Video: game consoles stored in Gamestop bathroom

On a serious note, we're telling ourselves that there's just no way this happens in even a meaningful amount of Gamestop locations, but more than anything, the video waiting just after the break is for chuckles and chuckles alone. Apparently, one quick-thinking videographer-to-be captured a few stacks of Xbox 360s and PS3s in the store bathroom. Yes, the store bathroom. So the Gamestop-sourced console you're playing on right now could have all sorts of restroom-related germs on it. Yikes.

[Thanks, gamestopped]

[Jon @ Sep 28th 2008 11:34AM]

That's just nasty.

[Blackstar @ Sep 28th 2008 12:22PM]

*ATTENTION* All GameStop employees are required to wash their consoles before returning to work.

[Flashpoint @ Sep 28th 2008 12:23PM]

If those were WII's no one would be complaining.

[Greg @ Sep 28th 2008 12:27PM]

Other places do it too, trust me.

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Sep 28th 2008 12:31PM]

What happens to the consoles on the bottom when the toilet over floods from an "oversized load"?

[revreddy @ Sep 28th 2008 12:44PM]

Always wondered how GameStop is able to stock so many consoles in those puny little stores. Guess we finally know where now.

[BigD145 @ Sep 28th 2008 1:16PM]

Damn. Now I'll have to stop giving my consoles to kids for use as a teething toy.

[steven @ Sep 28th 2008 1:52PM]

Hey waiter, that sign in the bathroom about washing your hands, that's for the staff only, right?

[konshuss @ Sep 28th 2008 2:06PM]

they pulled the video, i don't blame them. can't just flush all your problems away gamestop!

[G! @ Sep 28th 2008 2:15PM]

Pennsylvania Gamestops are like this, next time I buy a game, I'll take a pic or vid of the bathroom! They are stacked like firewood in there!

[The Dude @ Sep 28th 2008 2:28PM]

If I worked at Gamestop and had to take an epic dump I would grab a console box for some bathroom reading. I'm sure someone has done so already.

[Kornation @ Sep 28th 2008 2:28PM]

This isn't uncommon at all, lots of Game & Gamestop type stores are being forced into using any space available as storage due to mainly the Wii and its bazillion add-ons, Rock band and up-coming GH:WT - my mates work has had to close its retro area down to make more storage space.

[kornation @ Sep 28th 2008 2:42PM]

Oh yeah - for those that think this is just an American problem, I'm from England, Birmingham to be more precise, and most of my mates work in game based stores (Game, Gamestop, CEX and Gamestation). All of them have at some point stored games or consoles in the toilets.

[Tux @ Sep 28th 2008 3:09PM]

Thats not ONLY in the US!!!!
In Gamestop germany are the same conditions
at least at the Xmas sesason

[David @ Sep 28th 2008 6:13PM]

I wonder if they have cameras in the bathrooms to protect those. o.O

[Charlie Calhoun @ Sep 28th 2008 5:22PM]

@Blackstar

Especially Carl...

[BigD145 @ Sep 28th 2008 6:25PM]

A suppose a person could smuggle one out of the store in such a way that only a full body cavity search would yield results.

[finndo @ Sep 29th 2008 6:21AM]

I used to manage a gamestop in south carolina and we did this all the time; however I installed shelving to keep the systems from squishing the boxes. this was done as "added security" as the bathroom door could be locked, then if someone broke in to steal the systems they would think the store was out of the really expensive ones.

[finndo @ Sep 29th 2008 6:25AM]

oh, and yes there was a camera pointed at the bathroom, and no the tapes were never changed, and the system was not ever on the entire time I worked there. only the DM had the key, but you could open the recording system's case with a screw driver)

[Pepsipoint @ Sep 29th 2008 12:31AM]

Eh. I worked for the company when It was funcoland, and then as gamestop. We stored almost everything in the bathroom, and barely used the bathroom as a bathroom. Small stock room. Whatcha gonna do.

[MemphisNET @ Sep 30th 2008 12:09PM]

The EB Games I worked at did the same thing. Nasty is right.

[gilbert @ Sep 28th 2008 11:42AM]

I was a Assistant Manager for GameStop, and this is not an uncommon practice. i worked in several stores and the back storage rooms are never very big. All kinds of things are stored in the employee bathroom

[dandaman @ Sep 28th 2008 12:12PM]

lol... all kinds of things...

