Well to be honest they look fine to me and at a reasonable price. Longboard bags are not cheap. I was lucky and picked one up of BB for $50 second hand in beautiful condition a while back. Stoked. I have also been making bags for my shortboards and depending on how you do it and if you have material lying around you can make one for $20 minimum - for a longboard probably double it. Mine are not designed for plane travel though as they are the soft material type of construction....but you can personalise them and make them to your won style. These were the first 2 I did as an example - there is a girl in Manly who does awesome custom soft covers who I found out about later.
Actually I remember a thread somewhere that you were saying he actually dropped them off to you - being that he was based in Vicco from memory that is legendary work Mick
handy fella this Ted dude 
