ADD: sorry biffa, are you on my ignore for any specific reason?
Dunno mate, did I do something to upset you? We did have a falling out a while back but thought it was resolved

The thing is your mate wasn't asking a question or posing a theory or doing anything customer-like, the mods there probably didn't even know he was a customer, his post looked like an advertisment for spondoolie-tech nothing more.
Those sorts of questions are really more for PM or email with the supplier or over the phone or here rather than in their own commmercial forum.