I don't think there is such a thing as good or bad traffic, nor good or bad products, it's more about finding a match between a traffic and a product.
Steve you can let affiliates take the risk, let them give a try to your products risking the few days or hours of traffic they send to test. Or you can take the risk on your side, prepaying for traffic to find a few sellers on who you're going to convert more than the average because their traffic likes your products. most long time sellers will do efforts to meet you in the middle if things go bad, but therre is no such thing as a garanty because nobody can guess which traffic is going to work on which product. I had my products do great on one site and poor on the other and I could hardly tell why.
Don't ask for guarrentee but ask to test. Stay away from sellers asking 4 figures to start and refuse to do a few hundreds bucks test. Spend a few hundreds on various sources where you get clear info about where the traffic comes from, select the ones you'd surf as a fan of your products, be ready to not break even 7 times out of ten (think as it's your research budget) and go big with the few ones were you found that good match.
As for the whales, if you feel their traffic really fit, I found that a prepaid five or six figures check on higher percentage revshare makes their heads turn.
Once again, you're either wait hopping they'll take the risk or risk your money to try to make money now. Last but not least, when an affiliate is risking his traffic on your products, he give or take hopes to make his money back with 50-60% of revshare, where on your side you can afford to go up to almost 90% given your productions costs are paid for and your bandwidth is not killing you.
my 2cc, good luck with your new girl
