Sounds like they just need to add maintenance services.

I'd very much like to know the answer to this too.

I'd pay $600 + $50/yr for hive mgmt for free honey for the rest of my life.

1. $600 for endless local (good for allergies) honey is way too expensive?
2. Fluids don't run downhill?
4. I'm not, they are.

I'm guessing you didn't actually go look at the design and see what they did that's different than your assumptions.

Uh, it'd be gallons per year coming out of the hive. $50 is reasonable to maintain it a couple times a year.

And bees are good to have around & to learn from.

Sorry if you can't see there's a decent market here.

Somebody will.

Probably the same guy (kid) who went door to door selling the new hives.

Have you been on social media websites during the work day?

RTFA would answer several of your questions.

1. $600 for box + 8 frames
2. It's gravity fed, so it'll all flow down eventually.
3. It's gravity fed, so it'll all flow down eventually.
4. The bees notice & refill.

As I said elsewhere, set up a business to manage the hives.

$50/yr + 1 quart of honey, check on my hives 2x per year (or whatever makes sense) and we have a deal.

I just want honey, not another hobby.

Very?

My dog lived on the street for >1 year before we adopted her. She seemed to do ok.

So start a business checking on the hives of others.
I'd love something simple like this. But I'm not going to put the time into learning the details of the bee life cycle & issues to do much more than turn a tap.

Change me $50/year + 1 quart of honey, come out 2x per year to check on the hive, you'll have a deal.

Call it being a 'bee wrangler' or some PC name like that

And alcohol is yeast shit.

He was whining about all the shortcomings of the new system.

My dog & cat would be happy to just eat scraps from the dinner table every night.

So what exactly is there to do? Educate us instead of whine.

Why would there be more effort than turning the handle after initial setup?
Why would you need to deal with the bees at all?