No offense taken twobob
I knew it was a risky attempt, when I ordered I had no idea that the seller would be shortsighted to ship the kindles with little protection.
What puzzles me that there is zero response from the screen (no flash, no nothing).
From my experience with broken LCDs(I've broken a few) and seeing other broken Kindle listings on ebay, you would expect to see some vertical or horizontal lines or something like that.
As it is it just shows the frozen welcome screen and that is all.
Maybe just a wire is loose that is all ? *wisheful thinking*
Another fun tidbit: the screen smells like it was cleaned by some cheap men's perfume