The guy said he was going away the following week and I was out and about for the last 2 days of that week, so thought I'd be doing the right thing by getting it shipped out that very day so he'd have it no more than 48hrs later. Sure, it was a risk doing things that way round, but he sounded very sincere and told me that he'd already made a BACS payment and even told me what reference he'd put with it so I'd know what the payment was. As said, I've very often sent good out before I've received payment (unless it's a something especially valuable) and never once been stung.

I don't have his full address to hand, but still have the courier documents with it all on.

All I know off the top of my head is that the postcode starts IV (Inverness?) and is very far North in Scotland, and looking at maps it appears pretty remote. Think the name of the place was something like "Maryburgh"?