eBay with northyork has $100 Restaurant.com Dining Gift Certificates for $6.45 with free shipping. Can be used to purchase four $25 gift certificates or any other combination; does not need to be used all at once. Restrictions such as minimum purchase, required gratuity, dinner only, etc vary by restaurant.
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This is sounding more like an infinitely sustainable business plan every day.
May I point out that there's a company on late-nite TV that offers many desirable high-end products for pennies on the dollar? You can get an iPad for $0.91, a Dodge Charger for $12.61-9/10ths, and a "famous national monument" for nearly a hundred bucks. These financial mavens are likely looking at Obama using his second term to redefine wealth and power into the hands of Whomever Has The Least Money, and hedging against that by burning the stuff.
Generally you can only use $10 (amount could be more or less) per location, per month, with a "minimum purchase", yes they disclose you can't use multiple discount coupons even if you have a "separate check" or "sit at a separate table" AKA yes this deal is a waste of time.
"AKA yes this deal is a waste of time."
Except that it's not, at all. I just used a Restaurant.com coupon at a local Mexican place tonight and I payed $11 out of pocket for a $35 dinner. Though they do add the 18% gratuity in there and then hope you tip on top of your out of pocket, but that is up to the individual.
My girlfriend and I love these things. It lets us rotate through some of our favorite restaurants once a week and not have to pay some exorbitant bill for wanting a date night.
Also, the required total, at least for the restaurants we use, allow for tax and their gratuity. e x + .0925x + .18x >= 35.
This is a scam.... the gift cert. if NOT for Restaurant.com, but for TheIdealMeal.com. Much different selection, and very misleading
Poster #1 - I do not know what late-night advertisers you refer to, but one true scam is in the phony 'auction houses' which advertise very low prices as current bids, but unlike eBay, charge a fee per bid, and keep the sales open as long as there is activity. So, naturally, the site bids a penny or so just as each auction is about to close. Even if, unlikely, you do win the item, your bid fees will have eaten all the savings. At least one state AG has addressed these sites.
As to restaurant.com, I can say only good about the company and its products. I have used many dozens of their coupons myself - my wife and I now joing another couple to use these for weekly dining, and we often use another ourselves - and my R.c account shows about 90 more available for my use. I use these for family
travel; I even give these to tradesmen for minor services such as providing the free estimate they offer. In recent years R.c has discontinued expirations of their coupons, and now manages them for users: the account page lists only unused certificates, to readily show which are still available. A few restaurants do impose an 18% gratuity - sometimes silently (shameful!) - but here in the DC area most do not. The company has always been ready to exchange credit for unused certificates at request, although they do not have to do this, and has even often notified me before I found out myself when a restuarant for which I have a coupon has closed up or discontinued participation (offering me gift certificates instead, for full face value).
Also: thoughts on Restaurant.com gift certificates.
The gift certificates typically in higher denominations do have some advantages even though certificates for individual restaurants can typically be purchased at monthly sales (if you are on their mailing list) for as little as $2 for $25 value. The $100 certificate, for example, is good for four $25 certificates to any participating restaurant, so if the certificate is purchased cheaply this allows cheap access to coupons for the very popular venues which sell out at full list price (typically $10 for $25 value) if your trigger finger is quick enough. (Restaurants set a quota for coupon sales, typically replenished on the first of each month.) Moreover, although I have not tried it yet, I will assume that these can be used at the hoighty venues which do not allow sales of their coupons to be discounted from the R.c set list price. (That is, a discounted gift certificate is probably not a discounted certificate!)
I have used these as recently as last week for a new Sandwich shop that opened and have used them for years. It really is a savings. Even when I go on vacation, I punch in the zip code of my destination and buy a couple certificates for nearby places and save quite a bit of money. My wife and I have tried many new restaurants that we probably wouldn't have gone too if it weren't for these certificates. I could tell you a great story about a trip to a great steakhouse in Myrtle Beach after a full day drinking at the pool (still in our swimwear) but suffice to say, we absolutely chowed down that night.