[Nick @ Sep 28th 2008 11:35AM]

Well this is great news, I wont buy my next game system at gamestop :P hehe Since i'm a germ freak :P

[Derek @ Sep 28th 2008 1:48PM]

Don't buy batteries from Radio Shack, we used to keep em in the bathroom too...

[Greg @ Sep 28th 2008 4:24PM]

Boxes for the display phones too, right? ;)

[Falcom @ Sep 28th 2008 5:17PM]

This is suprisingly common in small shops. Whether its a video game shop, or bike shop, or paintball shop. The paintball shop i used to hang out at had merchandise in the bathroom, there just isnt space anywhere else. Oh, and the sink was broken from too much weight and abuse on it...if you know what i mean.

[mike @ Sep 28th 2008 5:54PM]

Ppft thats nothing, we use the cystern to store games

[PuyoDead @ Oct 1st 2008 4:50PM]

A certain Lenscrafters I used to work for stored all kinds of things in the bathroom. Eyeglass cases, safety frame side shields, promotional material, and worst of all, contact lens cases. Yup, all that stuff near your eyes? Totally within a few feet of multiple pounds of poop.

[drew @ Sep 28th 2008 11:36AM]

This is true, i used to work at multiple gamestops, and they never built enough storage space, so the bathrooms always turned into the storage rooms. We never used the bathrooms though since they were full of crap.

[Brian @ Sep 28th 2008 11:38AM]

lol nice pun.

[LouTreize @ Sep 28th 2008 11:51AM]

Yup, I worked in an EB Games and that's exactly how it was. The back stores in some EB's are very small, especially those in malls. So in the end, we'd have no choice but to put some stock in the washroom.

[Jeff @ Sep 28th 2008 12:29PM]

Yup, same here. When I was in high school working at EB Games in NJ, they stored a whole bunch of merchandise, including consoles, in the employee bathroom.

[maty @ Sep 28th 2008 11:36AM]

Its not just the Xboxs with Red Rings of Death in that bathroom...

[James @ Sep 28th 2008 12:37PM]

You sir just made my day xD

[konshuss @ Sep 28th 2008 1:37PM]

could someone throw in a stack of hdtvs as well, i'm gonna be awhile...

[konshuss @ Sep 28th 2008 2:07PM]

one more... maybe they should rename the store Pitstop.

[joseph282758 @ Sep 28th 2008 11:36AM]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Decoy @ Sep 28th 2008 2:44PM]

Nice to know people take their camera to the bathroom.

[Rob @ Sep 28th 2008 11:37AM]

Judging by most of the people I've seen hanging out in Gamestop playing those demo consoles I'd have to say that while yes, their hands were in that general area, they were not in fact going to the bathroom.

[EmoChicksAreHot.....Seriously @ Sep 28th 2008 11:37AM]

that's kinda nasty man.

[BILL @ Sep 28th 2008 11:37AM]

SOFA

[Ford Mustang @ Sep 28th 2008 11:38AM]

What stops somebody from going in there and walking out with one? I can see somebody walking in there with a backpack and leaving an empty box.

[lolwecsan @ Sep 28th 2008 11:47AM]

im pretty sure its the employee bathroom, in the back of the store. but you have a good point.

[LocalToast @ Sep 28th 2008 2:25PM]

Just say you're the plumber, they'll never see it coming

[Jeff @ Sep 28th 2008 3:22PM]

Nope.

1. Employee-only bathroom.
2. Cameras outside the bathroom, both in the back room where the bathroom is and in the main store.
3. You can't leave through the back room, and even if you could...
4. Before leaving the store (for any reason), Gamestop employees have to turn out all their pockets, lift up their pant legs, pull back their shirt sleeves, and empty their backpacks in front of another employee and in view of a camera.

If you think you can get a system out of that store unnoticed, you're crazy.

[rhcpsfan @ Sep 28th 2008 11:40AM]

it reminds me of that seinfeld episode where George takes the book in the bathroom ..............anyone else remember that one?

[Neebs @ Sep 28th 2008 12:14PM]

The consoles have been flagged!

[sracer @ Sep 28th 2008 12:22PM]

Neebs scores extra points for the obscure Seinfeld reference!

[mace @ Sep 28th 2008 6:56PM]

YES