Question for hosting affiliates

Hello,

I have been affiliate for different hosting companies lately, just to test the waters for the best offers.

However, things have gone out of the hand a bit. I'm not going to mention this hosting company name, but I would like to know your opinion about it.

I'm promoting hosting offers through SEO, mostly. Last month I had 112 leads for a specific hosting company, 8 of them were refunded which is pretty OK for me.

However, when I asked about the payment, affiliate manager told me this:

1) All the sales have to go through a "money-back-refund" which is xx days. - OK, got it. Completely fine with it, since most of the hosting companies DO have 30-90 days money back guaranteed

2) Almost half of the accounts haven't put any content on their sites/blogs - therefore we cannot verify and pay for them right away.


This second answer disturbs me a bit. I read through their affiliate TOS and there was nothing to be said about the content on the accounts. I made the sales, people paid upfront and I'm not getting paid for them since they haven't added any content? Isn't that a bit ridiculous?

I know that they like to get leads that stick with their host 3+ years, but I did everything according to their TOS.

Any suggestions/recommendations?

Plus, another question:

Can anyone recommend reliable hosting company that actually don't SCRUB that much? I'm looking for hosting companies that pay for their affiliates $100 - $200 per lead which is quite common for superaffiliates.