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TOUCHDOWN is no longer valid. Haven't seen any notice here of codes since then. Thanks.
 

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Buy gift. Certificates

If you buy gift certificates when there is either an 80%off sale or 90you can bank in your account and use anytime.the few local restaurants we really like we will buy 10 or so vertigo atones and then just use as we want.if the rest
Goes out of business you can get a credit and use for something else.we have found some of the better rest. After awhile don't permit you to use promo codes and keep raising the fee to buy so getting the certs when cheapest is our strategy.
 

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If you buy gift certificates when there is either an 80%off sale or 90you can bank in your account and use anytime.the few local restaurants we really like we will buy 10 or so vertigo atones and then just use as we want.if the rest
Goes out of business you can get a credit and use for something else.we have found some of the better rest. After awhile don't permit you to use promo codes and keep raising the fee to buy so getting the certs when cheapest is our strategy.

Unfortunately now you can't buy the eGift Cards (generic ones) using a promo code that is more than 70% off.

We have bought restaurant specific certs with the 90% off sale and have had good success with restaurant.com converting them to a generic eGift Card when we said we weren't going to be able to use them. We did this for three or four certs we had bought to use on a trip to Hilton Head Island.
 

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New Code As Of 10/25/11

Now 80% off - use PUMPKIN
Happy dining to all!
Murph
 

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I have never used restaurant.com but on the today show, the had a deal for $30 for a $500 gift certificate. I am wondering what others think of this site. TODAYRESTAURANT is the coupon code. There are only a handful of restaurants that participate that we would go to and I think after you have this certificate you can go back into the site and request the actual restaurant to get a gc from until you use your $500 up?

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today for a week @25 for $1

Just go to the site.This happens only a few times a year.
 

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And you can buy the generic gc at 90% too. ($25 is $2.5), ($35 is $3.5), ($40 is $4)....:cheer: I'm stocking up.
 

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The site is down at the moment. Combination of Today Show and latest promo did them in.
 

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And you can buy the generic gc at 90% too. ($25 is $2.5), ($35 is $3.5), ($40 is $4)....:cheer: I'm stocking up.

That is a new version of 90% off. In that past a $25 cert would cost $10 regular, when it was 90% off it was only $1. If what you are posting is accurate, this 90% off is a worse deal than the 80% off deals. Still better than the 70% off that was the best one could do for eGift Cards (generic certs).
 

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That is a new version of 90% off. In that past a $25 cert would cost $10 regular, when it was 90% off it was only $1. If what you are posting is accurate, this 90% off is a worse deal than the 80% off deals. Still better than the 70% off that was the best one could do for eGift Cards (generic certs).

The costs of the certificates went up a couple of months ago.:(
If you purchase the $25 certificates for the specifics restaurants it's a $1, I prefer the generic ones so I can pick at my leasure which resturants I want.
 

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That is a new version of 90% off. In that past a $25 cert would cost $10 regular, when it was 90% off it was only $1. If what you are posting is accurate, this 90% off is a worse deal than the 80% off deals. Still better than the 70% off that was the best one could do for eGift Cards (generic certs).

And the last time they had the 90% off you weren't even able to purchase generic gc. You were only limited to purchasing specific restaurants. And if my memory serves me correctly, this is the 2nd time this year they have done the 90%, so for me I'm stocking up. IMO, it's still a good deal for a $75 gc that I can use on min purchase of $150 costs me $3 (90% off $30). With the 80% it's $6 a cert. Is my math incorrect?
 

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Has anyone else ordered one of the $500 egift cards for $30. Im just so weary that something is not right with this. But then, why would the Today show have this as a featured item? I know some will say its only $30, but I don't like to get suckered. :(

lee
 

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Has anyone else ordered one of the $500 egift cards for $30. Im just so weary that something is not right with this. But then, why would the Today show have this as a featured item? I know some will say its only $30, but I don't like to get suckered. :(

lee

The $500 is good toward $500 in face value gift cards. Since they often sell $25 certs for $2, it is really only a savings of $10 off of the regular 80% promos. $500 is 20 $25 certificates, that would be $40 at their 80% off promo. This is about pushing volume and getting people to commit to a $30 sale.

Edited to Add: You are better to use my trick mentioned in the next post to buy five $100 certificates for only $20 instead of $30.


An important thing to know about Restaurant.com certificates is that they are really more like a coupon than a gift card. They require a minimum spend. Some places you must spend $35 to use a $25 certificate. Others require a $50 spend to use a $25 cert. To use a $100 certificate you must spend $200, so you still have to pay $100 out of pocket. These are incentive coupons to get people in the door of the restaurants. The restaurants are not the cream of the crop. Sure there are some gems in there, but there is a reason they are heavily discounting, because they just are plain not good. After using some of these we have come out of the restaurant still feeling like we paid too much, even after the heavy discount.
 
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The costs of the certificates went up a couple of months ago.:(
If you purchase the $25 certificates for the specifics restaurants it's a $1, I prefer the generic ones so I can pick at my leasure which restaurants I want.

You are correct that the prices did go up a while ago. I did forget about that. But here is a trick. The cost of the $100 eGift Card is still $40 regular. This is the equivalent of $10 for a $25 cert at regular price. This is the old price of the $25 eGift Card. Use the promo code to pay only $4 for a $100 eGift Card. You don't have to use it all at once, the balance will decrease by the amount of each certificate you order through the gift redemption site. You just have to buy multiples of certifcates that equal $100 since you can't combine the balances of multiple certs for redemption.
 
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