? to LL Owners who have partner accts

[fetish1]

I submitted requests for 2 partner accts in the past few weeks. They both sent back rejections stating that the sites looked good but their recips were not on the pages. Is that common practice to expect me to put you on one of my previously submitted sites (that I am sending you as samples of my work) before you accept me as a partner?

I realize that you always run the risk of putting up a recip and not being listed, BUT if you read the rules it's next to impossible NOT to be listed. When applying for a partner acct, it would seem that you want to see my sites, to decide if you want them, and I am applying to see if this is a link list that I can start submitting at so I didn't really understand expecting links up to a site that I haven't subbed to before.

I may very well be missing the REAL obvious here...so if I am please let me know so that it makes a little more sense!

TIA!