654 Chapter 654 - The Sensible Five Nights (1/2)
Five Nights was very despondent, and Deep Waters' laughter only made him all the more unhappy He could also sense that the other party in this negotiation was not particularly sincere, which meant that they were not troubled whether they collaborated or not The deal would go through if the conditions were favorable, but they would sieous, cos out together as a show of goodwill This sort of partner was best avoided when normally encountered, but when the proverbial pie in question was the efficientroutines, these two men were the only ones able to do this business to the best of his knowledge, so giving up on the up on the entire deal itself
Thus, while Eternal Dohts was definitely unable to do the sa over this, he finally bit the bullet and snapped, ”Then, how about this; you two shall work together with ourand evaluation of this project, as well as get an initial forecast of potential profits We'll then take that 20 of the value as the commission's baseline, so even if we are unable to attain the result we predict, we can still pay you according to the suentlehts entlemen' when he said this because this project was ultimately a collaboration with Eternal Dominion, but this Thousand Miles Drunk would always be interfering causing trouble frohts had lost his cohtly revealed a bit of his mood He could already tell that if it were not for Thousand Miles Drunk's intervention, Eternal Doht with just the 2-hts was remorseful! He should not have hurriedly approached these two ether but should have attempted to understand eitherout just Eternal Do would have played out as beautifully as he wanted Now, he was in a situation where this annoying fly by the na about, ihts wanted to do so, and it was truly a vexing ordeal
Gu Fei had no idea if what Five Nights had proposed was acceptable, so he turned to look at Deep Waters
Deep Waters chuckled ”This predicted result you're referring, is it the revenue, gross profit, or net profit? Please be plain with your words”
When Five Nights saw that even this final condition could not be fudged, he could only regretfully answer, ”This… shall we go by gross profit?”
”What's the difference?” Gu Fei asked
”Gross profit will be revenue minus the main cost of operation, net profit will be the revenue minus all expenses, which includes tax and the ilk” Deep Waters gave a sihts with a sross profit?”
Five Nights instantly knew that this newcomer Gu Fei had pulled over was not for show and was definitely so in a workshop operated Generally speaking, gross profit would be the revenue after the deduction of initial costs incurred, and this would usually refer to the cost of purchased goods, like when selling so for 1000 dollars, the 400 dollars cost for initial purchase ross profit would be 600 dollars As for the cost of labor, transportation, water, electricity, rent, and other such expenditures would all be deducted when calculating the net profit However, workshops deal with virtual goods and currencies in MMOs, and these products would be directly handled by the game system, so how could there be any initial costs that needed to be considered? That hy there was no such thing as gross profit in the workshop business, since there were essentially no costs to bear
If this was handled by soross profit would be treated as a general condition, allowing the workshop to have a final say by rando up some excuses or reasons to create some sort of 'initial cost price', which would naturally end up going into the pockets of the workshop Of course, that meant the 20 after such a deduction would be inally earned
”Brother Five Nights, we're all people who knoe're doing, so don't s more convoluted than necessary The cost of the workshop business is nothingup accounts You can throw in the electricity bill as well, and if you're really shameless, anddevices used Of course, I know that Reuys would love to include the costs incurred by your office site, administrative expenses, and other such expenditure into theto do that, I don't think we can have an agree about was definitely things Gu Fei would not have even thought could be factored in, so this trip that Deep Waters had taken was at leastthat the other party had sohts had no choice but to openly state, ”Of course, on't be calculating all that in, but if the final scope of this project turns out to be very huge, the expenditure on h members in our workshop and ill be forced to hire other external players, so when looking at the labor cost, shouldn't we include it into the equation? Of course, the suh when assessing the project's prospects together The final profit subjected to the sharing will thus be the revenue ree to include; how about it?”
Deep Waters listened Five Nights was finally done with the tricks and doing this properly This suggestion that he raised was basically fair to both parties, and he sent a e to Gu Fei ”We're almost there”
Unexpectedly, Gu Fei wrinkled his brows ”What do you mean by prospect assessment and that we still need to calculate the cost we need to bear? We don't know any of those things!”
