I was on Craigslist a couple of weeks ago and saw an ad for 4 beehives for $200.I e-mailed back and got a call from a guy who said his father in law had passed away suddenly and they wanted to sell his bees.He said they really just wanted to be rid of them.It took me almost a week to catch up with the guy(he worked nights)and the anticipation about killed me.When I got there he had 6 hives and they were so full of honey that they couldnt be moved.He told me $200 for all of them.I asked about if they had any spare equipment to sell and thats when I met his mother in law.The widow was an old oriental lady and she showed me an extractor and a grocers tank and some other spare hive bodies so I ended up making a deal with her to buy everything for $800.As I started loading it out she kept digging junk out of the basement so by the time she was done I got 6 full hives of bees,a power extractor,a water heated grocers tank,a wire embedder,an electric uncapping knife,about 15 additional complete hives,and 3 complete double deep nucs not to mention about 6 boxes of wax and 60 frames already assembled with wax and a smoker and hive tool and the list keeps going.I flipped her another $100 when I was leaving.I already pulled 15 gallons of honey off of them so I could move them and she even gave me some jars to put it in.I am feeling very blessed.