I follow a Facebook group dedicated to 'Rickenfakers'. The Chinabacker basses available on that website turn up there semi-frequently. The only one I've ever taken real notice of was one made from Lucite. I liked it because Rickenbacker certainly don't make a transparent 4003 bass! Other than that the Chinese stuff seems deceitfully marketed and lazily built. The Rick copies are well off the mark, and often arrive with the pickups in the wrong phase. The bridge pickups are typically too close to the bridge and the body geometry is usually all wrong. The hardware is usually mounted squint as well. I find that slightly insulting, as these guys will sell them with 'Made in the US' on the TRC. The bullshit notion is that you are buying a real Rick, just as a miraculously low price, so you basically feed a system that dupes buyers by voluntarily being duped. Still, some guys claim they are good.
8 String thunderbird with minibuckers, all the tuners down one side of the headstock and a purple burst finish? What is there not to love!