Well, it depends on the local market for your skills, but recruiters are competing with each other to make a sale to their client i.e. the employer who may be advertising the same job via several recruitment agencies, so if they don't think they can sell you, they're not interested in you any more.
But you can sometimes improve the way you work with recruiters by developing an understanding of which ones seem to have the most interesting jobs in your target market, and which ones seem to have a better understanding of what it is you can offer a client. Once you've identified a few who regularly have interesting jobs on offer, call them up and talk to them about your skills/experience and the kind of work you're looking for. Listen out for indications that they have some understanding of what you do for a living - if they don't know there's a difference between
Java and JavaScript, then you can probably terminate the interview! This may also help you to get a better sense of what the recruiter is looking for to make it easier for them to sell you as a potential candidate. They may not have any suitable jobs right now, but smarter recruiters keep a list of good potential candidates because it can give them a head start when a client calls up and says they're looking for somebody just like you.
I was a freelance developer for 20 years, so I worked with a lot of recruitment agents. Some of them were just traders, who simply played buzzword bingo and had probably been selling double-glazing or insurance the week before. Most were OK, provided you remember to look at things from their perspective sometimes and you don't have any illusions about who they're really working for (not you!). And some were really good, with a decent understanding of their market within the industry and of the candidates they were trying to sell into that market.
So if you think you may need to use recruitment agencies to get access to jobs in your target market, it's worth putting some time into researching them first. The same job will often be advertised via several recruiters, so knowing which one to pick may improve your chances of getting the job.