As a result, the value of this part of the stock lost has far exceeded the business revenue of the exclusive agency portal advertising given by eBay before, and if the four portals had known that this was the case, they would not have chosen to sign an exclusive advertising business agreement with eBay anyway.

This is greedy for a sesame seed, but lost a watermelon.

And now, the sesame seeds have to be returned, and if you don't get it, you have to pay a watermelon.

What's even more annoying is that there are now only three best places to navigate websites, and whoever goes down will mean that within a year, the traffic of the website will be more than 20% lower than the other three.

And a year later, who knows what the situation will be, the four major portals themselves belong to the same industry competitors, they wish that the other three would go out of business, leaving only their own dominant.

Li Zhengyi and Liu Qiandong saw this point, and the four of them could not form an offensive and defensive alliance.

On the one hand, the representatives of all parties scolded and condemned Taobao Technology's practices, and on the other hand, they secretly thought in their hearts that they must discuss with the company and strive for an opportunity to contact Taobao Technology alone.

As soon as the four people with the same purpose entered the hotel, they began to contact the company non-stop and report the situation to the company's senior management.

The senior management of all parties who received the reported information scolded in their hearts at the same time, scolding and giving instructions on the other hand, to be sure to maintain friendly contact with Taobao Technology to ensure that the company can occupy a favorable navigation position.

All this was expected by Liu Qiandong and Li Zhengyi.

When the representatives of the four companies secretly contacted them by phone, Liu Walldong all rejected them with righteous words, and even when the representatives of all parties clearly proposed that the charging standard could be raised, Liu Walldong still solemnly told them: "There are indeed only three positions, but we are not trying to let you bid for the ranking, you better discuss it yourself, negotiate it, just come over tomorrow morning to sign the contract, it is useless to say more." ”

The representatives of the four companies were messy in an instant, what did Liu Walldong do...... I did XX and set up a memorial arch.

Until the next morning, when they came to Taobao Technology, they didn't come up with a practical and effective solution.

Same meeting room.

Liu Qiandong still sat at the top and said with a smile: "Since you have arrived, it means that you all have no objections to yesterday's request. This is much easier, I immediately asked the secretary to send the contract documents, the price is the same as before, we don't cheat people, if you see no problem, just sign it. ”

It's no wonder if there's no problem, first of all, the four of them haven't discussed it at all, who is up and who is down.

The representative of Sohu.com made a final effort and said: "Mr. Liu, I don't know if you can get out of the three places you reserve?" Yesterday we took a closer look, and the three positions are Taobao Technology, Alipay Company and Zhengtu Technology, in fact, to be honest, Alipay Company does not need to occupy a position at all, because your payment tools do not need advertising. ”

Finally, the representative of Sohu did not say nonsense, Alipay does not need to occupy a display position on the navigation website, because the payment model now purely relies on word of mouth, has formed a huge scale, whether it is the Internet industry or the traditional industry, basically there is no possibility of not knowing Alipay.

Liu Walldong smiled and didn't answer.

The representatives of the four companies knew that there was no drama at a glance, and they began to discuss with each other again, but in fact, they didn't discuss anything at all, they were purely dragging out time.

Liu Qiandong waited for a while, and saw that the other party still couldn't come up with a good plan, so he said bluntly: "Otherwise, I see that it is not a way for you to drag around like this, I will give you an idea." ”

"You say. ”

The representatives of the four companies knew that the real meat show was coming, so they didn't bother to pretend.

Liu Walldong said: "In this way, the four of you will discuss it for a while and a half, so you can simply make a bidding ranking, of course, we are not engaged in bidding, that is meaningless." You all have to give a maximum price, and we'll pick the three highest bidders. However, there is one thing that needs to be explained, in the end, the cost of the three companies is based on the largest one, and we must pay attention to fairness, otherwise the three companies have high and low, but the position is the same, which is not good after all. ”

This is the way to do it.

The delegates knew it, but they were helpless.

However, they could not decide the final offer, and the time of the negotiations was postponed for another day, and it was not until the morning of the third day that the matter was completely decided.

After bidding ranking, what was finally brushed down was Sohu, which lacked financial resources, and could only be aggrievedly placed in the text display area.

After these four, some other medium-sized websites have almost no intention of negotiating with Taobao Technology, such as Maopu, Under the Banyan Tree, Tianya, etc., their idea is very simple, since they signed a contract with eBay to make a profit, and hao123's traffic is not absolutely irreplaceable for them, so it seems dispensable, and naturally there is no need to negotiate.

As for other smaller websites or well-known personal sites, the idea is even simpler, they just have one idea, you hao123 love to push or not, we don't rely on your little traffic to eat.

Liu Qiandong told Li Zhengyi about these things one by one, Li Zhengyi laughed, and then told Liu Qiandong that since they are unwilling, of course we can't force it, and of course it doesn't seem appropriate not to include it, so let's send it directly to an inconspicuous position, and try to put the same type, that is, their competitors in the most conspicuous place, and create one or two troubles for them.

In terms of eBay, Taobao Technology's competition with the other party has been put on the bright side, if the previous competition still maintains a gentlemanly demeanor, then now for both sides, it is the time when the bayonet is red, and the skin has been torn.

After all, the fake goods scandal did not last long, and eBay's official public relations department was not a vegetarian, although it was very busy, it finally found a plan to deal with it and did not let the situation continue to deteriorate.

But the impact of the fake scandal is not so easy to eliminate after all, and for a long time to come, the eBay PR team will have to persevere to eliminate the subsequent impact of this turmoil.

Because of this incident, the concept of the water army began to enter the public eye, and because of the intervention of the media, the role of the water army was further exaggerated.

Li Zhengyi knew that in the future, it is estimated that the naval alliance will no longer be as careless as it is now, and it must be changed, otherwise it will be easy for the relevant departments to target.

So afterwards, Li Zhengyi called Luo Wei and asked him to warn his subordinates not to act excessively and try to maintain the bottom line of operation.