Back in January, I introduced the “Muppet of the Week” award. Rather surprisingly, given that I do like to have a good old moan on these blog pages, there’s only been four winners of said “weekly” award in the last five months – Stan James, Cleverat, Ladbrokes and iLevel. Well, I’m “pleased” to announce the fifth winner of the prestigious Lammo Muppet of the Week award is…

Well, it’s actually a repeat offender – you may recall that the second winners of the MOTW award were Cleverat who signed me up to two programs without asking me, and then pestered me on a daily basis asking why I wasn’t pushing them.. Well it all went quiet after my last blog post, until last Thursday afternoon, when I received the following vopicemail message: (I’ve tried to copy it word for word)

Hi John it’s xxxxxx from Cleverat.. Just giving you a call regarding you running a couple of our campaigns, namely [mumbled] and [mumbled]. I’m just ringing up to see what the hold up is, or why there was a hold up or whatever. Anyway, what I will do is in the meantime what I’ll do is fire you over an email with the [muffled sound] and also the contracts for you to sign and return to me right away, so that you can start getting some mailings out and making some sales and we can both make loads of money. If you want to.. erm… Please call me on xxxxx thanks

Once again Cleverat, can I make something very clear – WHEN I WANT TO WORK WITH A PROGRAM, I WILL APPLY TO IT – PLEASE DON’T SIGN ME UP AUTOMATICALLY AND THEN LEAVE ME PUSHY VOICEMAIL MESSAGES. It just makes me not want to work with you.

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