I don't know if it will help as you hope or not but I am sure-r it would have helped much more if you would have posted that information, for instance, in the blog or in the OP. No need to keep it under wraps, is there?
You only write and don't read. I remember the dev posted about the payments on this forum.
We posted about the payments 3 times in the last 4 weeks in this thread to explain what was paid and why.