At this point audits are private situations where the program shows you their stats concerning you if they want to and you ask nicely.
They can’t really do that for everyone all the time – it’s way too time consuming.
I have asked for this maybe 3 times in 5 years. Each time all was in order.
APCW does some testing and publishes the results to members.
And most of us periodically sign up under each other’s links and test that way.
Yes, real auditing would go a long, long way to restore the trust in this industry.
I’ve been in sales for years. In the real world, this type of arrangement is unheard of and is definitely not what you would call sound business practice
It’s not. Not at all. And the breaches of contract of late are very, very worrysome. In such a fragile situation based on trust, you have to be sure that you can count on contracts being honored.