If she's like many other 18-year-olds, wanting a camera to take clubbing and put in a bag with her keys then three cameras at £33 would be a much better bargain.
I'm no expert on cameras, but given the way they have evolved over the last decade I should expect the same over the next. My £250 Olympus from 2003-4ish was never any use as it ate batteries like a hungry elephant. My £70 Samsung from 2010 is a relatively serious piece of kit. (Argos sale shop from eBay.)
I think a £100 digital camera is a bit like a £2200 banger. Too cheap to be excellent, too expensive to be a throwaway.
You could give her a £50 camera and the promise of its replacement.
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