Agree Out of interest - when parked up do you tend to remove your panniers? I have an st3 and they are locked onto the bike?
I only use panniers when on a trip. i then remove them if I haven't used the liner bags, or if we are heading out and won't need them. never personally had a problem in over 10 years of trips, although some mates had their top boxes broken into during the night when in France last year.
Wat ever happened to those exhausts that were pinched from a member on heres bike, they then saw them on ebay? iirc, he tipped the seller off by saying they were his!
Yep id agree that is well dodgy. "lost" key? personally wouldnt touch these with a barge pole no matter how cheap!
"Selling them for a friend" in itself is not necessarily dodgy, but that AND without keys certainly is...!