Question on Camping Chairs

I saw them for sale and was wondering, say i got some to boost my shop or something, would i be the one paying them 2 L$ for 10 mins or whatever?

yes you would

On a side note the camp chairs will make you loathed by your neighbors.

Yep, that's the concept...The shop owner pay people to camp with his/her own Lindens.

just so you know a lot of places use them hoping that people will spend some of the lindens in their shops they usually dont

they are basically to give people free lindens also high traffic numbers has never been something to say to me woah this place is awesome. Yes properties in the same category are ranked in the property index by this number, but its a heck of a way to pay for advertising very expensive take out an ad its cheaper and easier on lag.

I will be putting in like 1 camping spot but its mainly to give someone a job if they want it although its a heck of a way to earn lindens I can't think of much to ask people to do and i might give them a bit more then regular places do with 20 chairs.

Anyhow unless your purpose is to give a newbie or "unskilled" person lindens then they are not much help really

get a money tree as well if your gonna hand out lindens they actualy are better for shop owners people port around and do stop and look at the goods around them (i know i did and i took note if i found something i saw of interest and went back later) they are a much better way to use your lindens

If your shop is on land you own then you can become a Hippie Pay affiliate. You can pick up an atm machine from a sim named Scandium. I believe these atms are free to take and use on your own property. When you register an atm and someone comes along and fills out surveys on it, you are awarded half of their total prize in Linden dollars.

Or you can just use the camping chairs and pay out of your pocket. I don't know for sure, but with the number of people using them, they must be worth something.

Not really... to me, it's an admission that your property and its contents don't have sufficient there of their own accord to get people to stay and look, if they won't stay unless you bribe them.

I avoid anywhere that I find full of camping zombies - as soon as I recognise their presence, I go somewhere else to avoid giving them 'traffic'.

Traffic is not an accurate measure of quality or popularity. Exploration and self-discovery, or recommendation from friends, is by far the best way to find out what's worth going to in Second Life.

Anywhere full of camping chairs is usually as laggy as hell, which makes the whole experience of trying to do anything there really not worth it at all. Dancing at 2fps? Waiting 10 minutes for textures to rez to see if there's anything at the store you want to buy? Seems kinda self-defeating to me.

Broccoli

But if camping chairs weren't increasing the profit for the land owner, why would anyone place them out? Why give someone your money so they can cause sales to drop? There must be a value to them or they would just disappear.

This is my observation.
If there was just 10 percent more legitimate jobs or even 20 percent more for those who are doing well within SL people would rent, buy, shop more but no there very few people who are doing well who wouldn't spend money on anything that doesn't serve them first.
You don't have to have tons of camping chairs.
Island owners if they cared enough could even provide more camping spots to encourage renters and build loyality.
How many do it? Very few. There is very few ways to make legitimate L in Second Life, camping has it purposes most business misuse it or charge for camping.
Poor camper not making very much infact is losing money.
Hippiepay is email, personal information harvesting scam.
If I was making more L not spending so much in my own L that I have to eat cereal I have in my private access area 4 or 5 camping chairs just for my friends or regulars not just for stats but as way to help them out.
I only spend my money at places that one are friendly, two provide me social activity and job to supplement the times when I can't buy another single L.
There are places out there that I have camped no one there except newbies, who most likely won't buy a thing and there is rare exception where the spot is geninuely pleasant social, fun hang out, owners have money and are doing well but provide camping as personal service.
Personally for those who are making money out of sl I believe its there duty to also add to the community by providing jobs to those of who are starting or are only making very little can't afford to buy hundreds and thousands of LIndens.
People pay for advertising if it helps get you noticed why not provide jobs too.
There are ways to create less lag on neighbors if SL wanted to provide way to do this.
Also I hear those who can afford top of line computers don't lag. I don't know I got very cheap machine I upgraded.
If there was more money flowing through SL people would be spending more.
There are camping spots or clubs where they don't expect someone to gamble or kick you of the seats, that no one is ever there, yet there are fun places too that pay same 1 or 2l that people flock to because that where they socialize inbetween building, exploring,etc.
Majority of the free money casinos are much like or similar to hippie thing scam.
There is catch. You often might not get anything in return from them and whole lot of hassle. Just to camp certain length of time you have to pay, to get higher pay you may have to spend over 100L or more just to get the 10/15.
Its scam. There actually very few camping places that are legitimate community services that provide jobs and L for the newbie economy.
These aren't people expecting welfare either they work hard or new and learning about SL. Or they don't want to give out credit card information or be stupid like me that spends way to much money that I don't have on virtual land.. They spend lot of money in other parts of economy for real money. I know I do but its to LL. They get lot of money from me. I spend more once I make more in the future.
There only going to be certain percentage of people be it in 1st or 2nd life who are skilled enough to get work that pays.
There only certain few who will not trust just anyone with their credit card information for various reasons who probably make a whole lot more money in 1st life then I do who could probably afford the high tier fees but choose not to spend money in that way on virtual world but hang out here still yet provide help in other ways to the community.

I sometimes use a dance pay pad and have used a camping chair before.
You can buy other things as well that are similar: *Work stations -sercurity, dancing poles, mopping floors etc* even some stuff that is adult related that will pay out per minute.

I use the above just to help build traffic and often I will get repeat visitors due to it. Eventually, they will spend money in my shop.

I agree with this - and this is why I think Traffic numbers should be removed