Well, good news, Carl's brother Graham (Fraser9764) has been made aware of the situation and kindly refunded both D1CKY and myself for our parts out of his own pocket. The parts do infact exist, but understandably neither of us now want them.
Still not heard a thing from Carl, he can burn alive as far as I'm concerned, but his brother is a good lad.
Thanks again Graham, hope you get some sense into the boy.