Chapter 443 I Give 5 Million
After talking to Jack Orence, the car drove into Hasbro's headquarters.
There was no bloody plot where Boss Jia was deliberately waiting for a few hours but not meeting. Boss Jia only waited in the conference room for 5 minutes, and Hasbro's negotiating team had already appeared.
This time, the level was quite high. He was led by Hasbro's vice president and brought over a dozen negotiators. Boss Jia was alone behind him, except for two bodyguards, and he looked a little pitiful.
"Mr. Jia is coming so fast. We thought you would have to wait a few more days before you came here. We did not make a careful reception for a while. Please forgive me!" Hasbro's vice president apologized without apologetically.
"It's okay, these are all details, don't worry, let's start the negotiations directly!" Boss Jia said lightly, "The air here smells too salty and wet. I feel uncomfortable staying, let's negotiate as fast as possible!"
"Okay!" A hint of anger flashed across Hasbro's vice president's face, but it quickly covered it up, and then said, "We have prepared a cooperation agreement. If Mr. Jia has no objection, let's follow this cooperation agreement!"
After saying that, Hasbro's vice president handed the agreement to Jia Yapeng. Boss Jia only looked at the first page of the agreement and his mouth curled up.
This agreement has more than 20 pages, but it is actually very simple to summarize. That is, Daqian will permanently sell all the global toy copyrights of Pokemon to Hasbro, and Hasbro will pay $5 million in one lump sum as Pokemon's copyright fee.
"A very good agreement!" Boss Jia nodded after reading the agreement, "But there are some areas of this agreement that need to be changed!"
"Please say it!"
"First of all, lifelong copyrights around the world are impossible!" Boss Jia shook his head and said, "I can only sign a licensed copyright with you for two years, and only the toy copyrights 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 copyrights and other things is not a good plan. We can have other cooperation plans!" Boss Jia smiled and said, "Why don't we try to cooperate in business?"
"How to cooperate?" asked Hasbro vice president.
"Simple, my copyright is authorized to Hasbro Company for use. 30% of all the net profits sold by Hasbro Company toys belong to our Daqian Group!" said Boss Jia.
"This method is absolutely impossible. Hasbro has never had such a cooperation method. We can talk about the copyright buyout fee and conditions, but the cooperation and sharing method is absolutely impossible!" The vice president of Hasbro did not tell any lies, because Hasbro has never had a management method of copyright cooperation and sharing.
All the famous IP toys under Hasbro have basically bought out the copyright to sell, and they have never been shared with the copyright owner, because this is Hasbro's business philosophy, that is, no matter how much money it costs to buy it, the control of all toys must be firmly in their hands, and no other company is allowed to intervene.
So even for top IPs like Star Wars back then, Hasbro never considered the way to share the cooperation, but directly spent $1.2 billion to buy the copyright of the entire series.
"Mr. Jia, we can give up the copyright of toys in the Asia-Pacific region, but the copyright of toys in other regions must be in the hands of our Hasbro.
In addition, we will never accept copyright authorization for a short period of time. It must be exclusive copyright authorization for life. If you think the price is low, you can still open it again, but we will not accept it in other ways! "Hasbro Vice President said.
Hasbro seems to have given up a lot of conditions, but Hasbro has never had much sales in the Asia-Pacific region. In the past 10 years, the total revenue in the Asia-Pacific region has not exceeded US$100 million, so Hasbro simply gave up the Asia-Pacific region. Anyway, this is not their chassis.
But Hasbro will never give in to other conditions.
"If you have to buy out exclusively, and if it's a lifetime copyright, then $5 million is really too little, it's impossible!"
"This money is a lot," Hasbro's vice president laughed and said, "5 million US dollars, equivalent to your 30 million RMB, this is a huge sum of money."
"..." Hearing the word "huge money", Boss Jia couldn't help laughing, and covered his stomach and received "I haven't heard such an interesting joke in a long time!"
"Kase, tell this vice president, how much is the cost of hiring you to protect me in one day!" Boss Jia said to the bodyguard captain behind him.