Five Nights nearly blurted out that what he wanted was for theue Furthermore, this could not be considered to be a trap of any sort If everyone worked together, considering that this portion was the most linked to the final division of profits, the workshop would be sure to set their potential costs to the highest plausible amount and make a more conservative estimate for their revenue Meanwhile, Gu Fei and Eternal Doe here would of course be finding out which party had a h Five Nights really hoped that these two clueless men would personally step up to this task, he knew that Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion would not be so foolish to do so Rather, they would most likely make this person who seemed very accustomed to hoorkshops operated participate in their stead
Who is this person? I've already asked for his name, yet he hasn't answered me Could it be inconvenient for hts contemplated over this If this person was from a sizeable workshop, similar in scale to Remarkable Flair, he would surely make a beeline for their aid the ht Why else would Five Nights be so anxious and seek to act quickly regarding this matter? Was it not out of the fear that other workshops would swoop in and snatch this business fro routines had came into existence so pro an eye on it! Five Nights ht have taken the first step, but the elee, and fear; he was deathly afraid that sootiations tothat this person had actually coht across the table, this should mean that he was not a coround, ould it be inconvenient for hihted to find out that both Gu Fei and Eternal Do when it caer bothered to raise any other idea Thus, the two ard Deep Waters, and all that uys with this as well, but I'm afraid that I can't do so for the next step of this matter”
”Why not?” Gu Fei asked
”Because I'hts abruptly stood up The table was not flipped by his sudden lass of liquor before hi its contents all over the plate of barbecuedhis teeth as he glared hard He looked like he was about to beat Deep Waters alive
Deep Waters was still grinning as he spoke to Coco, as seated beside him, ”Look at that expression on his face now; this trip has truly been hile”
Coco threw hi a word Obviously, she knew that Deep Waters and Five Nights had a history with each other
Gu Fei started rapping his knuckles on the table when he saw this sudden change, placating Five Nights, ”Don't get so worked up It'll be very disadvantageous if you guys get angered and fight now…”
”Ha ha ha! That's right Very disadvantageous!” Deep Waters said even as he settled hi coe had of course heard of Deep Waters' na Experts Neither knew of the ani how Deep Waters seerasp of workshop operation, both uess the Archer had probably done work in Reed enhts as a result These two nervously kept their eyes on Five Nights, worried that his h their superior had snatched the ristle and soup for theotiations completely broke down at this point, there would not even be fishbones for them to suck on The very injustice that this would be a result of a private grudge that Five Nights held with the other party only n and Overgrown Foliage exchanged glances, hoping that the other would step up and cal so ravate him further; thus, neither n's expression soon turned soe instantly felt tears streamed down his face Dher superior, I'll be angering my superior, so what do I have to worry about here?
Helpless, Overgrown Foliage was about to bite the bullet and get up to coax Five Nights fro rash, but who knew that this director of six cities would dee person? At the very least, he was able to keep the bigger picture in view, and that er he showed had already subsided at this point He set the toppled glass upright on the table and no longer spared Deep Waters another glance as he addressed both Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion directly, ”So shall we take the first step and set this collaboration as such? I'll establish a dedicated team for this project and proceed to conduct et the proper contract done up soon and send it over to Brother Dominion here What say you?”
”He he he! Look everyone; that's indeed what it takes to conduct such o on a whi compared to the present!” Deep Waters blustered openly even as Coco harshly hit the e deal was about to be set in stone, Coco felt that it would be too much of a disservice for Eternal Do fell apart all because Deep Waters' provocations agitated Five Nights Thus, she was a little annoyed at how Deep Waters was still playing around, seely unaware of propriety in the face of the stakes involved
However, it was not that Deep Waters had no sense of propriety at all He had already learnt about Gu Fei having no wish to collaborate with this workshop any longer during their initial exchange of otiations with the sole intention of boldly stirring up trouble throughout the entire deal, but none of thehts would lay out a proper plan in spite of all the wrenches they tried to throw throughout this process This regional director froated all the pitfalls and focused on nailing down this deal, thereby allowing hiotiations oncethe trip over for nothing, so he revealed his IGN, at least to see just howhis identity
Deep Waters was rather satisfied with the hts very quickly controlled his eet the better of his actions and continuing to properly present his deal with great clarity to Gu Fei and Eternal Doot frolance onto Deep Waters ”We've got plenty of time to hash out our ht in mock fluster ”Ohhh… I'hts did not say anything further, fixing his eyes back onto Gu Fei and Eternal Doet on with the work on our end and will contact you guys at a later period”