> I tried at 9.30, 10.00 and 10.30 am.
You're not Scottish are you? :-))
I ask because a couple of weeks back somebody with a Scottish accent left
messages at about these times on our answer machine. As it happens we were
out delivering books that particular morning, and giving up after an hour
seemed to us a bit hasty (the messages grew increasingly grumpy - it
actually ruined our day!)
Leaving a phone number would have resulted in a call back almost certainly
by lunchtime, and in the late afternoon/early evening at the latest. Most
small business people (I don't mean they are small, but their businesses are
:-) just can't be by the phone all day, and the answer machine is the only
viable alternative. Some of us also have day jobs. I daresay there are
some companies who never ring back, despite what they say, but it would be
nice to be given the chance to prove that we were not among them.
I'm not getting at you of course - I realise you're almost certainly *not*
the person who rang us, but I'm intrigued as to why people are suspicious of
answer machines - when there is really no alternative. I'd be genuinely
interested to hear what people think, so anyone with a view on the subject
can answer - privately to me if they think this is too off-topic. Which it
is :-)
Cheers, Howard.
(Kestrel Railway Books)
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