Excluding some of the more rare or non-import marked SKS rifles, the Russians fall behind or in the same area as blade bayonet (early) Chinese SKS rifles in value. They are definitely above all of the later import commercial Chinese SKS rifles. Laminated stock Russian rifles usually are priced higher than the standard stocked models. Also, a Russian without the refurb mark (square with a line through it) and all matching (no line out) numbers will bring more money. However, this is a collectors perspective and most ordinary people just see a SKS that they used to see being sold cheap (Chinese commercial SKS from the 1980s and 1990s). I paid about $400.00 for my last one, but that was around 7 or 8 years back and it was an all matching nice looking rifle. If the blade and bolt carrier are black, I personally would grade it on the low end. I have seen some that look like the whole rifle was re-parked during the refurb process and not as attractive as the normal in the white bolt carrier and blade. My guess would be non-refurb matching excellent $800 and a low end nice matching refurb $500. One with box and accessories is currently at $855 on Gunbroker.