Stiffed by popular camping casino!!!!

Not sure what I can do about it but Im very unhappy. I IM'd the owner and haven't heard back from him. Its normally very simple you sit in a chair and play the slots to build up the pay rate on your chair. You then camp for awile and when you stand up the chair pays you. This time the chair announced it paid me but it didn't. It's over 5000L that I was not paid. I heard other people talking over the weekend about these casino's not paying people because they supposedly arent doing very well but I never really believed it until it happened to me. They aslo advertise a guarantee. LOL I dont want to say the name but it only has three initials. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there anything I can do? Can I hire some virtual goons to help? LOL Just kidding no violence. I dont want this to happen to anyone else. It doesn't seem like a very fair business practice. If this has happened to you or you know someone please IM me. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Suggestions? Don't use camping chairs lol..

I'd wait to hear back from the guy.. Other than that theres not much you can do but spread the word.. But not on the forums, naming names agaist the rules..

The IM to email hasn't been working today - so you might IM again in case yours didn't get through.

How bout you get a job?

Honestly either the chair had a payout limit or the casino ran out of money from all the camping. Camping Chairs were doomed from the start and you'll never catch me putting one on my property.

side note: keep in mind there are some people putting out fake camping chairs that will never pay you.

I had that happen to me once or twice. I just shrugged it off because it was only a matter of a couple hundred $L's. Now 5000$L's is quite a bit, not to mention how much money you fed those slot machines to get the pay rate up high.

After that happened to me, if I sit in a camping chair or dance on a dancing pad, I try to stand up every hour to collect my money...this way one is not wasting time in a place that is going bankrupt and can't pay you. They are suppose to turn the chairs and pads off if money is low but I guess some places are not maintained as well as others.

Okay, my weird-o-meter just pegged. You are unhappy because you didn't get paid US$20 for having your computer logged onto a game whilst you were doing something else?

My computer has been connected to the internet for years and they make me pay them for it. This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

The house always wins.

The same thing happened to me the other day at I'm guessing the same type of casino because they have three initials in their title and they are a "camping casino". A friend told me it was a good way for someone that was new to make some extra lindens to go shopping with. I've visited three times and the last time I sat until I got bored and tried to log out. When I stood up it said it had paid me $1458 but I didn't get anything. Does this happen alot? I IM'd the owner 2 days ago and have not heard any type of reply. I'm going to tell everyone that I can about this "dirty" operation they are running. I've learned my lesson but it seems very unfair that they advertise as much as they do because they must take advantage of alot of new people like me! Shame on you old man with grey hair!!!!!!!!

The camping chairs bother me, seriously, getting paid to just sit around on someone's spot? They must really want people to hang out there, that or it just sounds to good to be true.

Well it's a casino so theres always some risk. But you find out the rules, follow them, and you expect to get paid if you win. It's truley false advertisment.

Just one more reason why camping chairs must go.

SL doesn't need the bad reputation that new players will spread by this type of first time in-game experience.

I love the idea that there are fake camping chairs! That's funny as hell!

Hey Lucy, I was sitting in the same casino with you on Sunday night. I also am a victim of not getting paid. I however am more in Rizzla's boat because I am owed $4999L. A slightly bigger loss, not trying to diminish yours but I'm extremly pi**ed OFF! I also instant messaged the owner and he sent me an email asking me how I got disconnected. No money or explaination since, just one email. I went back into the casino and asked other people what their history said. Their history said I had made $4999 for camping. Hahaha. No Money!! The funny thing is all the other people thought he paid out. What a scam!! I'm guessing the casino is hurting because they pulled a bunch of their adds and changed their max limits down to 4000 sometime in the past couple of days. I'm almost positive theres more people out there that this happened to. Maybe we can form a human wall around his locations and not let other people in till he pays us!! I just want my $$$$$$!

Wow, thats alot more than me. I think I do remember you sitting there. I don't really think camping chairs are bad it's allowed me to meet lots of people and make some extra $. I just think that dishonesty is bad regardless of camping or not. I realize most people that have been around SL for some time don't really like the camping chairs but I would bet if you took a poll of new people most of them would say they like them because it gives us a chance to make some extra money. As far as what other people do with their time I'm all for whatever makes them happy and I sure wouldn't want people forcing their beliefs or ideas on me. To each is their own lets all just treat each other fairly and enjoy SL together!!

