Stuck Home Button on iPod 4

My Home button is stuck and unresponsive. It's been a little sticky and slightly unresponsive all this year but now it just won't do anything. It was fine Friday but Saturday morning (today), it was unresponsive. I'm going to Apple tomorrow and hopefully won't have to rip one of their "geniuses" a new one for being a useless hipster (I apologize for the rant). If I have to send it in, how much will it be? I already dropped $200 for this thing and I know the warranty is already out. I have tried other simple fixes that are supposed to help make it at the very least responsive (open iOS app, hold power & Home, etc) but they didn't work. Any estimates on the cost of sending it in? And does anyone know of a possible company that could do it cheaper (in the Atlanta area)? So frustrated by this.

Try:
fix for Home button
Fix a broken, unresponsive or sticky iPhone Home Button
- If you have iOS 5 and later you can turn on Assistive Touch it add the Home and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch
- If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for:
Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing
- There are third-party places like the following that will repair the Home button. Google for more.
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