then you have every possible chance.
I think that is a very smug attitude to take. This would not be your bait hive(s). You know nothing of the circumstances of the poster - whether there is no beekeeper, within 3 miles, or thirty of them, dotted around doing all their proper artificial swarming, all with their most attractive bait hives located at their best positions available.
No, you may be lucky. Some may put out a bait hive and never attract a swarm. Especially if it is simply treated like a discarded cardboard box with no thought of sensibly choosing the optimum location. I sincerely hope the poster ignores your haphazard (but in your case, successful) efforts. Your method simply does not offer the best chance of attracting a swarm for most new beeks, and as such, it is most certainly wrong to claim that it does, in the circumstances, of which you do not have a clue.
You say 'every chance'. I for one would disagree; 'a chance' would be more appropriate and 'a small chance' may be much nearer the truth.
RAB
I do believe you could write in a much nicer tone and manner.
For all the good advice you so often give, many a time, there is an indignant tone in your replies, when you disagree with something.
No I don't know of the location.
Of course every situation, in every single poster's question is different, everytime.
I thought that premise underlined every response.
I added my experience. The bees just come to me.
With so many bees about the place, all over the country now and with so many new beekeepers, I believe the chances are higher than they have ever been.
I just added from my experience what I believe could happen.
The poster is quite welcome to discard or take what I write.
I never intended to be 'smug'.
Just for me, it has been very simple.
Every year.
And all I can do is speak for myself.
I thought every reply was indicative of that.
I never intended to 'mislead' anybody.
Edit - Indeed in my response to another thread later on, I made explicit mention of the need to account for location and circumstance in any situation, see:
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=89746&postcount=75