Jason Knight
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- USA
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- Keene, NH
The vast majority of products are either built in the same factory, or built with components from the same suppliers. Very few if any products are true one-off's particularly if manufacturing is done in China.BTW, this light is nearly identical to its MUCH more expensive Cygolite counterpart in appearance, specs, and features. Two sellers fronting for the same manufacturer?
It's a bit like TV's. There are really only three companies that develop panel designs. LG, Samsung, and Sony. All the other companies making them are either OEM providers to those makers -- like how Kyocera is actually Sony -- or license the design -- see how Planar and Ritek license from LG -- or flat out ripped off the designs like what Konka did to Samsung.
More common though is that few "brand names" manufacture their own stuff anymore. Instead they farm out a factory to make a "run" of the product. A lot of times once those factories have filled their orders -- and this again is very common in china where IP laws mean absolutely nothing -- rather than break down the tooling or let it sit idle, they'll just keep spewing out product and letting anyone and their brother buy them, brand them, and sell them as knockoffs.
Knockoffs identical to the genuine article because they in fact are. This is why you'll often see on e-fence or Amazon the extact same products listed from seven different "brands" with zero discernable differences.
Made all the funnier by the rich fools who go "those aren't real" because they still think a brand name means something like it's still 1950.
This is why I'm surprised we don't have "genuine" Apple knockoffs given what a bunch of sleazy turds Foxconn's management is. But honest companies like TSMC are the likely bottleneck on that.