Ecom people
see if you can explain this story because I am very confused.

I had one supplier (we’ll call him supplier A) but I thought supplier A was giving me bad pricing so I went to another supplier, supplier B. I ended up speaking to supplier b for a while and after telling them the name of my company they said that supplier A was a middle man.
They proceeded to tell me that they are the actual factory, and sent me pictures of my products being produced to prove that supplier A was just a middle man.
So I was convinced and I placed my order with supplier B. Supplier A somehow knew I placed my order with supplier B and called me upset about it. He then sent me photos of my products being produced and insisted that supplier B was lying and that supplier b was the middle man.
I have no idea what the actual business model is here and how both suppliers have access to the same photos of my products being produced.
My guess is that they are both essentially a sales company that supplies jobs to the same manufacturer and gets a commission.
People that know a lot about manufacturing in China, does my theory sound right?