$600 will normally buy you enough woodenware and bees to start 2 new complete colonies from scratch.
That is, 4 full depth supers (the boxes), enough frames to fill each of them (normally ten frames per super), foundation, top and bottom boards, all brand new at retail. Way way less than that for the woodenware if you are half handy with a table saw.
I tried out plastic frames with foundation built in this last year. Cost about 25 cents a frame more than buying wooden frames and installing the wax sheet foundation, so an extra $5 per hive. The bees seemed OK with them.
A package of bees (~3 pounds of worker bees, and a young bred queen) is near enough to $200 right now here.
Then you put your $600 box on top of that for the bees to maybe fill.
Buying nucleus hives from local producers, or splitting your own hives and producing your own queens, is far far cheaper too.
But that gives you a reference point as to what $600 is worth in beekeeping.
This is a hippy happiness idea being sold hard (and well, I might add) to the ignorant, many of whom already thought that all you did was walk up to the hive and the happy bees just gave you the honey for the asking.
You can send them money. I won't.
Most of the folks that are mooching for money at least promise the delivery of some goods or services. These guys just want the money. They promise to use it to develop their product so they might eventually sell it.
Hows about this. You all send me money so I can start a business to sell you stuff. What do you get for sending me money? A thank you, if you send enough. But I get your money.
That's what I see here.
TeeJo