Chapter 10: Competitive Auctions
He opened an MSN account and added three responsible contacts.
But what he didn't expect was that as soon as the three families came up, they all bargained with him!
What the hell is this?
Wasn't his last email reply clear enough?
One price, 1 million!
Fixed price!
Can't the three big companies understand Chinese? You still want to bargain with him?
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Don't blame him for being insidious......
Lin Yiming is also a werewolf, telling Xinglang that Somao has 1.01 million, telling Somao that Netnet has 1.02 million, and Netjan saying that Xinglang has 1.03 million!
Chop? I told you to cut it, and now it's up to you how you cut it!
His words instantly caused an uproar in the three companies!
Who does the out-of-print lady think she is? The plug-in she makes is just a graphic and text with words, which makes people feel fresh, as long as they give them a little time, they can also make an interface with similar functions! When the time comes, the out-of-print lady emoji will be worthless!
But the out-of-print lady on the other side of the Internet seemed to see through their thoughts, and continued to send paragraphs of text:
"Today, I will choose a seller among the three of you."
"Once the deal is done, I'm going to close the download channels of the other two."
"Then I will immediately go to the relevant institutions with the owner to apply for a patent, and if he does a similar function privately in the future, I will not hesitate to use legal weapons to protect my own interests!"
Patent!
I didn't expect the other party to have such a strong sense of copyright!
If it is really like what the other party said, once the patent is applied, if others want to make similar functions, they can only buy the copyright from the patentee, and at that time, the value of the emoji will be more than the 1 million that is now talked!
The Somao contact finally couldn't help but speak: "Little girl, are you too naΓ―ve?" If I contact the CEOs of Xinglang and NetJane and work together to block your plug-in, where else can you apply for a patent? At that time, the three of us will join forces again and work together to make a new version of the emoji, and I believe that the cost of this cooperative development will be much cheaper than giving you the patent fee. β
As soon as the conversation was sent, the other party replied quickly, seemingly without thinking about it for a second.
The words of the out-of-print lady are also sent to the three:
"Someone threatened me, saying that they would block my plug-in and then do their own research and development."
"Okay, it's going to take at least a week or two to develop a new interface."
"In the past two weeks, it's enough for me to find a home."
"The hottest chat room right now is Bi Chat, right?"
"Their chat rooms have already developed a voice function, and if you add memes, I'm afraid it's like a tiger with wings."
"And you, will you survive this bubble crisis?"
"Xinglang, you kicked the founder out, are the senior personnel stable now?"
"Somao, NetJane, has your stock price returned to $1?"
If the first words hit the nail on the head, then the last two sentences are stepping on their feet!
Looking at the name, I thought it was just a young girl, and a coax or scare could make her lower the selling price.
But who would have thought that she would feel the situation of the Internet so thoroughly!
Yes.
Under the bubble crisis, many websites fall every day, even if they are known as the three giants of the Internet, under the bubble crisis that swept the world, they are walking on thin ice every day!
No one knows if the website will exist when they wake up the next day......
At this time, the out-of-print lady sent another line of words:
"I'll give you an hour to think about it, and if you haven't thought about it after an hour, I'll remove all the emojis from the shelves, and contact Bichat to discuss cooperation."
As soon as these words came out, they didn't have to think about it, and hurriedly sent a new price.
And the out-of-print lady, every time she receives a new price, she will reply uniformly and show them the latest bids.
No one wants to die in this bubble crisis!
The out-of-print lady meme may not completely save this crisis, but it can definitely help them survive a period of suffering and wait for a chance to rise again!
As a result, the three of them bid wildly.
It has soared to 3 million in an hour!
In the last minute, Lin Yiming received the latest bids from three companies, Xinglang 3.05 million, NetJane 3 million, and Somao 2.9 million.
It stands to reason that he should have sold to Xinglang.
But just as he was about to issue the latest bid, he suddenly recalled World of Warcraft from those years.
Although, he plays a shaman, and when he reaches the full level of 80, he still runs behind the team in an all-warrior uniform, but that is also thanks to NetJane, who introduced such a good game to China, otherwise how could he have a chance to pit his teammates, isn't it?
