BEST THE CREDIT CRUNCH AND LAUGH! A hilarious collection of emails telling stories of bizarre accidents, sent to big companies and begging for a free T-shirt. The replies are often equally wacky, and all sorts of branded freebies are sent to the author. Spence is a new comic talent in the tradition of Henry Root.

This book takes the art of acquiring the freebie to a whole new level of absurdity. Discover the art of the entertaining email each craftily designed to garner goodies for absolutely nothing. Delight in the fun of strange experiments, attacks by penguins and all manner of fishy tales, dreamt up by a zany man on the make. Enjoy the weird and wonderful replies and marvel at the goodies that arrive through the post! Whether he’s playing the system or just playing games, James Spence demonstrates his comic genius via this uniquely entertaining book.

‘The author has clearly spent years plaguing companies with his idiotic requests for freebies, could this be where the global meltdown started?’ – Paul Foot, Life President, Guild of Paul Foot Connoisseurs ‘a very amusing illustration of the lengths people will go to earn a buck’ – Nigel Williams, best-selling author, The Wimbledon Poisoner

Hi there Blockbusters, I have a sorry story to tell. It is a story of a man, his love of DVDs and pizza... I am a member of the Blockbuster DVD Rental Club. It has been a pleasure being a member so far and I really feel like 'part of the gang' . I have always received my DVDs promptly, in good condition and without the need for sadness or regret. This was also the case the other day when I ordered and received the DVD 'Jam' , a comedy show from your fine organisation. I ordered a pizza (my favourite pepperoni and prune) and fried up an egg for putting atop the pizza (my local pizza place does not make a fried egg pizza... yet). I changed into my favourite DVD-watching tee shirt (it has an owl on it) whilst watching said 'Jam' DVD. The show promptly began and I found myself at first tittering, then laughing, then guffawing at the various sketches and gags. Before I knew it, I was hooting like the very owl on my shirt!! But humour turned to tears as disaster struck midway through episode 4... During the episode, so engrossed was I in the show, that I failed to notice the fragile nature of the pizza slice in my hand until it was too late. I heard a subtle but all-too-memorable phump!- You guessed it, DVD-buddies, the pizza landed on my owl tee. It was covered in margarita sauce, pepperoni, prune, fried egg and some chilli sauce I had added to 'pep it up a bit' . I have since tried and tried to wash the offending marks out, but they've left a permanent stain. What on Earth is in that chilli sauce? Tattoos?!!