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instead of ordering the same gun in .308 for $200 more.
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If you are being charged $200 more for the same gun in .308, you are being ripped off, and a fool if you pay it.
From the OP, you are looking at a $450 gun? rifle & scope combination? Sadly, in today's market, that makes it a bargain gun, and while perfectly serviceable for many things, they are never the highest quality, and so not suited for highly specialized things (like long range match shooting).
To make an imperfect analogy, go buy a new Ford economy car (Fusion?), or something similar. Perfectly fine for getting around town or taking a trip, but you won't see any running at Daytona...
The accuracy advantage of the .308 over the .30-06 exists, but its only significant in match rifles and long range shooting. in the field, it is essentially meaningless.
Also the 100fps difference between the two means approximately half an inch difference in drop at 100yds (and the ratio is constant as the distance increases). There is no animal that can tell the difference, and for every guy who thinks the 06 drops 'em faster or kills them deader, there is a guy who thinks the .308 does it better than the 06.
When you are talking about regular sporting rifles any individual rifle (and ammo) in 06 may be more accurate than another individual one in .308, and the opposite is also true.
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Remember one of the reasons the military went from 30-06 was because to a certain extent it was it was an over-kill ON HUMANS!
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This sounds sensible, except that the military replaced the 06 with a round that had EXACTLY THE SAME BALLISTICS! There is a whole 10fps (TEN FEET PER SECOND) difference in the specs for GI ball .30-06 and .308 (150gr bullet). There is NO DIFFERENCE between the two.
Where you get the 100fps (200fps maybe, with certain loads) is shooting commercial ammo in civilian rifles.