You know why they dial up and hang-up before they talk to people? they are telemarketers paid by a publishing company to solicit subscribers for there technical or whatever magazine they have which are paid by advertisers. So, the telemarketer is trying to show they contacted umpteen customers so they can be paid accordingly by the publisher without putting the effort into it!
Well, no such luck. They called again today. This time I called them back, and was able to leave a voicemail (!) with the numbers that I don't want them to call. We shall see, part 2.
Called from this number today, when I answered it was silent. I stayed on the line until they hung up about 20 seconds later. Came to 800notes, as i always do when i get strange phone calls.
FYI... When you get these kinds of calls its best not to hang up, just put the phone on mute and let them hang up on you. Sometimes its machines calling you to see if they get a hang up indicating its a human on the other line. they'll eventually hangup making a note that THEY had to terminate the connection and not to try you again since there's no human on the line. If you get a telemarketer in person just act crazy, and they usually don't call you again EVER. Really this works... my personal favorite is pretending to sound interested but meowing and trying to carry a conversation on with meows, or the sounds that adults make on the old charlie brown cartoons. One time someone called asking if i had money to invest. To which i relplied... "Why yes, about a couple billion in gold bouillon as a matter of fact!".