When founding a company in these dire times a lot of people unbeknownst to you congratulate you. They congratulate you on our audacity, on our defiance; they wish us all the best for our challenge and pot loads of money earned. Of the later all of the correspondents of course want a share. They offer services ranging from office products, to rubber stamps, to lunch checks, to insurance policies, to letterhead paper, to marking equipment, to “free” consulting, to… name it.

For instance we received four different offers from for different field offices from the same insurance company we took out insurance a few days earlier (Folks, you have a CRM issue here).

The worst, however, are all these non-official commercial registries. We received about a half dozen letters all posing as official register of some sorts with a pay-in slip attached reading at least CHF 593.50 [1, 2, 3]. It’s a total fake. There is just one official register in Switzerland for each canton. So these guys basically count on unsuspecting clerical employees to clear the bill and pay. Cost of producing the bill (including postage) they sent us: max CHF 1.10 (1)

So basically they need every 500th company to pay to produce a healthy profit. Same business model as those spammers. Just the delivery method differs: It’s snail mail.

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(Okay there is this one company that copied our entry in the official Swiss publication (SHAB) and glued it to the bill. Folks, you have an efficiency issue here.)

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