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$140 includes labor.
Coming soon, and previous generation prices look very promising for the do-it-yourselfer.

Sucks, but you can get it repaired.  Just don't throw it away.  That would be a total waste.  Keep trying Apple, just know that there are options.

For $39, I'm considering getting the Gen I screen just to have it around.

As a note, heat can also cause this problem.  LCDs are also sunlight magnets.  If you ever see your screen go black, get it out of the heat immediately.  You run the real risk of breakage.  I don't know what caused your problem, but I'm sure guessing that you weren't around when it occurred.  Anyone been awefully nice and supportive lately?

If all you need is to have somebody repair your iPod's cracked display, try http://www.pdasmart.com/, should the final word be "No way, Jose!"
1G iPod: $85
2G iPod: $100
3G iPod: $140
There's no listing at the site for 4G iPods when I looked in a while ago.
This has me wondering about an "iPod for parts" eBay listing that featured a 3G iPod with a cracked LCD display. ("It's not a necessity. You don't need a dockable iPod, the 2G unit works just fine. So what if only iPods with docks use current/cool/interesting stuff." So says the practical PC side, while the  Mac side casts looks of longing.)   

Maybe Apple should take some of it's 6 billion dollar surplus and repair the guy's iPod - after all - he already gave them $400 for it...

And don't give me any crap about "if they do it for him, they'll have to do it for everyone"  that's b.s. because most people want to use their iPod, not break it and send it in for repairs...

I got a new power supply when I was 1 month past warranty on my 867 by being polite and firm.  After all - they need satisfied, happy customers!

geez...

What I'm saying is, it's not really clear that the owner damaged it.  If it's not clear to the owner, then it shouldn't be "obvious" to Apple - on a case by case basis of course - some will be more obvious than others.

If Apple repaired every single broken iPod tomorrow, it wouldn't hurt them financially...

Pockets can be a dangerous place for the Ipod if you are wearing tight clothing. It can put alot of pressure on the ipod when you sit down. The Ipod is large enough that you can put significant pressure on it and it won't feel like it is pressing into your leg enough to be noticed. My ipod spends almost all of its time in my pocket but I tend to wear clothing with large pockets that don't fit extremely tight.
I just find it unlikely that he can't figure out how the screen broke. I've dropped my ipod on concrete more than once, i've hit the brakes and/or turned a corner to fast and had my Ipod fly around my car multiple times. And my ipod has nothing more than a few scratches on it.
So I think he may have had more luck getting the screen fixed by apple if he had actually known how the screen broke. Saying that you don't know how something like that could have happended sounds like an obvious lie to me. So i'm sure apple thinks the same way.
Sure apple could fix people's ipods that they aren't technically required to fix. But, no smart company is going to do that. Apple's goal is to make money and its that simple. Every Ipod they repair takes away their profit margin.

If you (very lightly) touch the LCD of your iMac or other monitor (not iPod or phone, there's glass covering it) you'll see little ripples or the "ink". (if you don't press for long or hold it down it should be harmless).

wooo
you guys never did that ??
it was lik 5 seconds after I saw flat panel in my life I went like uhhhhh this is fun
the old ones lcd based were better at this all goei and blurry you could swirl along in pattern of magical colors   

Zander wrote:

Yes, about this "ink." Would you care to discribe it please?

I don't know the exact mechanism, but I knew exactly what he was talking about right away.  When an LCD breaks, some contact or other is made or not made and the pattern spreading out from the break looks exactly like ink bleeding out from it under glass. 

It's not ink, but it looks so precisely like spreading ink that it's not surprising that that's how he's describing it.

I had a cell phone a while back and inadvertantly cracked the screen in two.  I had to have the screen replaced, which I got done at a mall kiosk for about $20 and ten minutes.   It's too bad that iPods aren't so simple.

Oooh yeah I remember now. My old phone did that too... after I threw it at a brick wall. Also when you press down and rub the lcd on a cheap calculator it does that also.

I was thinking that there was an actual liquid coming out of the iPod.

The only way to get that "inky" look would be if the lcd was pushed in or hit very hard. So yeah, I understand why Apple thinks it is was "tampered" with.

When my brother got rid of his GBA (Two times) I bought it for five dollars to smash the LCD. IT's awesome.

Zander wrote:

Note: there is no ink in LCD screens.

Yes, about this "ink." Would you care to discribe it please?

Maybe it's Apple juice. 

http://www.ipodmechanic.com/

Another option is that you can mail it to someone, with insurance, and then commit insurance fraud, claiming that it was damaged in shipping.  Not that I would know anything about that... 

Even though he may have broken it himself Apple should happily replace it because
1) Customer is ALWAYS right.
2) Apple and any other company should put out durable items that have been quality tested
That way reduction on wasted NRG to make it and landfill pollution is reduced.
3) Apple should respect a good quality ethic that its customers rely on.

http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/technotrash.htm
(check out PDF)

I don

Or send him this thread.