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Is this the norm for online retailers in the UK, or is it exceptional?

I'm not sure. Two other popular online retailers here, Argos and John Lewis, do not have the same notice on their website when you select a TV and view the product page. It may be a law that they don't bother mentioning but that's just a guess.

I worked at Tesco ten years ago, and whenever someone bought a TV in store, we were promoted on the checkout to enter their house number and postcode. I was told it was for TV Licensing.

There is law that TV licensing get told your address every time a TV is sold[0], which Argos etc will also do. That is entirely separate from NMPR and CheckMend, which I hadn't heard of before. So seems to be an Amazon initiative.

[0] Actually anything able to receive TV, so covered video recorders etc too. Not sure how far it has been dragged into the internet age.

I was going to say similar about the requirement to provide the purchasers name and address for TV Licensing, but I just searched for details on when it started - certainly we had to do it back in the early '80s, and discovered that it's no longer the case; "this requirement has been lifted by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill passed in 2013".

Interesting. Didn't know that had changed.

Curries registers for sure I’m also pretty sure that all the others do.

Insurance companies also require you to register any qualified property with the police if you get the contents of your home insured.

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