Hi All I have tried to convert these prices to US$ for convenience. Roof US$3.00 Roof plus tin top 5.60 Super chamber 2.86 10 super frames 3.00 Brood Chamber 6.40 10 Brood Frames 3.80 Floor Board 3.00 queen excluder (for those interested in getting them for african bees they are a differenct size, (a bit smaller) so only for those in the south US I geuss) 5.79 porter bee escapes 1.50 nine frame spacers 0.43 smokers 210mm fire box 21.00 bee brushes (I have one of these. They are made out of some or other beautiful tropical wood and are incredibly soft in the brush sense) 4.04 Bee gloves (I also have a set of these and they are made with that old time craftmanship that one only sees in places like Zim nowadays, where somebody can spend three hours making a glove type of thing) 8.25 Bee proof veils 17.00 Jacket to go with veil 12.38 This veil and jacket system work in an interesting way with a hardhat as the top of the veil and a very tight attachment system to get the jacket to fit. I know that the jacket was inspired after the designer, Zimbabwes Chief Apiculturist had an incident in which his veil slipped during treatment of some hives which had tasted a bit of crop dusting. He picked up in excess of 50 stings to the neck and vowed to develop a genuinely bee proof veil. The only downside of this veil is that it gets very hot inside the gauze as the heat from your chest floats up and anybody that uses glasses comes under strain as they fog up. hive tools 7.53 catch boxes (5 frame nucs actually) 10.90 strip eyelets (1100 to a kg) 11.42 a kg brood wax per 10 sheets 7.89 And here's a funny bit: Bees wax blocks (1 oz) 0.44 but casting and cleaning one ounce beeswax blocks costs 1.19 a kg? These wax products are however not really suitable for people raising european bees as the cell size is a bit wrong. The bees will draw it but you will have funny size bees. They offer an export discount of 10% as well. Out of interest I phoned the railways to find out how much it would cost to get the stuff the two thousand odd kilometers from Harare too any of our bigger ports here in SA and they will be getting back too me at some point. Still have to find out what the shipping costs are but this seems more complex that it used too be. I know we once sent a rail crate to canada and that was quite easy. Looking at the prices in US$ I really wished I earned in US$. Wow. I actually think these prices are quite expensive in some ways compared to making ones own equipment. I find that to make a hive, excluding labour costs and frames with wax costs me about US$2.60 (we have a small sawmill nearby and I make the aluminium cover out of aluminium printing sheets from the local printers which cost justabout nothing.) The wax pays foor itself, because to get one out of three swarms one has to remove a lot of comb with it and that comb melted down and milled does the new hives demand. So that's what it costs to set up a hive here for me excluding the labour costs and the cost of driving around to get the bees. In Rand it looks far more expensive. Keep well and I hope this is of interest. Would be interesting to see what the costs are for bits and pieces elsewhere as well. These are for standard langstroth hives. Garth --- Garth Cambray Kamdini Apiaries 15 Park Road Apis melifera capensis Grahamstown 800ml annual precipitation 6139 Eastern Cape South Africa Phone 27-0461-311663 3rd year Biochemistry/Microbiology Rhodes University In general, generalisations are bad. Interests: Flii's and Bees.