Chapter 443: I'll Give 5 Million

After talking to Jack Orens, the car was already driving into Hasbro's head office.

There is no bloody plot that deliberately makes Boss Jia wait for a few hours to not meet, Boss Jia only waited for 5 minutes in the conference room, and Hasbro's negotiation team has already appeared.

This time, the level is quite high, led by the vice president of Hasbro, with more than a dozen negotiators, and Boss Jia is lonely, except for two bodyguards, there is no one, which looks a little pitiful.

"Mr. Jia came so fast, we thought you would have to wait a few more days before you came, and we didn't make a thorough reception for a while, please forgive Mr. Jia!" Hasbro's vice president apologized unapologetically.

"It's okay, these are all details, don't care, let's start negotiating directly!" Boss Jia said lightly, "The air here smells too salty and wet, I'm not comfortable staying, let's negotiate as quickly as possible!" ”

"Good!" A hint of anger flashed on the face of the vice president of Hasbro, but he quickly covered it up, and then said, "We have prepared a cooperation agreement, if Mr. Jia has no opinions, let's go according to this cooperation agreement!" ”

After speaking, the vice president of Hasbro handed the agreement to Jia Yapeng, and Boss Jia only looked at the first page of the agreement, and his mouth turned up.

The agreement is more than 20 pages long, but it can be summed up very simply, that is, Daqian will sell all the global toy rights of Pokemon to Hasbro in perpetuity, and Hasbro will pay a one-time payment of $5 million for the rights to Pokemon.

"A very good deal!" After reading the agreement, Boss Jia nodded and said, "However, there are some things in this agreement that need to be changed!" ”

"Please!"

"First of all, global lifetime copyright is impossible!" Boss Jia shook his head and said, "I can only sign a two-year license with you, and only the toy copyright in the North American and European markets." ”

"Mr. Jia, are you kidding?" Hasbro's vice president stared at Jia Yapeng with wide eyes.

"So, buying out the copyright or something is not a good plan, and we can have other cooperation plans!" Boss Jia smiled slightly, "Why don't we try to cooperate in business?" ”

"What's a partnership?" Hasbro's vice president asked.

"Simple, my copyright is licensed to Hasbro, and 30% of all the net profits from Hasbro's toy sales go to our Daqian Group!" Boss Jia said.

"This way is impossible, we have never had such a way of cooperation, we can talk about the cost and conditions of the copyright buyout, but the way of cooperation is absolutely impossible!" The vice president of Hasbro is not lying, because Hasbro has never been a copyright partnership to operate.

All of Hasbro's famous IP toys are basically sold through the copyright, and there has never been a matter of cooperation with the copyright owner, because this is Hasbro's business philosophy all along, that is, no matter how much money is spent to buy it, the control of all toys must be firmly in the hands of the hands, and no other companies are allowed to interfere.

So even if it was a top IP like Star Wars back then, Hasbro never considered the way of cooperation and sharing, but directly spent $1.2 billion to buy the copyright of the entire series.

"Mr. Jia, we can give up the toy copyright in the Asia-Pacific region, but the toy copyright in other regions must be in the hands of Hasbro.

In addition, we will never accept the copyright authorization in a short period of time, it must be a lifetime copyright exclusive authorization, if you think the price is low, you can open it again, but we do not accept other ways! Hasbro's vice president said.

Hasbro may sound like the conditions have given way a lot, but Hasbro has never had any sales in the Asia-Pacific region, and the total revenue in the Asia-Pacific region in the past 10 years has not exceeded $100 million, so Hasbro simply gave up on the Asia-Pacific region, which is not their chassis anyway.

But other conditions, Hasbro will never back down.

"If you have to buy it out exclusively, and it's a lifetime copyright, then $5 million is too little, impossible!"

"That's a lot of money," Hasbro's vice president laughed, "$5 million, which is equivalent to your 30 million RMB, which is a huge amount of money."

"......" Hearing the word huge sum, Boss Jia really couldn't help laughing, holding his stomach and receiving "I haven't heard such a funny joke for a long time!" ”

"Case, tell this vice president, how much it will cost me to hire you to protect me for a day!" Boss Jia said to the bodyguard captain behind him.

