I've always been kind of confused on how the industry works....We all see a million aluminum tarck frames flooding the market, Leader has been around (I love my 721), now there is unknown, aventon, 17teeth, the list goes on and on.

So my question is, (without trying to ask you to expose too many secrets or step on people's toes), does a company like Leader basically have specs/plans that they send to a shop in Taiwan and that's "their" bike that they truly designed and have rights to, they get welded and sent back to Leader where Leader paints them and what not?
Or is it similar to how the market works with all of the hi-tensile bikes that are all the same (critical, purefix, etc) where the bikes are already made, they order 1000 of them at a time in 10 color combinations, slap a decal on the bike, and sell it at 3x the cost.

I guess I'm basically wondering if there is a huge difference between all of the aluminum bikes or if they're just mass produced and sold to us at a ridiculous markup and none of the companies are really using any integrity. Not asking about any one company in particular, just wanted to know if the industry standard was to **** customers with low quality in several colorways.