So, I advised getting a few lessons; you also need to get that guitar set-up. Almost every new guitar can use a set-up, the extremely cheap ones can be nearly unplayable. All guitars suffer from imperfect, but generally manageable intonation, but at this end of the price range it's likely that you won't be able to compromise tuning suitably to accommodate more than one or two chords.

Yeah, well- if you can play it, then good. I would have saved up for something a little more expensive myself. That cheap a price, the manufacturer has to cut a lot of corners in order to make them profitable at that price point. I suspect that this at least part of the problem.