squier strat or tele?

[EugeneSmasher]

Gibson, Fender, Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha, Dean, etc sucks as well. if you come before an abominable product, regardless of the brand name, it still sucks.

+10000000000 to infinity.

Rule of thumb is that the quality you see is determined by the factory that produced it. I've played both excellent and utter crap guitars from Indonesia. A factory with good quality standards will produce good guitars. Full-stop.