Need advice on selling a 14" iBook with a cracked screen

hi,
I have badly cracked screen on my 14" 1.42ghz,80GB hard drive iBook - less than a year old. It's still usable, but I've decided I want to sell it, but can only fetch about $400 on craigslist.
My question is, what could I get if the screen was repaired?I can have the whole thing done for about $450 at macservice.com, but would hope to sell it off for at least $900, meaning I would make $450 as opposed to $400, which isn't really worth the hassle to me.
Should I try selling it on ebay with a cracked screen? Get it repaired and THEN go on ebay? is there a way to get it repaired for cheaper?
many thanks...
iBook 1.42 GHz G4 (1.5) 14" Mac OS X (10.4.5) 80GB; 512GB RAM;

Although some people speak of limited response or little action from
individual instances of their results from contacting AppleCare about
repairs for situations such as your iBookG4 14's display damage,
have you tried talking to someone at Apple about your situation and
how this odd damage came to pass; from just having the computer
sitting asleep for some time, then turning it on to find the crack in there?
Seems to me if it was still running due to some other problem, the heat
from the closed display (though you thought it was asleep, maybe it was
going defective in another way and overheated, too?) cracked the panel.
You may have to ask around, politely, to see if you can talk to someone
in Sales Support if you get a blank wall in AppleCare service support. If
you have the additional coverage of the AppleCare Protection Plan, that
gives you the up to 3 years of phone-in support (and troubleshooting, etc)
along with the additional years of hardware repairs, to three years, too.
The contact numbers in the Apple web site have changed somewhat in
the past two years; you may find Sales Support numbers in your original
documentation, and this may get you around the charge to talk to some
one about a repair when you really want to be assured you can get it
repaired when it appears to have overheated while asleep and when you
woke it up, the display was damaged... While it was sitting, all the while;
and not mistreated in any way... You've posted on this matter before;
but you did not say if you had any contact with someone in authority at
Apple Support or Apple Sales Support. Best of luck in this matter!

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