I have a Kodak Easyshare 1253. Just bought it. You can find them online for $260, pretty brand new so I doubt you'd find many on eBay. It shoots awesome-quality video for such a cheap camera, nothing else in the price range even comes close. 720p HD video, has a stereo mic jack in the front. Very compact, almost super-compact, though it has a huge LCD screen that takes up virtually the entire back side of the camera. Pretty simple to use. Lens is so-so. 3x optical zoom. It shoots 12 megapixel pictures, which is HUGE... something you would only really need if you are printing out life-sized posters. It also shoots in panorama, but then the best resolution is 9 MP. decent battery life. Startup time and picture capture times are both fairly quick.
Some problems I have with it... it performs pretty poorly in low-light conditions. pointing and shooting in the club or at dimly lit parties or night-time football games is probably going to result in a lot of blur. There is digital image stabilization built in but it doesn't work all that well, and no optical image stabilization which I think is supposed to be better. I think the hookups to my laptop are proprietary, always annoying. memory cards are standard, though. the built-in mic works okay but sometimes sound can be distorted. It's also hard to shoot things close-up.
If you want to buy my old Sony Mavica I'll sell you that for $100. My cousin just bought it on eBay for $150 about six month ago. Great camera for its day, a little bulky now. Good resolution. It uses mini-discs for picture storage and has a built-in CD burner.