Take it from the top
Hell's Concession Stand (or HCS as it is fondly known by its concessionaires) is a very controversial title for a very simple concept. People own stuff, that's just how things work. The problem is that people don't know all the cool stuff that their friends own. How are you suppose to borrow your friends' cool stuff if you don't know what they have?
Can I borrow...
HCS is our way of solving the problem of borrowing stuff from your friends. We got tired of renting DVDs and then days later finding out that one of our friends had the same DVD collecting dust and we could have borrowed it directly from them and saved us some money (and we're all about saving money).
Getting down with the media
Ok, ok - that's still not very descriptive - here's how it works. As a member of HCS you put in the media (books, DVDs, VHS tapes, audio CDs, electronic games, etc) that you want your friends to be able to borrow. Then you invite your friends to join and they put their media in as well. From there you and your friends can search HCS for whatever it is you want to borrow (whether that's the romantic comedy Sliding Doors or the latest thriller by Tom Clancy) and if one of your friends has that particular piece of media, you can request to borrow it! It's that easy.
Everyone and their dog
"Wait a minute," you're thinking, "I don't want everyone and their dog who is a member of HCS to be able to borrow my stuff!" and too right you are (I personally refrain from letting any canine borrow my books, too many teeth marks). One of the key features of HCS is the Friends system. You know the saying "you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends but you can't pick your friends' nose"? We agree 100% - you should be able to pick your friends! Inside HCS you select the people that you want to be able to search on and borrow your media. If someone in HCS isn't listed as one of your friends, they can't see your media, much less request to borrow something.
Fun for everyone
What would a website be without cool fun stuff? Well, we don't have just a ton of cool fun stuff, but we do have a very spiffy quote board. You know - you hear that line in a movie that everyone should know and you just have to share! Put it into the quote system and watch as a new quote is randomly pulled into the footer of each page. If you find a quote that looks interesting - you can search for that particular media (book, DVD, etc) and if one of your friends have it, you can borrow it and share the experience!
"She turned you into a newt?"
"I got betta..."
Because we have nothing better to do in our spare time but sit down and think up other cool stuff to do with HCS we're improving things all the time! Once inside check out the ToDo list to see what's currently on our list of things to fix or improve for the next version.
But I wanna join!!
Sure you want to join, everyone does - it's just too cool not to want to join, right? Right now the only way to join HCS is by invitation only. Yea, life sucks sometime but the reason is quite sound: we wrote HCS so we could borrow stuff from our friends. We still pay for the bandwidth and server space for HCS, why should we provide this as a completely free service to the world? Of course, we're open to bribery and other forms of begging. If you can present us with a reason why you should be invited into HCS even though we probably don't know you and can't borrow your stuff - send us an email: letmeinplease (you-know-what) hellsconcessionstand.com