My Mrs is a hardcore (Rickenbacker lover) she has a nice collection of them both basses an guitars an after a visit to England over a year ago i dont think she has stopped laughing at a copy of a "360-6" that was in a local music shop called a "RockinBetter"
My first electric guitar was a Squire strat that was first modified with masking tape to say "Squishy stratocaster", eventually the tape was replaced and the 're' scrapped off with a knife and the 'shy' painted in by hand.... Seemed like a good idea until I went to trade it in, though I guess you can only worry so much about the resale value of one of those guitars.
i was kind of hoping because the picture was small that someone out there made a cheap copy of a squier. Becuase that would be the most ridiculous thing ive seen in my life.