My iphone 4 will no longer turn on

My phone was working fine all morning and I had at least 25% battery life remaining.  When I picked it up to use it, and pressed the bottom button to wake it up, it would not wake up from sleep mode.  I assumed maybe the battery had drained so I plugged it in to let it charge but it never displayed the charging symbol.  I have not been able to turn it on all day.  This happened to me once before and all i had to do was plug it in for a long time and eventually it turned back on.
I called Apple support and all the tech would tell me is that from what it sounds, it's a power problem.  All he could offer was for me to send my phone in and they could either fix it or replace it for 169$ plus tax.  Has anyone else had this problem and is this worth 169$??????????  I need my phone for work so I need to get this taken care of ASAP

have you tried holding down the home/power button together until you see the apple logo and then release.

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