@vlam I don't think it's that easy as "
this is the same one with just a different brand on it for half the price".
Imagine you're the owner of a large factory in China that can make almost everything. A company, like Rogue, places an order for quality kettlebells, they are very precise about what they want, what materials to use, how the molds are made, the purity of the cast iron, how the sanding of the handles are done, quality control (meaning how many you have to throw away) etc.
You make them to the best of everyone's ability and everyone is happy.
A few months later someone else places an order for kettlebells.
You already have the molds, even though technically Rouge owns them (it's China), and the customer wants as many as possible for the lowest price possible done quickly to save on labor cost . Out goes quality control, you use the most impure cheap iron/scrap metal you can find, the cheapest toxic plastic available for the coating, fill them up with concrete instead of cast iron and do just as many kettlebells in half the time and deliver some very shady kettlebells on time. The kettlebells get the brand "
Rougee".
Is it still a Rogue Kettlebell at half the price?