I ended up ordering the 20 dollar battery someone linked to on eBay above, having it sent to my mom, and then having my mom pop another 25 bucks to send it to me.
I guess I will still buy a Nexus since I have just replaced both my 8Gb units with 32Gb ones. Now I have two spare batteries anyways!
I do hate the way it is so hard to get things serviced these days, another by product of our throw away society I guess. It is not practical to fix things anymore, it is cheaper to replace them.