The places earn extra money depending on their popularity, that's why they really want people to hang out there. The whole thing has a dishonest feel to it that I can't really pinpoint.... Buying popularity?? If this kind of behavior of failing to pay and avoiding the whole matter afterwards spreads, the story of the camping chairs is over, and that's good. I understand not getting paid your hard earned (by sitting on your ass, let me remind you ) cash MUST be extremely annoying, but seriously.... If you're not sleeping during that time (should you really be paid for sleeping..?) imagine all the things you could be doing and possibly earning even more.
It sounds good to a newbie, I'm sure, but oh the feeling of betrayal if something like this happens....

I normally dont agree with Kris on much, but...I agree with Kris!

Now that is what I call ironic justic. A barnacle on the underhull of SL being scraped off by an even bigger barnacle.


- Newfie

So what are you saying Newfire? Who is exactly are you referring to in general? Are you judging me for camping? Or gambling? Or am I not allowed to do anything for my own enjoyment? Do I have to be a premium member to have a voice and opinion? I'm very new and would like to someday like to own and run a SL business. But for now I explore and do whatever and I read alot and do research while camping sometimes. Am I a barnacle? Or did I take what you were saying the wrong way? Please explain.

Sure, be glad to spell it out. In my humble opinion camping (and by extension those who can title themselves 'campers') is a waste of bandwidth, resources and eats up CPU cycles that could have been used for actual productive purposes. Camping is little more than a method of dwell farming, a process that is milked by both the camper and the camping-chair provider for an easy, lazy buck. This not only diminishes the overall quality and experience of general SL life for everyone, it makes it all that much more difficult for people with truly contributory creations to be able to earn dwell commensurate to their level.


So yes. Barnacle on the underside of a ship. I think it's all quite well explained.


- Newfie

Well Newfire you sound like a very lonely person. I'm sorry you feel that way. It seems that you are very full of yourself and very judgemental of others. I don't remember when I signed up that it said any where that I had to build, design , and or own land right away. If being a jerk to new people that have had a bad expierence doing things that you don't agree with is your way of making yourself feel better than go right ahead. It's no wonder more people don't sign up for premium memberships with you representing them in such a positive way. I'm glad you feel like your so much better than me. It makes me smile. Your very funny. Sorry that I don't live up to your standards Mr "Holier Than Thou" but I already have a dad. GL in life Mr. Negative. Just know I'll be laughing at how bitter of a person you are!!!!!!!

Thank you for the long worded paragraph of accusations, empty implications and tantrum-throwing. You had asked a very simple question, which was to clarify and/or confirm what I meant. I did so honestly, though I do admit to going for accuracy rather than political correctness. I did try to keep it to a PG level and used the metaphor of 'barnacle', other than (what I really wanted to say) 'steaming pile of cow dung on a hot sunny day, topped off with a bright colored bow'. If you donot agree with my opinion, you are under no obligation to support it. It does neither brighten nor darken my day if you do or do not like it.

I wish you good luck in your other SL activities. Hopefully you'll find doing things other than sitting in place like a mannequin and actually using those giant gobs of bandwidth for productive and otherwise community-positive ways will show you that's there's far more interesting things in SL.

Enjoy your hot sunny day now.


- Newfie

I agree, there is much much more to SL than sitting in a chair doing nothing and complaining that you didn't get free money...

Rough crowd. You do have to enter codes every 2 hours to continue camping so technically you do do something to earn it. That's neither here nor there and trust me I will enjoy my sunny day! While I'm camping taking up your bandwidth!!!!!!! Sorry!

Camping chairs: they're what Turing would have wanted.

Not as new as you, but not on nearly so much as some of the others, either. So I'm effectively new. And I ain't making money in world (yet) although I expect that to change really soon. But I can understand your motivation for camping, and I won't condemn you for trying to make a fast buck that way.

So let me try a less abusive approach than some others have taken here...

I see you've just joined...what's the coolest build you've seen since joining?

On a positive note I was just paid by the owner of the casino so maybe you others will get paid as well. I will now go back as a paying customer. Sorry. GL all.