I'm just tired of seeing tons of posts & reposts of the same promo code so I thought this would be a nice little consolidation that everyone could refer to when/if they need it. I'll start this one:
99489 50% off exp 1/22/06. & please use the Quick Summary to add/update. Don't forget 15% FC!!!
Message edited by: PopTart777 on 2008-06-06 00:13:34 CDT
Call the restaurant before you buy gc or dine and ask if they accept GC's from restaurant.com
I see this tip a lot and it confuses me: are there restaurants that restaurant.com sells certificates to that aren't authorized by the restaurants or something? If they're on restaurant.com haven't they made some kind of agreement with the website?
Thanks OP. Having one consildated place for codes should work well.
Out of curiosity, do you think the restaurants see any of the money that the end user spends on the gift certificate, or is restaurant.com's deal with the various restaurants amount to nothing more than advertising for the restaurants?
Message edited by: ZMonet on 2006-01-13 14:06:53 CST
ragaskar said:Call the restaurant before you buy gc or dine and ask if they accept GC's from restaurant.com
I see this tip a lot and it confuses me: are there restaurants that restaurant.com sells certificates to that aren't authorized by the restaurants or something? If they're on restaurant.com haven't they made some kind of agreement with the website?
It's a good idea to check the restaurant out, either through their website or by phone. I was going to buy a certificate to Laneez in San Francisco since we plan to visit the city. When I checked the restaurant website, I found that they've been closed down since October due to sewage water coming to the restaurant from a hotel nearby. I called couple weeks ago seeing their GC is still offered on restaurant.com to see if may be they reopened - but the phone number was disconnected. I guess if you know your local restaurants well, then it would not be a problem.
ragaskar said:Call the restaurant before you buy gc or dine and ask if they accept GC's from restaurant.com
I see this tip a lot and it confuses me: are there restaurants that restaurant.com sells certificates to that aren't authorized by the restaurants or something? If they're on restaurant.com haven't they made some kind of agreement with the website?
this happens quite a bit. I'll walk into a restaurant, and the scum owner will say they no longer accept the coupon. They may have changed their mind, or they no longer do business with restaurant.com but left the coupon on the site. They are not required to accept the coupon if they don't want to.
the 2 restaurants thast were closest to me that i used to use coupons at regularly both went OOB in less than 6 months after they were posted. sad but true.
5. Beware of restaurant.com's refund policy if you hold these for a long time and a restaurant closes or drops out of the program. You will be issued a credit for your purchase price, but not permitted to use a new coupon code to purchase a replacement. That $10 certificate that you purchase for $5 today will cost you another $5 to replace. Moral of the story...use them soon after you purchase them.
Respectuflly, I do not believe this is true. I had two certificates from to two different restaurants that went OOB, and R.COM simply replaced it with certificates of the same value to another restaurant. I think poster confused it with their policy that they won't allow you to use discount code twice.
I.e. you buy a $25 value cert for $10 and use 50% so you actually pay $5. Then say place goes oob and r.com gives you credit for the unused cert. So you basically get $10 credit (b/c that's how much another $25 cert would cost), but you won't be able to use 50% off again, and use the $10 credt to buy two certificates.
So in other words, if you hold a $25 value cert to a place that went oob, r.com will replace it with another $25 value certificate to any other place without any problem, but during replacement, you cannot use any additional discounts.
So it is fair, and no need to use certificate immediately.
Has anyone actually received smaller portions when using the GC? Just seems like urban legend. Actual food costs in a restaurant are really not that high to make a difference and they would potentially turn away a repeat customer.
Good idea PT! And thanks for the credit. So when someone has a code, they just post it in the QS?
Lonchik said:5. Beware of restaurant.com's refund policy if you hold these for a long time and a restaurant closes or drops out of the program. Respectuflly, I do not believe this is true... Tip #5 was added by another member. I personally have not run into this type of problem.
bh2006 said:Has anyone actually received smaller portions when using the GC? YMMV.
Respectuflly, I do not believe this is true. I had two certificates from to two different restaurants that went OOB, and R.COM simply replaced it with certificates of the same value to another restaurant. I think poster confused it with their policy that they won't allow you to use discount code twice.I am the author of tip #5. This happened to me as described twice, most recently last spring. Maybe RDC has changed the policy?
BTW, I have a topic alert set for restaurant.com. Putting all of the codes in this thread will break my topic alert by preventing me from receiving emails when new codes are issued!
None of these ever work anywhere in West Texas.. However, we are going to vegas and I picked up one of the 50% off at Ben and Jerrys ice cream. We will give it a try...
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nice try...
