Chapter Eight Hundred and Fifty Second Filing a Lawsuit

Last night's indulgence was just a small adjustment in Eric's busy work, and he didn't mind the $1 million check he signed. After all, just like the arithmetic problem he gave Giselle, compared to the sheer wealth he now possesses, $1 million is not much different from the average person's $1.

But this check is definitely another concept for girls.

After sending Eric out of the apartment, Curse Gauff immediately turned to Giselle, looked at the check in her hand expectantly, stretched out her little hand and said, "Giselle, it's really $1 million, let me Take a look, okay?"

Giselle opened the little paw that Qusi Gauff had stretched out and said, "Of course it's true, could Eric sign a fake check to me?"

Qusi Gauff didn't dare to grab it, and followed back to the bar by the window, but still did not forget to correct Gisele: "This is for all of us."

Giselle sat down at the bar again and shook her head: "No, 800,000 of them belong to all of us, and the other 200,000 are pocket money for me and Ale, you just heard."

Qusi Gauff rolled her eyes and said tentatively, "You and Ale want to share the 800,000 with us?"

"Of course," said Giselle, "we both played games last night."

In the conversation between the two, another girl opened her eyes and sat up. When she saw the cheque in Giselle's hand, all the girls woke up one after another with excited screams, and they didn't even have time to put on their clothes. , they all gathered around the bar and surrounded Gisele in the middle to discuss.

"Wow, a million."

"Eric really redeemed the bet."

"How much can we share alone?"

"Looks like there's a shopping trip, right?"

"What about private jets?"

"Stupid, of course the private jet is at the airport, so it can't be parked in the house."

"..."

Looking at the group of chattering girls around him, Giselle suddenly remembered the last words Eric made when he left.

Since she just debuted, even with Eric's support, she can't reach the top circle in the industry at all. From a few sporadic contacts, she also realized that Cindy Crawford, Linda Nor can Ivan Greenstar's established supermodel circle accept them.

Most of the girls around her are similar in age to her, and they can also be said to be a group of potential newcomers in the industry, which is why they can play together. That being the case, why didn't she build her own circle, and, of course, she must be what Eric calls the 'big sister'. As long as Eric can always support her, her future development will definitely not be limited to just being a supermodel, then the girls around her will definitely be her help.

After a quick calculation, Giselle stretched out her hand and patted it on the bar, her eyes swept in a circle, with the usual momentum when adjusting Alexander, she raised her voice and said, "OK, shut up."

The girls paused for a moment, and as expected, they stopped talking wisely.

Giselle was very satisfied with the effect and said, "Eric has promised to fulfill the $800,000 private plane trip around the world. If everyone has no problem with their passports, we can go anywhere in the afternoon."

Gisele continued with a soft cheer: "However, you should know the rules. First of all, no one is allowed to talk about what happened last night. Otherwise, believe me, Eric is just a phone call, and the agency immediately It will terminate your contract, and your career will end here."

Although it felt that Giselle was a little bit arrogant, the girls nodded obediently.

Even if they are not very old, but they can get contracts from international model company giants such as Elite and IMG, of course, these girls can't be little chicks who don't understand anything. It won't do them any good to hear what happened last night. After all, those models in the circle who dared to jump out and expose some things have basically disappeared.

However, someone immediately objected: "Giselle, if you don't say anything, the company will not allow us to travel?"

This is indeed a problem.

Giselle pondered for a moment, and some bold thoughts came up in her heart, and said: "In this way, I will personally call and chat with the boss of the company, as long as they arrange it, even the agent who is directly responsible for us can't ask any more questions. matter."

"Giselle, bosses, will you listen to you?"

"Of course, Eric said it when he left. If they don't agree, he will ask directly."

Giselle nodded firmly, seeing that the girl beside her was still a little hesitant. She also knew that in their eyes, the top management of the brokerage company was probably the unattainable controller of the entire industry, but she was too lazy to explain.

From Eric's interest in her and Alexander, the two major brokerage companies almost took care of the two of them, and we can see how influential Eric is. Not to mention the rest, take the Victoria's Secret show, which has become a supermodel training ground, for example. Any model agency that wants to send its models to the Victoria's Secret show will inevitably have to go through Eric's hurdle.

"Giselle, I think, can I get my share of the money directly, I mean, I've been short of money recently, and I still owe the rent."

The voice of the speaking girl was a little low, with a little bit of uneasy anxiety, but it was Fernanda Tavares.

Giselle was originally very dissatisfied with her performance in attracting Eric's attention last night. He heard the words: "Of course, I will give you your share, but you can't travel around the world with us."

Fernanda Tavares felt Giselle's dissatisfaction with herself, but if she was just kicked out of the small circle, her loss would be significantly greater, so she shook her head decisively and said, "Forget it, I don't want it."

Giselle was stunned for a moment, then smiled and showed her generosity in a timely manner: "Smart choice."

The girl who had a similar thought at first heard the conversation between the two and gave up her thoughts.

More than fifty thousand dollars in cash is of course a huge sum of money for them now. If they can get it, they will definitely not spend it all in one go. But they are both young, and between money and opportunity, they certainly know what to choose.

Seeing that everyone was all right, Giselle sniffed, and in disgust, she reached out and grabbed a few notes from Fernanda's erect ****, took advantage of the situation and squeezed it, saying: "You both look and smell like a group of natives who just ran out of the Amazon jungle. Go take a shower and clean up this place."

