Ken, many of those cheap binos are likely to disappoint. I tried to buy an inexpensive pair of 7x50s from Andrews last year. They had about half a dozen different models at the time but could not find me one that was at least fully coated and did not have ruby coated objective lenses.
On a <$100 budget I'd go for a Celestron UpClose, which are well built binos with fully coated optics at little over $60 for the 7x35 and 10x50 models from centre.net.au. (Andrews and AOE stock them too and I'm sure they could match any price.) I have bought the 10x50 UpClose for a present and tried them out before passing them on. I was most pleasantly surprised with both build quality and performance. Of course at night it does not have the higher contrast you get from full multicoatings, but would make a useful observing tool nevertheless; much better than anything else under $100.
I'm moving bargain knockies discussion to a new thread.
