Cheapest Way to Fix sticky keys?

Spilled some orange juice on my Macbook Pro and did my best to pull the keys out, clean them, and pop them back in. Most of them are still sticky and in the process of cleaning I busted a couple keys. I took it in to the Genius Bar and hoped they could just pop a few replacement keys on. Mainly I just need F6 and Space Bar replaced but he said that I would need to send it in and it would cost something like $1200. I spilled pop on the keyboard before and took it in and the guy took it in the back and popped in a couple replacement keys for me. No big deal, in and out. Now they want me to replace the whole top case and he explained how its not just the keys that are sticky it's the whole "mechanism". I know that liquid damage isnt covered but is there a better way to do this?

If you get it fixed outside of Apple's list of authorized repair agents you void any of the manfacturer's warranty that you have left. ANd I'm not sure if the terms of service allows us to help you do that.
Just bear in mind, you get what you pay for and if your cheap fix bricks it, then you're not only out the money you're out the iPad because Apple is highly unlikely to even touch a device that's out of warranty (since 'unauthorized' people have touched it, Apple would not be out of line to refuse to fix it since they can't be held liable for the potential shoddy job done by unauthorized people - not calling your guys shoddy, just saying Apple won't trust their workmanship)
What you got when you got it fixed in the APple store is that you paid for them to swap out your broken unit with a new or refurbished unit...you basically paid a reduced price to exchange broken for not broken.

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