My Buttons are not working ☹️

Hello everyone,

I recently bought an iPod Classic 7th gen off eBay, everything works just fine except for the clickwheel buttons and center button. It scrolls perfectly, but when I try to press the buttons to the next song or the menu, etc. It doesn’t do anything.

I have already replaced the click wheel itself, but the problem persists. What could it be?

While replacing the clickwheel I made sure that I could hear the click, and I did. Buttons click fine, but don’t actually do anything, sometimes they work if I press them ridiculously hard but sometimes not even that works.