????

Apart from the potential to get more money for the BBC protection racket, it creates a Big Brother database of conformist households and non-conformist households. Those Marxists don't like people to stray from the good citizen socialist path of absorbing BBC propaganda. If you don't have a TV and are not watching "dumbed down" TV programmes, then why not? They want to know about you.

Some time back, I read that the BBC had commissioned a university lecturer to define social categories for TV licence evaders. He came up with 7 categories. The question is, why should money be spent on doing this? Why should the BBC have personal data on people that aren't its customers?
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