There are always many bathrooms in Western-style apartments, and the girls finally realized their embarrassment at this time, laughed and laughed, and quickly got into different bathrooms.

After confirming her position as the head of the eldest sister, Giselle was very satisfied. She picked up the phone on the bar, found the address book, and started dialing the numbers of several brokerage bosses.

Because of the work relationship, the girls basically have multi-national passports, and they flew to Tokyo in the afternoon, which is Giselle's most wanted city.

Although compared with ordinary people, girls have much more opportunities to go abroad, but they are basically work catwalks in the fashion season. They are busy for more than ten hours a day under the arrangement of the company, and then sleep on the bed without any travel at all. This is the first time they can indulge to the fullest.

Eric also roughly understood what happened in the words that Elite CEO John Casablanca personally called, but he just laughed it off.

He originally wanted to use a week to determine the specific plans of Marvel Studios, but it turned out that a week was simply not enough, and there were too many things to discuss. Marvel Studios is related to Firefly's movie layout for at least the next twenty years, and Eric is unwilling to appear sloppy in any matter, so he stayed in New York until late April.

On the other hand, both Firefly Electronics and Amazon teams are very strong in execution. Three days after the hunger marketing plan was confirmed, the plan was officially implemented.

Due to production capacity constraints and booming sales, the price of Fireflyer players in brick-and-mortar retail stores has basically risen to $329. This is only after Firefly Electronics did not hesitate to stop supplying several retail stores with wanton price increases. the rule of. Even so, Fireflyers in brick-and-mortar retail stores are still in short supply.

In this case, Amazon launched a rush to buy 5,000 Fireflyers every three days at the original price of $299, which immediately attracted the attention of a large number of consumers.

According to Yahoo's statistics, at the beginning of 1997, the number of Internet users with online payment behavior in North America reached 5 million. Although it is still insignificant compared to the total Internet user base, this number is unmatched by all other overseas regions.

As a result, Amazon's first round of snap-ups took only two and a half hours, and 5,000 Fireflyers were snapped up.

With the help of several companies, a large number of media in North America have reported on this.

Then, the second round of snap-ups cut the time in half.

The third round became 10 minutes.

Hunger marketing is not a novel marketing method, but it is definitely the first time that it has been put on the table to form a social topic on a large scale.

With the help of this hot topic, more and more people, whether they are interested in Fireflyer or not, have inevitably noticed this epoch-making music player product, and the potential consumer groups who were still in a wait-and-see state have also into this rush to buy.

When Fireflyer's fourth round of snaps kicked off, there was only one minute left in the process. Amazon's online store page even stuttered because of the influx of customers.

The popularity of online sales has also stimulated physical sales. Although the price is 30 US dollars higher than that of the Amazon store, due to the shortage of products, most retail stores have almost just put the new Fireflyer on the shelves, and they sold out quickly without any intention. A large number of scalpers have been derived from other places.

Immediately, some media began to question that this was a joint hype by Amazon and Firefly Electronics, and the sales volume of the online store Fireflyer was far less than what was announced.

Amazon quickly clarified that, without revealing customer privacy, it directly posted the transaction records of each snap-up on the website’s homepage.

The fact that Fireflyer is always out of stock inevitably arouses some users' disgust. Firefly Electronics has spared no effort in its public relations. It not only explained the causes and consequences of Fireflyer's production capacity limitation in detail on the Yahoo portal website, but also opened a special The product homepage reports various product-related news such as the preparation progress of Fireflyer's new factory to users in real time, and conducts some interesting and rewarding interactions with fans from time to time.

Under this close and tacit cooperation, Fireflyer's brand image has become deeply rooted in consumers' hearts step by step, and Amazon has also become the biggest external beneficiary in this process. Due to the popularity of hunger marketing, Amazon's single-day traffic is short. With a 50% increase in two weeks, Jeff Bezos decisively changed his original plan and took this opportunity to start introducing more product types.

In addition to Firefly Electronics and Amazon, the online music store managed by Yahoo also achieved impressive sales results.

Since the Yahoo Music Box does not have Fireflyer, the purchased music can be played directly on a personal computer, and even has a recording function. Therefore, after the sale from the Yahoo Music Store and Fireflyer was launched at the same time, the "Titanic" digital soundtrack album, Driven by the albums of singers such as Super Boy and Madonna, it only took 5 days to sell 1 million songs on the Yahoo Music Store. This data far exceeds the expectations of everyone in the industry. Before this, even the most The bold prediction also indicated that it would take at least two months for the Yahoo Music Store to achieve the first sales of 1 million songs, but in fact, this process only took 5 days.

According to this sales rate, Yahoo Music Box can achieve at least $70 million in sales revenue in the first year. It has to be said that this data is still very obvious to promote the overall revenue of Yahoo Network. After all, before the IPO, Yahoo will definitely need a better annual report.

Yahoo's music store sales data far exceeded expectations, and the most nervous is undoubtedly the major record companies. After all, the CD burning function provided by Yahoo Music Box software almost directly destroyed the original ecology of the record industry. Before that, the average price of a music album on the market was around $20, but the Yahoo Music Store halved the price at one time. Even though the cut of the product company's $7 per digital album from Yahoo's music store is not much less than the profit from selling a physical product, the major record labels are still at odds.

Two weeks after Sony made that statement earlier this month, Sony Records, along with two other recording giants, BMG and EMI, filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco seeking a ban on the production and sale of MP3 players, citing the spread of piracy. (To be continued.)