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Decided to go for a spin to the Pembrokeshire BKA auction today (not to buy anything mind you!)
Interesting prices, and quite a few people walked away with a bargain - and quite a few mugs paid stupid money for rubbish.
Thirty lots of bees and no really high prices - bees on frames started with £145 and £155 paid for an eight and seven frame nuc respectively - the first with 6 frames of brood, the second seven, four very strong brood and a halfs went for £180 to £200, then prices dropped a little with hives with between 7 and 9 frames of BIAS going for £125 to £170.finishing off with 'lively' colonies going for £70/80 (all with at least 9 frames BIAS
Bees being sold with hives were cheaper! at around £110 to £130 (with half filled honey supers!) with one going for £70 (touch of chalk brood) I can tell you my bidding finger twitched quite a few times!
Highlight of the day though was watching the bidding go bonkers on a manky old galvanised 4 frame radial extractor, the bloke next to me was laughing like a drain and when I commented on the fact it was a very expensive garden ornament (hammer fell at £130.00) he confessed it was his lot - as a newbie naiively bought it last year for a few quid not realising he couldn't sell any honey extracted with it, he was hoping to get a few quid back today towards a new extrector, two lots further on he bought a nice clean PVC extractor for fourty quid!!!!
And me? well I held on until the end for an old bee book I'd fancied and was beaten by a little old lady who was determined to have it (it was getting a little pricey, even for a 1912 first edition) but though I'd try and get one of the three rather nice frame exhibiting cases on offer (I've got one, but a second would be handy in the Royal Welsh) Noone bid for the first one, so the auctioneer accepted my cheeky £5.00 offer, then I got the next two for the same price! three very nice frame display cases (with glass) for fifteen quid.
Teifiside auction next week
although I'll have to outsmart MBC and the AMM taliban! 
Interesting prices, and quite a few people walked away with a bargain - and quite a few mugs paid stupid money for rubbish.
Thirty lots of bees and no really high prices - bees on frames started with £145 and £155 paid for an eight and seven frame nuc respectively - the first with 6 frames of brood, the second seven, four very strong brood and a halfs went for £180 to £200, then prices dropped a little with hives with between 7 and 9 frames of BIAS going for £125 to £170.finishing off with 'lively' colonies going for £70/80 (all with at least 9 frames BIAS
Bees being sold with hives were cheaper! at around £110 to £130 (with half filled honey supers!) with one going for £70 (touch of chalk brood) I can tell you my bidding finger twitched quite a few times!
Highlight of the day though was watching the bidding go bonkers on a manky old galvanised 4 frame radial extractor, the bloke next to me was laughing like a drain and when I commented on the fact it was a very expensive garden ornament (hammer fell at £130.00) he confessed it was his lot - as a newbie naiively bought it last year for a few quid not realising he couldn't sell any honey extracted with it, he was hoping to get a few quid back today towards a new extrector, two lots further on he bought a nice clean PVC extractor for fourty quid!!!!
And me? well I held on until the end for an old bee book I'd fancied and was beaten by a little old lady who was determined to have it (it was getting a little pricey, even for a 1912 first edition) but though I'd try and get one of the three rather nice frame exhibiting cases on offer (I've got one, but a second would be handy in the Royal Welsh) Noone bid for the first one, so the auctioneer accepted my cheeky £5.00 offer, then I got the next two for the same price! three very nice frame display cases (with glass) for fifteen quid.
Teifiside auction next week
although I'll have to outsmart MBC and the AMM taliban!
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