I can't decide if you're truly as naive/gullible as your sounding, or you're simply being out and out dishonest.
If you really believe that your "friend" has nothing but good intentions but made an "honest mistake" as you put it elsewhere, you're just plain stupid or in denial.
In either case, he has a terrible reputation (deservedly so), and if you had any brains, you would distance yourself from him...particularly if you plan on being active in B/S/T. Like it or not, you being so adamant in defense of him puts you in the position of being associated with him. In fact, you defend him waaaaay more than he does himself. It's just shady man, and most kids on here aren't in a position to watch a few hundred dollars disappear and be straight after.
Maybe YOUR gear would get a bit more attention/interest if you weren't constantly rationalizing/justifying the behavior of someone else who's clearly taken advantage of other people. Hell, you might not even have to bump your own thread every hour....
Just read the fucking PMs man.
You have to be young for you to be "being such a good friend". As you get older, you'll realize how much time you pissed away hanging around a bunch of lowlives. That's assuming of course, that you're not a low life yourself.