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Kind of an informal poll, so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post or not?

I want to buy and then immediately resell a helmet.
Which of these two color schemes do you think will be easier to resell?

Not always easy to resell helmets, people usually want to try them on first.
Neither are particularly attractive, ye canny beat plain white

Bell Helmets are easy to flip? Never knew that. I would think its much easier to sell the black white red one.

I have flipped used Givi top cases before but helmets are a different game. If its used forget it. Hope to get anything for it.

Not really trying to flip it. I'll actually be selling it at a loss, but it will be an overall gain for me in the end.
It will be New-In-Box and never worn, so I'm going to ask about 65% of the current new price just to move it.
Unfortunately, those are the only two color choices for the most common head size. (Thanks for the color vote 87112)

My personal choice is red, white & black. No other reason than I like that combination, but believe it would be most popular..

Decided to dress up my Arai helmet a bit.
I just love DOT reflective tape.

Decided to dress up my Arai helmet a bit.
I just love DOT reflective tape.

Both clever and informative!

It will make drivers pause for concern. . ."Intensive Care Unit" or "I See You".

It sort of gets the cards out on the table. . ..

I did something similar to my hi-viz helmet by placing a strip of red reflective tape on the back of it. I also added red reflective tape triangles to the back of my top box.

Did you buy the triangles already made? I see that some of you have the European police and safety tape on your bikes. Good way to be noticed. I have to wonder how effective that would be in the United States. Drivers are blind here.

No, I cut them out of a 2" wide roll of reflective tape. The Shad box has two flat areas flanking the release latch. These are at a good angle for reflecting back at drivers, so I put tape on them. :-) They're pretty small (1"x1-1/2") but they're two more bright spots on my behind.
I might also add tape to the rim of the topbox platform. That will wrap around the back and both sides for better visibility. The rim is 1/2" wide, so the tape will need to be 3/8". But again, it's another bright red stripe.

Eiron ,
My preference would be the White /Black /Red helmet. Think having a lot of pattern on a helmet is a personal thing, you might want to do the colour coordinate thing!! Sold a few helmets myself but they have been plain Black - Silver and White. Think any helmet will sell over time, try and sell when the biking season starts, good luck.

Thanks Docscooter2010, I ended up buying the w/b/r helmet to resell. It had the Transitions visor that I wanted, but the visor alone was $139 and this helmet was clearanced for $129 (with the Transitions visor!).
I was able to sell the helmet in about two weeks for $60 with my clear visor advertised on it.

Not bad! I love my Transitions visor on my 'city' Bell lid, need one for the Shoei still.

It was your recommendation that motivated me to get one.
And I recently saw a vendor offering just the visor for around $90, too!
My realization from all of this is that I bought my helmet at the wrong time of year. When I bought my Qualifier ($110) the "Deluxe" version with better design/features and a Transitions visor was about twice as expensive. Only three months later the "Deluxe" helmets had dropped to nearly the same price as the "standard" model that I had bought!!

Don't want to sound thick , but is a Transition visor one that goes dark when the sunlight hits it , as you would see in spectical s . Never seen one before but they sound good . My Helmet has a drop down internal tinted visor , Makes you look like an F16 fighter pilot .

Yes, exactly.
Your internal visor sounds like a great idea! (My helmet wouldn't retrofit one of those.) Does it reduce internal cooling airflow when it's retracted?

Eiron , The helmet I have at the moment is made by Shox , the drop down visor is good when its warm but does tend to fog in cooler weather but I crack the main visor and use anti fog spray . I think Duchinni do the drop down visor as well , I've had a couple of them over the years .Not sure if they keep you any cooler but may be better than wearing sunglasses while riding