For Sale National Hive with 2008 Q and bees across 11 frames south Bucks

[sherwood]

For sale
National

 

[VEG]

Price?

 

[sherwood]

Sorry didnt quite finish the above.
Newly assembled National Hive
roof, crownboard,2 supers,QX metal slotted,Brood box, OMF floor complete with fiesty colony of bees. Already filled 1 & 1/2 supers and had an artificial swarm pulled off of them. All frames and wax are either new this year or last year
Honey is not included in the sale.

 

[Poly Hive]

LOL at feisty.. so is that the reason for selling them?

And what price?

PH

 

[Frisbee]

Price?

Frisbee

 

[sherwood]

Not so fiesty since the artificial swarm price, in fact quite reasonable unlike the 2nd hive who are fiesty and followers.
Price £300 ono.
These are not mine, but bees I have been looking after for a beekeeper who is giving up.

 

[Poly Hive]

crikey@£300.

12 Nats for sale! LOL

PH

 

[VEG]

Good luck selling them at that price

 

[BKF Admin]

I realise that the price is a good £100 up on what most of us will pay but I inspected a hive a couple of days back that had 11 frames in a brood box with 3 supers and comb included.

If someone is new to beekeeping and has no bee's and lives within a short distance then they will pay the price.

Price paid for the hive I inspected: £300

 

[Hivemaker.]

Should sell easily at that price,some people are paying up to £420,with one super.

 

[jimbeekeeper]

I think £300 for what is been offerd is a very good price. People will jump at it.

 

[Poly Hive]

Hmm I see £ signs flashing.

Not that long ago... say 8 years or so National hives in Spring were selling at Roups for £25 - £35.

Times change so they do.

PH

 

[Hivemaker.]

Aye,and you could go to the pictures,have a meal after,do your weeks shopping,buy a new suit,and still have chage out of a farthing.

 

[Poly Hive]

Nope I am quoting real prices here.

Not a Monty Python sketch.

PH

 

[VEG]

Whats a farthing? lol

 

[burch]

ive also seen them selling for £150 but without the supers and the supers and frams dont make up another £150

 

[jimbeekeeper]

This is why hives are been stolen. A trailler full and you have £2 - 3 K for 30 mins work

 

[Haughton Honey]

If you think about it, to buy a new cedar hive, spare supers, frames, foundation, other bits of 'hardware' for about £200 and then a nuc (not a full swarm) at between £100-130 a pop.......£300 is quite reasonable really for what's being offered.

All in my own opinion of course!

 

[Poly Hive]

Spoke to a Bee Farmer this morning and he has suffered just that, 8 Langstroths, a trailer load vanished.

PH

 

[Nellie]

If you think about it, to buy a new cedar hive, spare supers, frames, foundation, other bits of 'hardware' for about £200

You're not far off. My self assembled starter kit (having confirmed with Maisemore that there's wasn't a deal per se) came to £370 odd for:

National Hive (floor, roof, etc etc)
2x supers
Frames and foundation for each
Spacers for supers
suit
2x hive tools
biggest smoker in all the world.
uncapping fork
and a few other bits and bobs

My bees which came with a national hive, spare brood box, 3 supers and a couple of bin bags of grotty frames: £50.

Shop around