apparently the shit's pretty easy to replace. a friend of mine smashed his iPod out of anger over a girl (idiot) and my other friend saved it and looked up some shit on ebay and just bought replacement parts and fixed it. there's only like 4 parts to an ipod, but you have to have a special tool to get it open, which you can apparently find on ebay. and if not just google it.

and i know a few people that have gotten these free ipod things to work by making several fake email accounts. the only down side is that you have to use a legit credit card and most offers charge you at least a little something, but still less than buying an actual ipod in the store.