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He appears to have made zero sales. By most metrics, this is not a "better sales page".

The cost of hosting someone for a year is pretty high.

If you become a yacht salesman, are you expected to sell one on the first day? Are you a failure because someone else sold a hundred hot dogs?

I wouldn't be a failure, but I certainly wouldn't be claiming (as the original submission title did, now thankfully fixed by the mods) that I was a better yacht salesman than you if I had never even sold a yacht.

I always thought that one of the hardest thing to sell must be fighter airplanes. A (normal) country only buys new ones maybe once every 25-30 years. It is a long selling process!

You do not yet understand the role of bribery and corruption in the sale of fighter planes.

He is the product, so he only needs to make one sale to succeed. Quantity of sales is a poor metric for high-priced goods.

For example, a Walmart needs to turnover the equivalent its entire inventory every week to be profitable; a Lamborghini dealership or Saks can be profitable selling one item a month.

See my response above. This was originally submitted with a title similar to "This 16 year-old from Eastern Europe has a better sales page than you".

I was responding to this title by pointing out that this is not obviously or demonstrably true, and also arguably untrue.

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