Gotta say that my Keystone Acro is one of the best snares I've played. $75.00 at Starving Musician in Santa Cruz. Just get to like it more every time I use it. Does anything I'll ever need.

Saw a pic of Steve Jordan's kit at the Crossroads Guitar Fest. He had an Acro with his Yamaha kit.....

I just bought a nice blue/olive badge Acrolite off cl for $45.

I think all the good press that Acros have received on drum forums and such in the last decade or so probably has increased demand and therefore the price has crept up as well, especially in sales venues where educated buyers (and sellers) congregate.

But there are a whole lot of these out there in the world, thousands of them, so if you bide your time you can still find them cheap if you look in the right places. Thrift stores, garage sales, etc. Places where the seller doesn't do any research, or just wants it gone.

My local music stores tend to price these right around $100, sometimes $75, which, although not the $35-$50 deals of yore, is still pretty reasonable for what you get.

And it's humorous that Ludwig now wants buyers to spend upwards of $300 for a modern day Acrolite.

Ludwig, sometimes tends to, ahem, "overprice" their merchandise. Case in point, the

reissue Acrolite. I picked up a 1971 for $100, and it came with it's original "UFO" red velvet plush interior case, complete with "Peace and Love" and "No more war" stickers all over it, and some city stickers as well.. I should have kept it to decorate my gear room, but i sold it, which i now regret doing. But as many have stated, you can still find many for under $100.. They're always popping up.. $400 US for a reissue is in my humble opinion, ridiculous ...

Plus the vintage ones have character.. I personally think are better constructed, and less "beefy"..

Funny, I was just thinking about this. I found two on CL today in my area, one was asking $245 and the other $250, both are 1980's models. Unreal imo. A couple of months ago I missed out on a mint 65 for $100...arghhhhhhh. One of the drum vlog guys I follow on You Tube posted a video of him getting a late 70's one for $22 at Goodwill. Score for him!

The last few I got:

68 Keystone - Thrown in with a trade deal.

80's B/O - Bought for $60 on eBay with stand, case, sticks, books.

90's Blacro - Bought for $50 on CL with WFL stand.

To be fair, all of these were deals where the people really did not know what they had. For every one good deal I get I pass up tons of others that are priced closer to where they should be. I still semi-regularly see 70's and 80's Acros on CL for around or under $100. However, I do agree that the average price on an average Acro is increasing. Lets face it, 2017 means we are only three years away from being 50 years old. I'm sure some of you remember it like it was yesterday? :)

In the past year or so I've bought 4 Acros. One was a 66 Keystone that came with Rogers Kit for a 100, that was a big score. The other 3 were late 70s CL/Garage sale finds all for under a 100. I kept the keystone and one of the ugly 70s and sold the other two on Reverb. One just sold today for 185 , the other went for 200 on reverb, both were in excellent to near mint condition.

I have noticed that buyers definitely pay more on Reverb than they do ebay, no idea why. Both drums were up for less than 24 hours and went for the asking price. Demand seems to be on the rise. I never pass when I see one for around that 100 dollar price point, I know I'll be able to make a few bucks when I'm done with it.

I know what you mean. I picked a '71 Acro up a few years ago at a small music store in Jasper, TX for $45 with case and stand base (basket was gone). Anyway, it was 100% original...at least the heads and wires appeared to be early 70s. I tuned it up and played it out a few times. No surprise, it sounded great. However, I already had a '67 Acro, so I decided to sell the '71 a few months later. I only got $90 for it. But, like you said, prices were lower a few years ago.

Lynn