frekin: Having personally met Patrick, and knowing him from this BBS years prior, I can assure you that he's a trustworthy person. Well, in addition to being one of the coolest and most interesting human beings on the planet. You have nothing to worry about in terms of your money going to waste.

However, you should check to make sure that emails aren't getting lost in transit, for instance, perhaps he has responded to you but they are bouncing for some reason, or you have some kind of spam-filtering in place that is shunting the messages into a "bulk mail" folder that you need to check.