Ends today. Restaurant.com is offering 80% off their certificates with coupon code ENJOY [Exp 10/12]. This reduces the price of their $25 Dining Certificates to $2 for most restaurants and areas. $25 Gift Cards are $3 with the code. Fine print applies, such as $35 minimum, dinner only, etc.
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Restaurant.com has made a revolutionary change in operations: they now claim to track for you exactly which coupons have been used! (Previously, they required the user to mark their list when coupons were used, or to track them entirely on one's own. Not much change for those who use these rarely, but a huge change for those whose retirement plans involve equal measures of restaurant.com coupons, free dinners for timeshare and annuity sales, and crashing weddings and funerals. I almost quit using the coupons after consistently finding several expired every month (and while the very nice people at restaurant.com sound like they would do almost anything to accommodate their customers, it has not been worth spending the phone-hold time to talk about a $2 coupon). Thanks to restaurant.com! Everybody, go buy lots of coupons now!
I recently bought coupons with a total value of $250, for restaurants we know and enjoy. I paid $25. They never expire, and work perfectly. HOWEVER, there are "conditions" - Monday-Thursday in some places, and the required dollar value of the entire check.
To fully use $50 certificates at our favorite steak house, we need a $100 tab before alcohol is applied. We simply go when we feel like steak & lobster, which is about a $50 meal. Our cost is half that... Voila!
To fully use a $25 cert at our favorite bbq restaurant requires a bill of $45. If there's three of us ordering ribs, etc., it works perfectly.
Overall, this is a very good deal though it requires a bit of thought to get the most out of it. But it gets even better. Restaurant.com does NINETY PERCENT discounts from time to time. This one is 80%.
#2 - Unless they have changed in the last days, the restaurant.com coupons expire one year after purchase except in certain states where disallowed - I believe CA was one. Where are you located? I do not know how the new federal regs on gift card expirations will apply, if at all - or maybe they changed that, too, for the better. They had even claimed to me that the expiration time was down to the hour, so when they were printed as bought on July 1, 1999, say, at noon, they could not be used for dinner on July 1, 2000 - which was confusing.
The 80% deals are frequent, the 90% not so much - but what is even better is when they do an 80% deal in midmonth but reload the restaurant offer limits so the most popular restaurants are available again; they usually get grabbed up within hours on the first of each month.
Restaurant.com seems a very easy company to do business with. The only problems I ever have are with restaurants which either drop their relationship and suddenly will not honor their prepaid coupons, or, more often, those which change their offer from, say, $25 off $35 to $25 off $50 and want the deal to be retroactively effective, notwithstanding the prepaid coupon terms. Still, these are rare: I use several a month and have few problems. I still do prefer the free timesharing offer dinners, though. I've got two postacards for those deals just today!
I wouldn't count on the 90% off deals as they have only appeared a few times and usually at the end of the month when there aren't many coupons left. But, hey, cheap stingy b@stards like to save that extra buck!