Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

Compared with Heye Pictures, Heye Comics' business has just started and is in the first stage.

Now Mike is the only cartoonist.

Of course, the team of artists will have to continue to expand in the future. After all, as a journal magazine, it cannot have only one work serialized at a time, and the library must be expanded.

However, the business had just started, and Xia Yuan did not expect to make "Heye Comics" a big hit in the early stages.

Because whether from the perspective of business logic or reality, such a situation is impossible.

What he is doing is nothing more than creating more ways for the company to spend money, and to engage in more businesses that can continuously consume funds, so that when the time comes to lose money, he can get the money more smoothly.

Now according to the report data, the sales of the first issue of "Heye Comics" are not very ideal.

One hundred thousand copies were printed in the first issue, and they were all consumed in Luoshengdu.

However, according to the feedback from some of the following bookstores and comic shops, their comic sales are not very good. Basically 80% of them are given away as gifts along with the magazines, and the remaining 20% ​​are bought at a discount.

It can be said that all this money was invested.

Now, a month has passed, and the second issue is about to be released.

After all, they are a monthly magazine, and they publish one issue per month.

"Let's print 10 copies this time." Xia Yuan thought.

Their market share is very limited now, and the tertiary markets below don’t take much of their products. 10 copies are enough for now, and if there are more, they simply cannot digest them.

Soon, under Xia Yuan's suggestion, Heye Comics determined the sales target for the latest issue: it was the same as the previous plan, with the same distributors and the same sales quantity.

Even so, some distributors still said they no longer wanted the goods.

Charles is one of them.

As a genuine old white man from California, he runs an Old Shire Bookstore in Fall Sainte-City, which has a considerable customer flow.

When facing the salesperson from Heye Comics, he clearly showed his impatience this time.

"Oh my god, I told you I don't want it!"

While Charles was impatient, there was a hint of disdain in his eyes: "Don't you understand? My bookstore is the largest bookstore with the highest sales in the surrounding area. We have no shortage of publications to sell!"

Isn’t this clear enough?
The subtext is naturally that the size of Heye Comics is too small, and he simply doesn't bother to take over this share.

Although some time ago, the salesperson of Heye Comics invited their major distributors to dinner and gave them some gifts.

But didn’t he try? He had already given it a chance in the first issue last month, and he had tried to get some in to give it a try.

But the result?
It can't be sold at all!
A considerable portion of them were given away as gifts along with the magazine.

Although this part of the loss of free gifts from the magazine can be reimbursed by Heye, Heye will also compensate them with the payment for the goods.

But for Charles, is this important? It's not important at all.

Even if He Ye would reimburse him, it would only be the cost price, and he would have wasted his inventory and shelves to display these rubbish that could not be sold at all.

"Yes, garbage. Do you know what garbage is?" Charles said impatiently, "It means that this is something that no one wants. You should take your garbage and go home quickly. Do you understand what I mean? My shelves are used to display more valuable goods, such as "DT Comics" and "American Comics Day", not your things. Our cooperation is over, do you understand? That's it!" "Hey, Mr. Charles, that's not the case. We are just starting out. You have to believe us. Our President Xia also said that as the first batch of dealers, you enjoy certain privileges. If the comic club develops smoothly in the future, you will have the first batch of ordering rights. If you control a large amount of goods, your share will be given priority, and you will also have the official benefits of Heye."

"Who cares?" Old Charles didn't care at all. Instead, his attitude was very disdainful.

The American comics industry is now so competitive and there are so many giants. Admittedly, if he is one of the first distributors and waits for Heye to develop, he can indeed enjoy many benefits and even get rich by relying on such a big tree.

But how easy is it to develop a comic book company in such a competitive industry? How can it be achieved so easily? How can such a good thing happen?

So he didn't think this day would come at all.

So, why waste so much time?
The salesperson had a slightly gloomy expression.

Because old Charles is definitely not the first person to choose to do this. In fact, this is the behavior of many people they have faced during this period of time, and Charles is just one of them.

Because the performance of the first issue was not ideal, many distributors are now considering abandoning their channels and leaving shelf resources for better publications.

The salesperson wanted to continue to fight for it: "But we have already signed a cooperation agreement for a period of one year. If you breach the contract, you will be blacklisted by the head office and will never cooperate again."

"I said, Who cares? Do I need to repeat it for the third time? Is there any penalty for breach of contract in your contract?" Old Charles continued to ask.

"No." The salesman could only sigh and shake his head: "Because President Xia said that we have to take the dealer's emotions into consideration, so no penalty will be set."

"Then why don't you go away?" said old Charles.

"Well, I can only wish your business prosper."

Seeing that Old Charles had made up his mind, the salesman knew that there was no going back on the matter, so he naturally said nothing more and left alone with the goods.

As for old Charles?
He never took the matter to heart from beginning to end.

Still blacklisting? Never cooperate?

It may be useful to deceive children, otherwise everyone is out here to do business and no one doesn't want to make money.

If one day in the future the sales of Heye Comics really pick up, he doesn't believe that they will not supply him with goods. After all, if a bookstore is really put on the blacklist, especially a big bookstore like his own, it would be a loss-making thing. After all, as the saying goes, more friends mean more paths. There are no absolute friends or eternal enemies in this world.

But what happened next stunned Charles.

Early this morning, after the bookstore opened, it welcomed a large number of customers.

He could recognize that many of them were regular customers of the store.

So he sat at the cash register himself.

"Hey, hey, don't push us. We have everything. What are you here for? If it's DT comics, we have plenty of stock. Don't worry."

However, what the guests said next made Charles stunned.

"Hurry up! Old Charles! Where's this month's 'Heye Comics'? The new issue is out, right? Bring it to me! I need one!"

"I want one too!" (End of this chapter)