So he deleted the final bid and only sent one sentence: "Congratulations to NetJane, I got the patent right to the emoji!" β
After saying that, he didn't pay attention to the other two and chatted directly with the contact person of the net.
He sent a string of bank card numbers to NetJane: "Pay a deposit of 300,000 yuan first, and I will immediately close the download channels of the other two." β
On the other side of the Internet, Ding Shi saw this sentence and was so frightened that his eyes jumped out!
300,000, that's not a small amount.
Before the thing arrives, 300,000 will be spent first, and if the other party is a liar, the 300,000 will be wasted!
So he asked the contact person to send a message: "300,000 deposits are too high!" Pay 100,000 first, okay? β
The other party replied: "No matter what transaction you do, the deposit is generally 10% of the full amount, and if I sell the patent for 3 million, I will inevitably take 300,000 as a deposit." β
There is truth to this.
The other party didn't give Ding Shi much time to hesitate, and immediately sent another sentence: "Please make a decision as soon as possible, I believe that the other party has already started to download 'Sand Sculpture 2.0' at this time, and mobilize all the technicians to decipher the plug-in before we register the patent." β
Ding Shiyi gritted his teeth: "Immediately notify the finance and send 300,000 yuan to this account!" β
He also understands the urine nature of Internet people - the matter of code, can it be called copying?
If you can't get the patent right for the emoji, you will definitely start to decipher the emoji plug-in now, and then take it for yourself, and it will be useless for him to apply for a patent wherever he goes, and he may even be beaten upside down!
Five minutes later, the money was remitted.
The other party was very neat, and immediately removed the emojis of the other two.
Even so, Ding Shi's eyelids kept jumping.
"They should download the memes, and what if they decipher your plugin before we patent it," he asked, "What should we do?" β
The other party replied: "Don't worry, I have added six layers of protection to the code, and they can't decipher it in a short period of time." β
Sixfold!
No wonder he couldn't decipher it......
Who are these people? Now generally speaking, there are one or two layers of protection on the Internet, and this out-of-print lady has taken the trouble to make six layers!
It seems that the other party has been plotting how to make money since the launch of "mediocre 1.0......
Ding Shi is now convinced.
They made an appointment to meet as soon as possible, and then went together to grab the patent registration, and the time was set for two days later.
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After all this, Lin Yiming breathed a sigh of relief.
This first pot of gold has finally arrived, and he no longer has to work hard to hack the billing system of Internet cafes.
He is not in a hurry to go to Qiantang now, after all, it is a big project of 3 million, and he has to pick up himself before he can go out to talk about business!
Before leaving the Internet cafΓ©, he registered a QQ number.
However, at the temporary instigation, he used hacking methods to quickly hack a batch of 5-digit QQ accounts and took them for himself.
Let's not talk about how much the 5-digit QQ was fired to before the rebirth, but he remembered a news: in 05, the Q number of 88888 was auctioned for a high price of 260,000.
It's all money.
While the public was still laughing at QQ as a primary school student's thing, and when the Internet was not very "safe" in this era, he hurriedly grabbed a batch first!
When QQ and MSN start a war in the future, the batch of 5-digit QQ numbers in his hand will be able to appreciate.
Subsequently, he picked a more pleasing number and added Su Chun as a friend.
"I'm Lin Yiming."
This sentence quickly passed Su Chun's verification.
Lin Yiming was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Su Chun's family was very rich, because in these days, people with computers or mobile phones are either rich or expensive!
Su Chun's screen name is "Pure White Snow", so Lin Yiming thought about it and changed his screen name to "Dark Night", the meaning is so obvious, a fool can see it, right?
Pure white snow: Are you Lin Yiming?
Dark Night: It's me.
Pure White Snow: Aren't You Ignorant of the Internet? How can there be QQ? And it's five figures!
Seeing these shocked words, Lin Yiming smiled, he knew that the 5-digit number was easy to flirt with girls!
Dark Night: The application is there, do you want it? I still have a few more 5-digit numbers here.
Pure white snow: I want it!
Dark Night: If you want, then you have to promise me one condition.
Pure white snow: what conditions?
Dark Night: Come out and go shopping with me.