Cliff Electronic Components was founded in 1977 to supply the music industry with connectors. Cliff has greatly expanded its products and services to become a high quality supplier to most professional and industrial markets.
Along with success comes the counterfeiters and Cliff is warning that it has come to their attention that customers are buying counterfeit CLIFF Jack Sockets.
Genuine CLIFF Jacks Sockets are manufactured under strict quality control to exacting specifications. To spot the difference between Genuine CLIFF Jack Sockets and counterfeits can be difficult.
All Genuine Cliff Products are produced under an ISO 9001 quality controlled system, using high grade materials. These materials are selected so that Genuine CLIFF Jack Sockets pass greater than 10,000 plug insertions.
The counterfeit parts are made from poor quality materials which have been tested, and customers have advised, fail after only a few plug insertions.
Please do not be caught out by counterfeit products, as the long term effects from using poor quality counterfeit products can cause untold financial losses, product failures, and damage to you company name. It has been reported that companies which bought these counterfeits, had product failures, and have tried to return them to the original supplier for credit without success.
The genuine CLIFF Jack Socket is made in the UK and is marked "CLIFF UK". The counterfeit is just marked "CLIFF".
The number on the moldings is just a cavity number used for mold identification.
This counterfeit CLIFF Jack Socket is only marked "CLIFF".
Authentic CLIFF Jack Sockets are made in the UK and are marked "CLIFF UK".
The authentic and counterfeit CLIFF Jack Sockets may look visibly similar, but there are significant quality differences.
Consumers have reported the counterfeit jack sockets failed after just a few uses.
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