I've seen (but not played) the Daisy Rocks at trade shows. They looked pretty good. Decent hardware and all. Looked on ebay and saw some new short scale models that fit the high end of your budget (buterfly model included). Probably with any guitar of this level though, you should play it before buying. Although if you are adept at doing fairly simple fretwork (leveling primarily) you'd probably be ok buying onlne. Guitars on this level seem to most often suffer from unleveled, poorly dressed frets.