I paid $1100 for my Norinco. It came with a USGI wood stock, rear sight, trigger group and magazine. It came with a chopped flash hider and I replaced it with a Keep Shooting flash hider ($40). Overall I got a pretty good deal. I wasn't expecting the USGI trigger group, so that was a very pleasant surprise.
I'd take a Chinese M14 clone over a new Springfield Armory. The older Springfield that is most USGI is a different story. But the new commercial guns have mostly MIM parts and are not comparable to the old guns. The one upside to the Springfield is the lifetime warranty. I had an old HK91 clone with the cast aluminum receiver (not the steel stamped one). I bought it used and it never worked right. I sent it to Springfield and they replaced it with a M1A rifle. I sold it without even looking at it to fund a cross country motorcycle trip.
The Norincos has forged receivers and chrome lined bores. So the main parts are decent quality. The wood stocks are cheap and rear sight is mushy. Both are easy to replace, although USGI parts are climbing in price. You can upgrade to a USGI bolt if you want, but research the reason why most think the Chinese M14 have bad bolts, essentially, they are repeating what they heard. People used .308 Win gauges which are different than 7.62 Nato gauges and it failed. The majority of guns will pass with a true 7.62 Nato gauge. Now with that said, I'm sure there is a bad gun in the bunch. But I have had more bad Springfield Armory guns than the dozens of Norincos I have owned (Uzi, M14, AK, SKS, Tokarev, Hawk shotgun, etc.).