My husband got an Acer 310U at Frys (mea culpa mea culpa) for $49 and a $20 rebate several years ago. It was their last 300 dpi and first USB model. It has worked fine for several years although it may be starting to get a line in it. Probably needs cleaning. For $30 it couldn't be beat. so put Acer on your list.
You don't need anything with super high resolution, that will just give you super big files unless you save at a reasonable resolution. Most printers can't print to that and you only need about a 100 dpi for web posting.
So look for a close out, and good to better software included. We have friends that had another brand and until they got a in house visit by their kids all they could save to was a proprietary format and most people couldn't open their files.
The software and it's ability to fiddle with things may be more important than the machine.
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