I'm after some advice here.

A few months back now I sold a couple of parts on another forum and arranged to have the parts sent via courier. Now the guy told me he would transfer the funds over to me and I'd receive it on the thursday (it was monday/tuesday at the time).

Now the courier I used had a slot for that day, but nothing for a few days after, and I was going to be away for a while after then, so I thought ok, I'll trust the guy (with hindsight not a wise move, but in 7 years of using forums I've always been like this and never had a bad experience, and am very trusting) and had the stuff collected and off to him the same day.

No funds appear, so I get in touch. He apologises and says he must have copied my bank details down wrong, so I send them again. 2 weeks later, still no funds. Tries again, 3 weeks later and still no funds.

So then he says ok, he'll send a cheque, so I send him my address and months later, still nothing and now he doesn't reply to any contact.

The forum in question have been unhelpful with previous attempts to help out, so I've not tried them this time, and the guy is 500 miles away from me!

It's only £50 (he did say he'd sent me £75 as a gesture to him messing me around, but never did!)

The money doesn't bother me, but I don't like anyone like that getting one over on me