Best Colors for resale value?

[Kenv]

No...I hear ya Charles. You don't have to explain why you do it....I get that. I just find it amusing that so many do do it. When's the last time Nautique had Teal...1989??? And Pink is usually reserved for a female team rider....not too many out there. So if all the other colors are so "undesirable"....why even make them available. Because people like them...and to match their football teams....lol

[Evening Shade]

For what its worth, here is the GS20 that we ordered. We went with the Red, White and Black. The things to note: we went with the black hull as our experience is that a white hull becomes off-yellow if it stays in the water (and ours does) whereas the black doesn't show the scum/discolorization as much. We went with the Surf platform graphics but deleted the decal (again to keep it timeless). Also, the hull metal flake red is much darker than the pictures (more of a blood red). Finally, we avoided black on the platform and rear vertical surfaces because our experience with a sport 200 is that black badly shows water spots - hence the white. The "lower deck" is black metal flake (doesn't show waterspots as bad). The black chrome looked great on the showroom floor.

A GS20 is what I'm planning to order as well. Unfortunately your pics aren't showing up.

[Ironman97459]

My old boat had "resale" colors and I hated it. To boring. So I ordered what I wanted and when the day comes to sell it then I'll worry about it.
My pick is the black/metallic Grey/sublime green but I'm biased.


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[Beg4wake]

You can never go wrong with the reds and whites.....ONLY downside to boats like that, is that when you do try to sell, you may be competing with a ton of other boats with the same basic color scheme. Sometimes a unique boat sells more quickly than basic boats....as long as they're done tastefully!

[swc5150]

I had my teal/pink Prostar on the market for 1 1/2 years, without one interested party due to color. I was, however, told more times than I care to remember "if only it wasn't teal, we'd take it". It took the dealer another year and a deep discount to get it off the lot. An out-of-vogue color boat will indeed sell at some point, but it could take a while, and you could lose your butt on it $$. People can do what they want, but lesson learned for me.

[charlesml3]

I had my teal/pink Prostar on the market for 1 1/2 years, without one interested party due to color. I was, however, told more times than I care to remember "if only it wasn't teal, we'd take it". It took the dealer another year and a deep discount to get it off the lot. An out-of-vogue color boat will indeed sell at some point, but it could take a while, and you could lose your butt on it $$. People can do what they want, but lesson learned for me.

Did you consider just getting it wrapped? Obviously you'd want to disclose that to the buyer, but I'd think that if the boat was in good shape I probably wouldn't object to it being wrapped to cover an out-of-style color scheme.

-Charles

[swc5150]

Did you consider just getting it wrapped? Obviously you'd want to disclose that to the buyer, but I'd think that if the boat was in good shape I probably wouldn't object to it being wrapped to cover an out-of-style color scheme.

-Charles

It was 1995, so not an option at the time. Of course, it wouldn't have hidden the pink and teal striped interior. It looked so cool to us in year 1, but dang it was ugly every season after.

[Evening Shade]

My old boat had "resale" colors and I hated it. To boring. So I ordered what I wanted and when the day comes to sell it then I'll worry about it.
My pick is the black/metallic Grey/sublime green but I'm biased.


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I will definitely pick colors that I like, but that's part of the problem. I like so many colors and color combos. I probably have over 25 GS20s designed on Design Your Nautique. I was just looking for direction from the Nautique Nation on which direction to go with colors. I can't decide because I like all of the ones I've picked out.

[charlesml3]

. It looked so cool to us in year 1, but dang it was ugly every season after.

Ha! Ha! Yea, I bet it was. Got any photos of it still?

-Charles

[Kenv]

My brother had one of the ugliest Ski Centurion Tru Tracks out there....orange/brown/white. Boat looked crazy Cali style but man....that boat was a running beast. Commander 351....no problems footin' behind that thing. It just hurt to look at.