I agree promoting a product you have not even seen is not a good idea.

From the merchants point of view however it is understandable that product owners don't want to give free copies to every affiliate marketer and their dog...so to speak.

How would a merchant know that the affiliate
- has a list that really matches the size the affiliate says it has? It's easy to say 'hey, I have 200 thousand people on my list'
- will follow through with his promotion?
(see Mike's rant http://www.jvnotifypro.com/community...pic,353.0.html)

Ralf