I've seen a lot of posts on here about scams... Trusting of 'friends' who end up doing the dash with your gear... But I've not taken 'total' heed of these posts..
I've lent out a few 'decent' items or those which used to be deemed decent... Yet as opposed to the posts I've seen here to the negative, they've all managed to boomerang back to me in due course...
I know this seems a rather pointless post, but I hope to balance out the negativity a little for newer members to the forum, that not all friends you loan stuff to in PL are out to 'scam' your hard gotten gains out of you....