Celine Lightfoot

Beni - Browser extension finds the best resale deals online

The Beni browser extension is a FREE and easy-to-use tool that makes secondhand shopping seamless. With the click of a button, the extension intercepts online shopping searches and directs users to the same or similar products on leading resale marketplaces.

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Rachel Schindler
Beni changes the way we shop — saving money and good for the environment. What could be better!!
Kate Sanner
@rachel_schindler if we could get everyone buying secondhand, we'd make a huge impact! Glad you're joining us on that journey 🚀
Celine Lightfoot
@rachel_schindler Thanks for your support! (:
Anna Sippel
Such an awesome extension that truly kills two birds — making it easier for us custy’s to shop and also saving our planet. As somebody who works in retail, I’ve seen firsthand the waste that goes with new product production and fast fashion, so this endeavor is more important than ever. Excited to see where this goes, go Beni!
Kate Sanner
@anna_sippel we're excited too! Thanks for following along and for helping us be part of the solution!
Celine Lightfoot
@anna_sippel Thanks for the support! 🙌
andrewvfletcher
I’m so impressed by how much you’ve shipped since the beta – can’t wait till you expand more into gear and hard goods!
Celine Lightfoot
@andrewvfletcher Hope we get to expand into new verticals like gear soon! ⛷️ Thanks for the support!
Jake Disraeli
This is one of those "no duh" extensions everyone should have.
Sarah Pinner
@jakediz haha love it! Thank you! So stoked to be building the future of resale alongside you 💪🏼
Celine Lightfoot
@jakediz Thanks for your support! Will we get to see Treet on PH soon?!
Jake Disraeli
@celiineee definitely! keep ya posted :)
Rachel Sachs
Woohoo! I love Beni! It's always suggesting amazing re-commerce alternatives during my many hours of online window shopping
Sarah Pinner
@rachel_sachs we love to hear it!
Jonny Vaux
Daym, looks like an awesome product. Are the re-sale partners vetted by the Beni team? I just want to make sure my new purchase will be legit. Thanks!!
Sarah Pinner
@jonny_vaux thank you! Great question! On a high-level, yes we do vet the resale partners. We have direct relationships with all of our resale marketplace partners (i.e. we aren't just scraping from the internet) and we verify that they are reputable marketplaces. With these direct relationships, we also have the ability to surface only items of a certain quality level and/or from sellers with certain ratings. This said, Beni ourselves do not evaluate the individual resale items and/or sellers on the marketplaces (in the case of peer-to-peer sites). We trust the resale marketplaces to manage this. Each marketplace may have different approaches to how they vet, authenticate, and guarantee the products and sellers on their site. We put together a guide of the top resale marketplaces here: https://www.joinbeni.com/post/th... Q for you: Would if be helpful for us to have marketplace level details in the extension itself. For example, if we direct you to a product on Grailed, would it be helpful for Beni to show information on Grailed's policies in the extension?
Dexter Dethmers
This is so cool! Congratulations on the launch! How many stores does beni currently support?
Sarah Pinner
@dexondexx1 thank you!! We currently support ~1k sites! You can see all supported sites here: https://www.joinbeni.com/support... We're big fans of Loot as well - love seeing the extension space grow!
Celine Lightfoot
@dexondexx1 Thanks for your support! Congrats on your launch earlier this week as well! 🙂
Grisel Hernandez
Any plans to go from extension to search functionality on the beni site? Sometimes, when I shop I'll only have a clothing item or material in mind. Would be cool to just search "silk shirts" in my saved size across beni partners and see what comes up :)
Sarah Pinner
@grishdz great idea! We're definitely considering it and are hoping to build it out soon - we'd love to offer more ways for shoppers to access the amazing options from our resale partners!
Grisel Hernandez
@sarah_beni Thank you!
Michael Garrett
Hi team - awesome product! Are you guys able to track sustainability metrics around the use of Beni? Would be really cool to see some programs where large corporations partner with Beni and tie their CSR goals to the Benji platform
Celine Lightfoot
@michael_garrett2 That's a cool idea! We are actually working on a feature update that will demonstrate the sustainability value of shopping secondhand with Beni and have plans to expand this functionality in the future. Haven't thought about partnering with large corporations for their CSR goals but would love to chat with you more about it!
Ale Trevino
Love Beni! Saw your campaign about corporate swag - any chance there’s a feature coming to help find bulk buying of tips to then add logos to?
Celine Lightfoot
@ale_trevino I love that idea! We haven't yet thought about ways to support other corporations with their corporate gift giving but would love to chat with you more about it! For the Beni team, we buy blank clothing items via Beni like shirts, crewnecks, etc. and have been screen printing them all together during our off-sites with a local screen printer - that's been super fun and would highly recommend as a great bonding experience for smaller companies.
Kate Sanner
@ale_trevino you can also check out our friends and partners at Goodfair -- they sell in bulk and it's actually where we sourced a lot of the items we ended up screenprinting!