they probably feared that you may directly skip to the employer and they won't get paid for that. Lots of recruiter I met are kind of these people, talking to

they probably feared that you may directly skip to the employer and they won't get paid for that. Lots of recruiter I met are kind of these people, talking to them are pretty much waste of time. The best approach is to talk to them just by phone in a very short time, which won't cost too much if you eventually found it's waste of time.