Only owned, shot unbranded CHICOMs, Norc-branded, and Keng's PolyTech branded SKS's. All were fine. The pointability of these guns are excellent.
A gigigillion CHICOM SKSs came in the USA in the early 80's, and sold for like $50.00 and up, often with a bandolier or even entire crate of CHICOM steel-core ammo tossed in with the deal.
I found two unfired CHICOMs, still swathed in CHICOM-chapstick, at a pawnshops about 4 years ago for under $200.00 each. They are out there and usually in much nicer physical condition than the Yugo or Romy SKS that I have seen.
Beware the really old, beat CHICOM or Russian SKS, as the earliest cheap 7.62x39 was corrosive, and with SKS being dirt cheap back in the day, they were treated as the Dodge Omni of the gun world and so likely were not well taken care of..