This sort of involves records

I had an idea for a website. It'd be a sort of website/message board full of thrift store scoops. One of the big problems we thrifters face is that you have to keep checking and checking all stores or you'll never know what you're missing. I went to a Goodwill one weekend and was browsing the music, they had an unusual amount of CDs at the time, and the manager tells me that the Monday before they had gotten a donation of close to 3,000 CDs from a guy that had just died. And, yes I know, CDs. *BELCH* But there was some good stuff in there, quite a few Fat Possum albums, and I would've loved to see what had been in there originally. But the stock had pretty much dwindled to 100 or so by the time I got to it. So, the website would be split into cities/regions/areas or whatever and would take a whole lot of involvement from the public, or at least the thrift store faithful. You go to a thrift store, and you report back on what's there. Things seem to come into thrift stores in batches. When you find one early 90s 12-inch, you're likely to find several. So when you go and notice that a new shipment has come in, and if you can take stock of a theme to it, you report back to anyone else who would want to know. And this doesn't just have to apply to records. Could work if you're looking for flannel shirts, western boots, life preserver vests, slickers, TVs, furniture, whatever. There could also be a section for requests. As in, "I'm asking you to be on the lookout for [this]. Have you seen [this] anywhere?"

At least two problems with this plan. (1) Specific to records, we who buy records can of course be grabby. If we come across a good stash, we're likely to clean it out right there. There would be nothing left to report back on. (2) The requests would probably get outrageous. I can see asking someone to be on the lookout for a genre or a group, but eventually people would start asking for a particular album, or a certain brand and size of television, or a certain color, size, cut, pattern, and fabric of shirt. It'd get out of hand. You couldn't ask people to remember that kind of stuff between thrift store and computer. But that's when I get to come down and reign supreme, deal out some punishment.