Sea Hive Mini — Local services in San Diego

I just visited this store for the first time yesterday , August 6th between the hours 4pm-6pm. While there was a nice assortment of items, I can't say the experience of being hovered by one of your employees was. I'd walk over to one section, look around, move onto the next, and your employee (the taller Caucasian looking employee) would be in every section I was just in, as if inspecting if anything was missing. This happened repeatedly. I took my time looking around anyways, but it was hard to ignore considering me and my boyfriend were the only people in the store, while this was happening. At one point me and my boyfriend broke off to look at other areas, and this employee continued to shadow me. At one point when I was fed up of being baby sat, I passed by her, gave a courtesy smile of acknowledgement and she scoffed at me instead. I'm surprised she didn't call security and accuse me...

I shopped at this store during Christmas to support local businesses with my gift-giving. While in the store, I ordered a custom-engraved water bottle. Unfortunately, the order never arrived. The vendor repeatedly missed deadlines and never sent the item.

When I reached out to Sea Hive for a refund, they told me they don’t offer refunds and could only provide the vendor’s contact information. After contacting the vendor, they initially agreed to issue a refund but never followed through and eventually stopped responding. The Hive was unwilling to assist beyond that and was overall unhelpful.

Based on this experience, I wouldn’t trust purchasing through The Sea again and will stick to farmers markets and other local Etsy meetups...

It was a cute little amalgamation of shops/sellers. That was, until they started following me around like I was going to shoplift. I picked up some baby socks and was carrying them obviously in my hand, no attempt to conceal, as we finished walking the store to make sure we didn’t want anything else. I noticed a red haired attendant kept coming by us over and over as we perused various areas, and it creeped me out. So I put back the socks and was going to tell my friend to leave, and an older lady watched me put them back and said loudly “we’re good here” and thumbs up’d the red haired woman. I get they have to be wary, but I didn’t do anything red flag and it turned me off to...