There was another thread on here a few weeks back about the Chinese ARF's on eBay. Ithink you can tell them by the twenty-something shipping on them. The consensus seemed to be that they were fairly decent for the money. Just the usual ARF reinforcements and they were good to go. Ithink if you search "Chinese", you should find the thread. I'm sure there was a reply lately on it. Might have been in the Beginners forum, if not this one.
I went and found it. 5 pages now.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_9103651/tm.htm