To me, it sounds like a stalling tactic..."I'll need $35.00/hr. to take and send pictures."
The ball is in your court...
You send the $35.00 for the pics to be taken and sent.
Two things are possible...
#1.) Seller takes pics and sends them...you're out the $35.00 before you even know what the parts look like or even if they are the right ones...
#2.) You're taken...there were no PARTS to begin with, the "seller" has $35.00 of yours, and where do you go from there?
Tell the seller to grab some tin-foil and practice that long-ago-forgotten art of rectal-origami. Then, like Army said, follow it up with a sincere attempt at "cranial upitis rectumus" to be followed with a size-12 boot.
Make sure he has a 55-gallon drum of Preparation-H on the side.
($35.00/hr. my @55!!!) 