Affiliate Program - An Unexpected Result

Ok, so I have already got an Amazon Associates account and have now been looking at other more niche specific ones as per Course 3, Lesson 3. I did sign up for one and they requested a small fee, to which I paid as I know this is quite common.
The next day I received an email from them asking for some more information as to how I would promote their retailers; how I would drive traffic and the advertisers I intended to promote.
I responded thinking, after having read that many people do not get accepted the first time, that I would lose my fee and have to reapply. I wrote to them with an open and honest response stating that I would not be creating any content that was plagiarised or use spammy techniques and that my site was in its infancy, as no doubt many of yours probably are. I also stated that I would be adding reviews in a month or so as my content increased and this is when I would be looking at driving the traffic through the methods I will learn on WA (I didn't mention WA - they might frown upon this, I wasn't sure).
My response was to be completely transparent in my goals and my methods and I thought I would be tossed onto the heap of rejections - I was wrong.
I received a very personal email from one of their team and they offered to put my account on hold until I had developed more content and started to rank better. I wrote back thanking them and they responded once again stating that my account was on hold until such time as I wanted them to reassess it.
I was most pleasantly surprised. It pays to be honest - Martyn