I think it is a great idea to allow affiliates to see the members area of the sites they are promoting. I know back in the days when I promoted other sponsors, it was much easier to sell sites that I had been into and knew what they were offering.

I have no problems setting up access to our members area for affiliates that want to see itbefore selling. I do this one by one and cant see automating it or having a blanket policy of giving all affiliates access. But if I check them out and find they are legit promoters, it certainly helps us both.

I do get some requests from people that are obvious scammers, surfers that think they can sign up for the affiliate program and get free access so they dont have to be a member. But that is pretty easy to weed out, I qualify them and look at their sites or however they are going to promote before giving it.