Flow HiveReviews of honeyflow.com

I’m an engineer and have been spending a little time every day for a week trying to assemble it. Still not there. The materials are cheap, the assembly makes IKEA furniture feel like child’s play, and I’m not even sure they’ve successfully assembled one with the materials included.

Purchase 3 times. Two times there was issue with the order. First time, item was missing hardware. Took them over a week to replace it. Second order had missing frame and blamed me for misplacing it. I just open it, show how can I misplaced it. They refused to send the missing parts. Paid over $90. They told me to order it again. Overpriced and poor service. I would not recommend this company. There is better option out there at a much lower price point, and better build quality. Guess WHAT, competitors version isnt MISSING any HARDWARE like FLOW HIVE.

Why would anyone buy them at that price, I’ve been looking at Flow Hive 7 Frames from the UK website and they would cost £415, looked into the prices from overseas and this was the result (from honey flow websites); Cost website origin - converted to GBP €399 EU - £342.23 $599 AU - £345.58 $449 US - £359.26

Misleading marketing targeting people with zero beekeeping experience thinking that a Flow hive is some easy way into beekeeping because you do not disturb the bees. Had a look on their forum and it is obvious that a lot of those that buy Flow hives are clueless and ill prepared for the inspections and commitment needed to keep bees. The only thing different with Flow hives is the harvesting method, and you still have to disturb the bees to make sure honey is fully capped before you harvest because you cannot know from the little plastic window. I ma really annoyed with the ethics of this company, posing as if they are some bee saviours when in reality most of their customers are increasing the chances of spreading diseases if they are not 100% vigilant. I am by the way one of the original crowd funding supporters and bought two hives but wouldn't have bought if I knew about the way they were going to conduct their cheesy marketing. I'm not a supporter anymore.

Poor quality control. I paid four times as much to get the original from Flow not the Chinese version. I had a lot of issues with poorly made wooden ware. The Flow frames sagged with the weight of honey and leaked on the brood box and queen. All the wires came loose. Queen excluder is made of the cheapest plastic similar to the eBay ones. Within a year it broke apart and am lucky it didn’t let the queen up laying in the flow frames. Very disappointed with this purchase and should have taken the advice of beekeepers more experienced at the bee club that all recommended against buying a Flow Hive. Their marketing is highly deceiving.