Can you trust affiliates?

Do they track links fairly

[garrybetting]

hello,
does everyone think that affiliates (especially smaller specific companies) fairly show results?
Is there any governing rules or ways to check?
Do you always get the payment for refering a customer everytime?

[onlineleben]

Can you trust affiliates?

better ask if you can trust merchants.

Do you always get the payment for refering a customer everytime?

yes, but check out the merchant before you refer traffic to them.

[nomis5]

Some general affiliates I trust, well two to be exact. Some I don't trust, well that's the two others I have used in my career.

As far as single company affilate schemes, two I trust implicitly, one other I trust but the staff are so lazy that I gave up with them.

[eljefe3]

Any good affiliate program is in it for the longhaul. Why screw affiliates and give yourself a bad name and lose all of your affiliates? it makes no business sense, but I am sure there probably are some out there that can't think long term.

[piatkow]

Problems that I have found seem to be down to poor software rather than anything else.

I have never had any problems with amazon apart from the fact that most people these days just type in the url for themselves.

[garrybetting]

Thanks for the answers.
I had a ringtone affiliate but I didn't think they gave me credit for the links as the link from my site went to a further 2 or 3 sites and they seemed to discount my initial link.
They also had a very short time on the link that expired and left me with no payment even though people were paying for ringtones direct to their mobiles.
I agree that the big companies work but there are so many little companies who seem to missuse the fairplay rules and make reasons to discount your initial link.