Restaurant.com - How to Get 80% to 90.8% Off

[Spoofee]

Restaurant.com offers many gift certificates for your local restaurants at a bargain. Combine the bargain with one of these offers to make it a very good deal!

Easy Method - Get 80% Off
1. Click here and use coupon code PLATE to get 80% off. Coupon expires 07/31/10

Simple Method - Get 90% Off (Expired)
1. Click here to see Restaurant.com gift cards on eBay. They have them for 90% off
2. Go to Restaurant.com and use the 90% off gift certificate

Complicated Method - Get 90.8% Off
1. Click here and sign up for an Bing cashback account if you haven't yet. This is so you can get an extra 8% off

2. Click here and click on "www.ebay.com" link in the gray sponsored sites area.
( If you can't see it, try search terms like "xp" )

3. Click here to see Restaurant.com gift cards on eBay

4. Use Buy It Now, and Use Paypal to get 8% back through Bing
Make sure you see the Microsoft Cashback 8% during your checkout

5. After you get your gift certificate, go shopping at Restaurant.com

 

[SkyeBlue]

Research before you purchase!

I recently bought a Restaurant.com gift certificate through paypal.com. Before you buy one of these call the restaurant you want to go to BEFORE you purchase the certificate to confirm that they will accept it! AFTER I purchased the certificate I called the restaurant to confirm their open hours and I was told that they had not been accepting the restaurant.com certificate for MONTHS, and had informed them, but restaurant.com was still selling them!!! NOw I am trying to get my money refunded back to my paypal account! Shady!

 

[mike54721]

Restaurant.com is a notorious scam. They don't pay a cent to the actual restaurant. It's like printing money. The actual restaurants get tricked into accepting them but then realize the scam and stop accepting them.

 

[Spoofee]

I think restaurants that are usually on Restaurant.com are the ones that want to get their word out even at a loss which I doubt they are taking. I can see why restaurants stopping promotions through Restaurant.com once they are popular.

 

[SaveMe]

I had never heard of this being a scam before... I am surprised! Only b/c I have used them MANY times & have never had a problem. Well, I did sort of encounter a problem when I bought a cert. & the restaurant closed a few months later... they promptly issued me a new certificate to use at any other restaurant. This is too bad!

 

[Proboscis]

same here

I had never heard of this being a scam before... I am surprised! Only b/c I have used them MANY times & have never had a problem. Well, I did sort of encounter a problem when I bought a cert. & the restaurant closed a few months later... they promptly issued me a new certificate to use at any other restaurant. This is too bad!

I've used the site many many times and only had a problem once when the restaurant stopped accepting the coupons - I called restaurant.com and they gave me a refund to purchase other certificates. Even if it had been a loss, I think the grand total would have been in the neighborhood of $4 and I've saved 5 times that using a single certificate. I'll continue to use the site for restaurants in our area.

 

[groove1]

I agree with both points, although I never have a problem using them. The restaurants don't get anything out of it, so r dot com can give them away very cheap. Yes, they get the word out, but they lose more money on them than local coupon books. Another difference with local coupon books is that they are also often sol by non-profits, so the establishment is helping the community. I use restaurant.com still, but not as much. Groupon.com has been great, and if you refer someone you get a $10 credit, which is often enough for a certificate, and there aren't too many restrictions on those. Plus, groupon gives them a chunk of the revenue too.