Were you born to annoy people?

I don’t call and it’s not for the reason you suggest, but because I won’t talk to an automaton once then endure multiple calls and emails trying to sell me their offering. I’ve been down that road enough times and sales people usually go to spam.

For your information, the hidden price is often times in line with the market. They hide it so they can do market segmentation without changing the product and to gather information about potential customers.

So thank you for your most useful recommendation which changes nothing for me. I follow it for reasons other than your ill-informed assumptions.