What colour Strats are the easiest, and the hardest, to sell?

meltedbuzzbox

I would be interested to see peoples age in this thread. 

I think some of the more "senior" members have chromophobia.

littlethoughts

WezV said:

both get lots of likes and the colour seems to appeal to at least 25% of fender fans, but probably gets brought by less than 1%.  quite a lot just like a standard colour more, or realize a more standard one will be easier to move on, or lack the confidence to be a real man with a purpley pink guitar

 

You know it. If I ever see the J Mascis Jazzmaster in purple flake go second hand for the right price (i.e., not £200 more than a not-purple one) I'll be all over it.

fretfinder

meltedbuzzbox;184789" said:

I would be interested to see peoples age in this thread. 

I think some of the more "senior" members have chromophobia.

I think the messaging here has become somewhat confused between what colours sell more/less easily, and what colours people like. The former was the question originally asked, and age shouldn't impact that too much. It may be that younger people are more likely to like guitars in lurid colours, but if you were to average it out I think it would hold true that Strats in 'normal' colours sell fine, and those in the 'rare' colours generally take longer to shift or need reduced pricing to move.

meltedbuzzbox

fretfinder said:

meltedbuzzbox;184789" said:

I would be interested to see peoples age in this thread. 

I think some of the more "senior" members have chromophobia.

I think the messaging here has become somewhat confused between what colours sell more/less easily, and what colours people like. The former was the question originally asked, and age shouldn't impact that too much. It may be that younger people are more likely to like guitars in lurid colours, but if you were to average it out I think it would hold true that Strats in 'normal' colours sell fine, and those in the 'rare' colours generally take longer to shift or need reduced pricing to move.

there is no fun in being sensible about it :-P

Clingy

I am 57 and have recently purchased a pink strat.  I am sure it will be difficult to sell if I ever wanted to.  Sad really, that colour appears to be more important than tone, it was easily the best sounding one of approximately 50 I have tried over last couple of years.

I guess it is like the advice you get when selling your house...paint it all magnolia!  Yet living in such a house would be pretty awful.  Again perhaps I am unusual in that I like colour, strong bold colours.  Yet most don't, just look at cars on the road.  Most are pretty boring with grey being one of the most popular, along with black!

Neil

I guess for general resale you are best off with the boring colours, red, black, white or sunburst.

Personally with the outrageous '50's design of the Strat I think they look best in '50's car type pastels.

Metallic (CAR) and flake colours do look good and evoke the Californian hot rod colours of the period.

I am a big fan of Chartreuse green that is found on the Dick Dale signature model.

Gorgeous!

Bellycaster

How about this one @Bucket

http://www.ruokangas.com/?p=11499

I'm not shamelessly touting Ruokangas, I would actually have a Guitar in this "Bad Absinthe" Colour. Check the Guitar Builder feature, some nice Greens on there as well as lots of other splendid colours and finishes, it's a great toy to mess with anyway.

I'm not keen on 7 stringers though.

Bucket

The colour's quite cool, not sure about the fretboard.

That sparkly green Strat above though... oh my.