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Please join ERAI, We welcome all Chinese suppliers to take benefit of our escrow services and safe trading.

We have over 200 Chinese members who are successfully trading with North America.

Terry Lively

Operations Manager

ERAI

ERAI Grievance Committee Moderator

Direct phone: 239-919-5839   Fax: 239-919-5827

ERAI Main phone: 239-261-6268

tlively@erai.com

American Companies affiliated to ERAI are main problem behind harvesting fakes in China. Unless these companies are stopping their business with flea markets, problem will not end. We have seen some companies like USBID, VISIONTECH, V & C Technologies, AERI, Global Source Electronics, MVP Micro ,Oxygen Electronics, Stock-point,New Advantage,NASCO, 4 STAR, Tytronix aka Epic aka Pilgrim components, Big apple, IDENTEK, who are trading millions if not billions of worth of counterfeits and fake knowingly from china for want of big profit. Most of these companies seems to be enjoying affiliation of ERAI, IDEA, ISO-9001, but still relying on Chinese goods which are marketed with American packing.

Visiontech a close affiliate of ERAI who is recently been caught with 16 million worth of military counterfeits. Direct beneficiary as well as middleman like Kristal and Mark Snider are main reasons behind the menace of military fakes in North America.

I am from Thailand.

We bought part from a company in USA, ( ERAI member)
Full qty found  counterfeit. Got no refund.  ERAI help them to cheat us.

To Whom It May Concern:

For the last several years, ERAI, its principals and employees have been the target of an intense smear campaign orchestrated by an individual who seeks to bring harm to ERAI, its principals, employees and any person or business who interferes with the perpetrator’s ominous cyber attacks.  For a long period of time, ERAI was more or less exclusively the primary target of these libelous broadcasts.   Now, numerous businesses are among the victims of these often-times unprovoked outbursts.  

ERAI is frequently asked why these posts have been and continue to be made.   Simply put, due to the nature of our organization which involves monitoring, investigating, reporting, and mediating issues affecting the global supply chain of electronics, it is not uncommon to have companies that have been reported by ERAI attempt to discredit our organization. The hundreds of posts that are currently visible on the Internet have been made by one individual using dozens of Internet screen names.  Because the Internet provides bloggers with a cloak of anonymity, a person can create the illusion of numerous disgruntled or concerned individuals when that is simply not the case. The author of these posts is an individual that was reported by ERAI for selling faulty material.  He made numerous threats against ERAI and its employees both during the investigation and after he was reported.  

It helps to have a better understanding of our organization in order to understand the motivation of these types of criminals.   Founded in 1995 and incorporated in 1996, ERAI is a privately held trade organization that has been the industry's primary reporting and investigation service supplying information, mediation and risk mitigation solutions to electronics professionals worldwide.  Membership to ERAI is open to franchised and independent distributors, OEMs, OCMs, CMs, test houses, government agencies and associations serving the industry.  ERAI is actively involved in a number of committees and task forces that are addressing the issue of counterfeit parts in the global supply chain of electronics.  

There are a number of reasons why counterfeiting has become so rampant in the last few years, such as the breakdown of trade barriers among countries with less restrictive IP laws, the green initiatives that have led to more e-waste and easy access through the Internet to market and sell material easily.  Counterfeiting has become a global issue affecting multiple industries from electronics to golf clubs, pharmaceuticals and tobacco, among others.  It is particularly troubling to ERAI since counterfeit electronics can not only affect individuals’ health and safety, but could even be a threat to national security.  Every industry has been affected and ERAI is working diligently to address the problem in the electronics sector and to offer solutions to this very serious issue. Unfortunately, we have to accept the fact that the Internet creates an audience for individuals to post information that is entirely false, inaccurate and without merit.

ERAI is uniting the industry in addressing issues that are plaguing the market and we hope you can be part of the solution with us.

ERAI deeply regrets the frustration and/or confusion these cyber attacks have caused. Despite the difficult obstacles ERAI must sometimes face, it will continue to provide the valuable information and services its Members have come to rely upon to make the most informed business decisions possible.  ERAI remains committed to serving its customers with the integrity and professionalism the semiconductor industry has come to expect.  

Sincerely,
Kristal Snider
ksnider@erai.com
Vice President
ERAI Inc.

I find it egregious that within the government report, attachment 22, an IDEA and ERAI member was purchasing parts directly from a non-Vat Chinese e-waste dealer and selling the parts to L-3, Lockhead Martin and others. Classic example of 'screening' and moving e-waste.

This PROVES that IDEA and ERAI are NOT effective in combating the e-waste problem so long as many of their members are merely using these associations/clubs to move the highest quality e-waste. It makes the organizations look bad. In my opinion they are trying to 'limit competition' under the guise of 'we're better than the other guys cause we have 'testing procedures.' It's a SHAM in my opinion.

The government is showing that the 'self policing' and association/club programs created by independents and run by independents are a fraud.

This company was not following the protical established by their organizations. They reported nothing to their organizations. They didn't perform the necessary testing (full functional or trace ability to the factory) that would have shown all this product to be regraded E-WASTE.

If you think an ERAI or IDEA tag is your get out of jail free card, license to ship and regrade e-waste through 'screening' you are sorely mistaken. I think the government will 'set another example' by bringing down a senior or senior members of these organizations.

Chip Checker / 1source Electronic components ( Similar to Visiontech components) are selling fake /chinese substandard/ counterfeit parts.

Chip checker buy  everything from Shenzhen which is sold by 1 source electronic components in USA.
Usually military/commercial counterfeit electronic parts. Shenzhen is hub of main counterfeiting.  
This company is selling millions of worth bogus/substandard parts which is associated with ERAI.

Beware of Chipchecker aka 1 source electronic components.

This statement is completely inaccurate. 1-Source and chipchecker are 2 seperate companies. 1-Source is Not affiliated with the ERAI. Any parts from Asia are sent to third party testing ( not to Chipchecker )
We have very strict anti-couterfeit guidelines.

ERAI is one big fraud organisation run by a lady Kristal w . snider who was a in a profession of hair styling and massage business ran a small shop by name Pilgrimage components selling fake chinese components. Later became ring leader of counterfeit trade in USA. Her close associates like Harry Krantz, usbid, Visiontech, Bay components, Tytronix, Rose electronics, V&C technologies have been found caught selling military counterfeits, many of them are already booked  and jailed.  Beware of Gary Heyes, Kristal snider, Jeff krantz, Terry Lively, Mark Snider.