Well I kinda get where Tony is coming from. He's not keeping a secret to be an asshole. It's just how he happens to pay his bills, so it's probably not the best idea to give all the details. He is usually pretty helpful if you're buying stuff though, it just comes with it's limits.
People call me all the time to look at their jobs, I get to the house and they are fucked up half way through and they want me to take an hour off from being paid doing production, so that I can drive an hour to their home to walk them through the job and then go home empty handed. So I get it.
Matt, have you tried speaking with CamATV?