I went to the RK Show in Smyrna, TN, this Sunday for a couple of reasons. I worked the TFA booth for a little bit, I wanted to try to sell that green laser, and I wanted to sell my high-cap WASR-10 before prices dropped.
One outta three ain’t bad, I guess. I worked the TFA booth, but the other two were a bust.
Prices on AKs dropped about $200-$300 since the last show I went to so it looks like I missed the boat on that one. I had a dealer offer me $650 for my WASR with the thumbhole stock at the show in May and Sunday I saw a NIB WASR with a standard stock for $479.
I only saw one dealer with green lasers, and his were $99 marked down from $129. Looks like people have figured out that either a) they can get them cheaper or b) the lasers aren’t really that good for weapon mounting. Probably a bit of both.
Now for my bleg: I want to put a cheap-but-not-horrific 3-9x scope on the AK. I bought the mount a bit back so I just need a scope. I don’t plan on engaging anything past 200yds because this is just going to be a range toy. It’s just for fun. It’s not like an AK is some super-accurate sniper rifle that I need to put $700 glass on. I’m looking in the under $50 range but I don’t want it to look like I’m aiming through the bottom of a drinking glass. And I want it to hold a zero 
I was thinking something along the lines of this or this, but I can’t really tell if they’re rifle scopes or airgun/rimfire scopes.









Hm. The first link does not work the way you want, I do not believe.
As for scopes… well, that is unfortunately one of those situations where you definitely get what you pay for. For cheap junker scopes, I have heard good things about Barska and TruGlo, so that might be an option.