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@rat-racer
'Dude', I'm sorry but that's total horseshit. I didn't 'feel the need' to short change you, I was running a little late to collect and offered you £71 out of the £75 agreed - all I had on me - which you accepted. I also offered to walk up to the nearby cashpoint for the remaining few quid, but you declined. And in my messages I said I'd happily see you right for that £4 when I picked up the lever.
Frankly, given the condition of the stuff you were selling, even £70 would have been a good deal for you. I certainly did not rip you off. Or be 'cheeky' or whatever you'd prefer to call it. I have bought and sold lots of stuff on this forum without a single problem (and, since we're on the subject, I donate to it, too).
And if that £4 was the reason you decided to deliberately not include the lever (which it seems you are implying in your illiterate little stream of consciousness above) then why not reply to any one of my messages and let me know? You were active enough on the forum to do it. The 'barrage' you refer to was a very polite PM, a similarly friendly note on the original post and text message or two over the following few weeks. If you'd just got back to me and explained it was an honest mistake and you were screwed for cash I would have happily let it go.
As for the laughable suggestion of a 'forum campaign' you are joking, right? All I did was mention what happened in one or two posts, in the spirit of the forum, so the same thing didn't happen to anyone else. I gave you plenty of time to respond to me before I did this and, once again, had you bothered to get back to me, it wouldn't have happened.
Oh, and finally, 'city boy'. Lots of people spend a long time as students and live with all the associated debt. Me included. And they don't walk around whining on like a failing charity. Despite this, keep your lever (I bought another one during your long silence), maybe sell it and put the cash towards your graduation or something.