"Yes, sir!" The bodyguard captain nodded, then raised his head and said to the vice president, "Mr. Jia's maintenance fee in our company is 10,000 US dollars a day. So far, we have protected Mr. Jia for 23 days, and Mr. Jia has spent a total of 300,000 US dollars!"
"To be honest, if I stay in the United States for a year, the 5 million US dollars will not be enough to pay me security fees. Mr. Vice President, I am here to negotiate with you, and I am here to play with you. If you have this attitude, there is no need for us to continue talking!" Boss Jia said lightly.
The vice president did not expect that this Chinese man had reached such a level of tycoon, and he was willing to spend $10,000 a day to hire a bodyguard. This is the preservation fund that Hasbro's chairman is reluctant to spend.
What's even more embarrassing is that the vice president's monthly salary is not 10,000 US dollars. Of course, if all kinds of other additional subsidies are included, the annual salary is still 300,000 US dollars in the year, but his monthly salary is definitely not 10,000 US dollars.
"Okay, we can discuss this price again!" The vice president said with a somewhat awkward expression. He is the newly appointed vice president. The most urgent thing now is to achieve some results in his position and gain the trust of shareholders.
And if the copyright of Pokemon can be acquired 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 a Huaxia company, a company from such a poor country, he might not understand the truth and did not know how much money the game copyright could make. He was stunned when he heard $5 million and sold the copyright directly.
After all, the copyright of Transformers back then was bought for less than 500,000 US dollars, while Transformers made a profit of 20 to 30 billion US dollars. The vice president thinks that such rich Fusang people will make mistakes. This Chinese who has never seen the world may make the same mistakes.
It seems that this Chinese is still aware of the goods, so the vice president pondered and said, "Then it's 10 million US dollars! This price has doubled directly, it's sincere enough!"
"Too little!" Boss Jia said simply.
"Then it's 12 million US dollars, Mr. Jia, this is our greatest sincerity! No other American company can give you this price!" The vice president was also a little angry.
"Then let's go. If this is all sincerity, then in Hasbro's eyes, I probably can't even be considered a human! After all, you don't have to be sincere to others!" Boss Jia said with a smile.
"This is really our greatest sincerity!" the vice president said sincerely.
"Then we can compare the calculations. Now Pokemon's sales across the United States have exceeded 6 million copies, which means that 6 million children have purchased Pokemon's game cards."
"In addition, the number of viewers of Pokemon animations exceeded 20 million yesterday. This result is probably only the Transformers series animations of your company can achieve this!"
"I checked your company's annual report. In 1984, Transformers brought a total of US$450 million in revenue to your company. According to incomplete statistics, in 10 years, Transformers also brought at least US$2.2 billion in revenue to your company. I think there should be at least US$1 billion in net profit. If you want to buy US$1 billion in net profit for 12 million, what are you talking about with me?" Boss Jia said lightly.
"That's Transformers. How can your Pokemon be compared with Transformers!" The vice president said angrily. "You have the most Pokemons, but they are made into some plush toys and sold to those children of a few years old to play. Older children will not be interested in Pokemon's plush toys."
"But Transformers can be made into various models that can be transformed. Such a model costs $20 a set at the cheapest price. This is to make a lot of profits. Some plush toys can only cost a few dollars at most, and they can't make anything at all!"
"Your Pokemon has a net profit of $50 million in 10 years. The price of $12 million I gave is very fair, and there is no room for retreat!" The vice president said with confidence.
Then, the vice president said a lot, all of them were reasons such as Pokemon toys that couldn't be sold for money.
"It seems that I'm really here in the wrong place!" Boss Jia stood up and sighed. He was too lazy to say another word anymore. He directly took his bodyguard who was 10,000 US dollars a day and turned around and left. He was too lazy to say more word.
"Mr. Jia, I think you need to think clearly!" The vice president did not chase him out, but said coldly behind Jia Yapeng, "If you sell it to us Hasbro, you can still get a $12 million copyright buyout fee. If you don't sell it, you will never make a penny!"
Chapter completed!