"Yes, sir!" The captain of the bodyguard nodded, and then raised his head and said to the vice president, "Mr. Jia's security fee in our company is 10,000 US dollars per day, and so far, we have protected Mr. Jia for 23 days, and Mr. Jia has spent a total of 300,000 US dollars!" ”

"To be reasonable, if I stay in the United States for a year, the $5 million will not be enough to pay me for security, Mr. Vice President, I am here to negotiate with you, I am here to play with you. If that's your attitude, there's no need for us to talk about it anymore! Boss Jia said lightly.

The vice president didn't expect that this Chinese man would be so tyrant that he was willing to spend $10,000 a day to hire bodyguards, which is a preservation fund that the chairman of Hasbro is reluctant to spend.

What's even more embarrassing is that the vice president's salary is not $10,000 a month, of course, if you count all kinds of other additional subsidies, the annual salary is still $300,000 a year, but the monthly salary that belongs to him is definitely not $10,000.

"Okay, we can negotiate the price again!" The vice president said with an embarrassed expression, he is a newly appointed vice president, and the most urgent thing now is to make some achievements in his post and gain the trust of shareholders.

And if you can acquire the copyright of Pokemon at a low price, it will naturally be the best performance.

So even though the vice president knew that the price of $5 million was too low, he felt that since the other party was Huaxia Company, a company from such a poor country, it was very likely that he didn't understand the reason, and he didn't know how much money the game copyright could make, so he was dizzy when he heard the $5 million, and sold the copyright directly.

After all, the copyright of the Transformers back then was bought for less than $500,000, and the Transformers made a profit of two or three billion US dollars.

It seems that this Chinese man is still knowledgeable, so the vice president muttered and said, "Then 10 million US dollars!" This price has directly doubled, enough sincerity! ”

"Too little!" Boss Jia said simply.

"That's $12 million, Mr. Jia, this is the greatest sincerity of our Hasbro! There is absolutely no other company in the United States that can give you this price! The vice president was also a little annoyed.

"Then let's go, if this is all sincerity, then in the eyes of Hasbro, I don't think it's even a human being! After all, you don't have to be honest with people! Boss Jia said with a smile.

"This is really our greatest sincerity!" The vice president said sincerely.

"Then we can do the math, now the sales of Pokemon in the United States have exceeded 6 million copies, which means that 6 million children have bought Pokemon game cards."

"In addition, the number of Pokemon animation viewers also exceeded the level of 20 million yesterday, and this achievement is probably only achieved by your company's Transformers series of animations!"

"I checked your company's annual report, in 1984, Transformers brought a total of $450 million in revenue to your company, and according to incomplete statistics, in 10 years, Transformers brought at least $2.2 billion in revenue to your company. I think there should be at least $1 billion in net profits, and $12 million is a net profit of $1 billion. Boss Jia said lightly.

"That's Transformers, your Pokemon, how can it be compared to Transformers!" The vice president said embarrassedly, "You Pokemon have the most, but you can just make some plush toys and sell them to those children who are a few years old to play, and older children will not be interested in Pokemon plush toys." ”

"But Transformers can be made into all kinds of models that can be transformed, and the cheapest model for such a model is $20 a set, which is to make a lot of profits, and some plush toys are only a few dollars at most, and they can't make anything at all!"

"Your Pokemon, a net profit of $50 million in 10 years is already sky-high, and the price I gave of 12 million is very fair, and there is no room for retreat!" The vice president said conclusively.

Then, the vice president said a lot, all of which were reasons why Pokemon's toys couldn't be sold for money.

"Looks like I'm really in the wrong place!" Boss Jia stood up, sighed, and didn't bother to say a word anymore, he just turned around and left with his bodyguard who was $10,000 a day, and he didn't bother to say a word.

"Mr. Jia, I think you need to think it through!" The vice president didn't chase it out, but said coldly behind Jia Yapeng, "You sell us Hasbro, and you can get $12 million in copyright buyout fees, if you don't sell, you can't make a penny!" ”

"Put x you x x stinky fart!" Boss Jia scolded directly in Chinese, and the vice president showed a question on his face, what is this guy talking about? I guess I regret it!