Handles their own payouts vs. third party payouts such as Epoch or CCBill?

Do you prefer one type of sponsor over the other when it comes to actual payouts, third party are definately favored by myself unless they are huge sponsors such as ARS, TopBucks or Silvercash with a proven history.

Smaller and newer programs however, i tend to like going with third-party payouts because then there is no worry about whether ill actually receive payment for my traffic.

So how about you folks, do you prefer using sponsors that handle their own payouts or that use a third-party processor to handle affiliate payouts?

Regards,

Lee