Yeah I don't really expect to see an affiliate sign up and be promoting 5 minutes later. I completely understand about activating an account and getting to it later, sometimes much later. I'm certainly guilty of that.

But there are those that have been signed up for months and in some cases even years, that you never hear from.Yet they have active sites and they were't signing up to check it out as its all right there in the open, no sign up necessary to check it out.

I guess that one wasn't really my biggest peeve. But rather the second one about providing promo tools specifically at the request of certain affiliates. Then you provide them and you never hear from them... Really makes you wonder sometimes, why even bother?

It's certainly true that most affiliate traffic & sales comes from a very small number of affiliates. I have over a thousand affiliates registered and I can count on one, maybe two hands the ones that actually generate a fair amount of sales. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate each and every affiliate that sends me any traffic at all, I just have a hard time understanding why some just don't bother.