These guys don’t need to communicate with you over the phone.
They do it is because they believe that emails are ignored.
In a lot of companies you can get into trouble for not appearing to be busy.
A 30 minute phone call where you are frequently mentioning ‘buzz words’ can sound very impressive to the people around you.
Also they may have a senior member of staff sitting next to them asking how many phone numbers they got today and how many calls they made.
Personaly I like to communicate with affiliates over the phone but I won’t force myself onto an affiliate who doesn’t want to work this way. I completely understand and respect this.
Now if you’ll excuse me i’ve got 30 affiliates left to call before the end of the day:p