i bought a WP theme on themeforest and it looks different to the preview i saw, i'm sure it's just me not knowing how to set it all up since i'm new but if someone knows of any tutorials or can offer help (willing to pay) i'd appreciate it.
You can contact the designer of that theme on themeforest and ask him for support. But I think you will also find someone who could help you here on DP forum. If no one replies to your thread here, try posting in the programming forum: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103
Every Themeforest theme that I have purchased comes with a folder of instructions or DOC's. Some designers also answer support questions in the theme comments, or have a 3rd party support system set up. What is the theme? I've purchased many from there over the years. I may have worked with it before, or something else from that designer.
Any Premium WordPress Theme should come with a detailed tutorial. Have you gone through the tutorials doc that came with the theme? You should get support from the designer/s usually in a forum or somewhere. Get in touch with ThemeForest, I'm sure they'd tell you the right place to get help from.
A lot of times with ThemeForest themes, the developers create a the demo website with custom code. If you look in your zip file that you got from ThemeForest you may find an "examples" folder which will have some txt files in there. If you copy and paste the custom code in those text files to a page in WP then you will get the same result as the demo site.
Go through the help files (it must be in the downloaded folder) while setting up site on your server. If it still not solve your problem, contact the seller/designer of theme through themeforest.