What price a complete Craven luggage set?

I dunno, but I do know I sold a single Craven topbox for £110 the summer
before last.

At Kempton Park today, I saw a complete three-piece Craven set (panniers
and topbox) in incredible condition, complete with al the mounts,
frames, brackets and even with all the little rubber grommets in place.
Black, too, the best colour.

I reckoned the stallholder knew his onions, because there wasn't a price
on it, so I asked how much he wanted for it. It turned out that (IMHO)
he didn't know what it was worth, because I got it for £110.

Seat of the pants says £250-300, though it could go for much, much more.
It'll be on eBay tomorrow night, so we'll see.

It wasn't the bargain of the day, though - that was the stallholder who
sold a complete serviceable-looking Honda CT70 (the rare US-market trail
version of the Dax)....

....for £35. The bloke who was pushing it away looked dazed.

 

On 18 Sep, 19:19, (The Older Gentleman)
wrote:
..

Prace bets now, I say shock of the year, £550

Honda CT70 (the rare US-market trail

Bloody hell well done that man

Boxerboy

 

We'll see. Here it is on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260666289814

 

How did you get the large pictures underneath the description?

 

Insert into the item description, at the bottom, this:

<img src="(your picture hosting url)">

In the case of that auction, the five pic urls look like this:

<p><p>
<img src="http://www.neil_murray.fastmail.fm/Craven1.jpg">
<p><p>
<p><p>
<img src="http://www.neil_murray.fastmail.fm/Craven2.jpg">
<p><p>
<p><p>
<img src="http://www.neil_murray.fastmail.fm/Craven3.jpg">
<p><p>
<p><p>
<img src="http://www.neil_murray.fastmail.fm/Craven4.jpg">
<p><p>
<p><p>
<img src="http://www.neil_murray.fastmail.fm/Craven5.jpg">

 

Is there an additional charge?

 

No. Your own picture hosting is completely free.

 

10 decent 1024x768 pics of the K should look quite good and give buyers
confidence to bid big!

 

Works for me. I size my pix to 14"[1] across, in landscape format. And
use plenty of them.

It entices bidders, and (crucially) it prevents people from saying: "Oh,
well, I didn't see that in the pictures..."


[1] Real Money. I don't count in pixels or millimetres.

 

Really? Oh well. Ta. I set the res for 72dpi and the image size in
inches. Still seems to come out OK.

 

Thus spake The Older Gentleman () unto the assembled multitudes:

Very useful and informative website about this kind of stuff at
http://www.scantips.com/

(NB it's not just about scanning, but "most of it is a basic primer on
digital images in general")

 

Always trust the seat of the pants. It went for £261.

What was utterly amazing was this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260666577185 I paid £3 for it at the last Kempton
Park jumble....