Then visit a proper sewing machine shop and talk to an engineer who mends the things rather than a sales droid. Tell them whet you want to sew, and look at pre-loved machines. Don’t buy anything new and plastic for that kind of money: it’ll last about 5 minutes (if you are lucky!). There ARE a few OK ones out there at that price, but you don’t know how to judge that yet, and they are hard to find.

I wouldn’t buy a new Singer at present. Singer no longer make machines: they are all bought in from the far east and badged. The last decent one they did in that price was the Singer 117 Featherweight II (I looked long and hard at a lot of this type and bought one for my mum). It doesn’t like heavy fabrics, can’t cope with denim, but was fine as a granny’s light weight machine. NOT what you want if you think you might sew curtain fabric or turn up jeans hems…

Brother in that price bracket are equally patchy.

Look for a nice used Frister & Rossman, Elna, Pfaff, Husqvarna or Bernina pre-loved mechanical machine.