Using merchant site's images on affiliates site

I want to start shopping site on which I am going to compare shopping data from some popular shopping site can I use images of site for which I am promoting them as an affiliate & also can I use it as common representative of particular category?
Can I use merchant site's images on my site for common representative of particular category?
for example, If I want to put the marchant's image of wii fit to represent video games category with then can I use it?
can I use merchant logo on my site?
Please help

 

Well, most affiliate programs or networks give you image links of the merchant that are hosted on there servers, so I would say that should be no problem, but if you were to go straight to the merchants site and do the firefox drag and drop thing to get there image URL and put it on your site, I'm pretty sure that would be bandwidth hogging

Hope this helps

 

wouldnt take it off the merchants website....hotlinking is looked down upon, take it from the affiliates site instead

 

Thanks for your help guys

 

unless the merchant expressly states they don't want you doing it, it should be fine.

 

you shouldnt have a problem doing this. Its pretty standard practice.