On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 07:45:39AM -0500, Andy Random wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote:
>
> > It's also true that TV retailers are obliged to inform licensing of
> > every TV device purchased and your address as are subscription TV
> > providers.
>
> It is though sometimes the retailers get it wrong.
>
> Last year I bought a Freeview receiver online and had it delivered to my
> work address, apparently the retailer then passed that address on to the
> nice licensing people...
>
> I got a letter about a month later saying they had no record of my holding
> a TV license at my office address and asking me to either buy one or
> explain why not? I ignored it, they wrote to me again about 3 months later
> with slightly more threatening language and I ignored that as well. I've
> heard nothing more from them.
Ditto, except Amazon didn't pass my address on, it was whoever
they bought the unit from that did and as they had no record of me
on their system - it all got very messy. I on;y bought the unit
for my father, so in anyone who buys and delivers to work or buys
as a gift gets a silly threatening letter.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas
are not only ill prepared for making discoveries, they
also make poor observations.
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