Don’t know exactly how to title this post, because I don’t want to piss off the Groupon Gods, but there are so many deals floating around you have to stay sharp. Seems so many of the same businesses drift from one site (with one price) to another (with a slightly different price), so how do you know what to do?
My advice is to ALWAYS check Restaurant.com to see if a place is part of their roster of restaurants before forking over cash on another deal site. While a half-off voucher is great (and it might very well be), the restaurant.com voucher will be priced at only 2-3 bucks for that same $25 certificate (never pay the crazy $10 rate) and it will never expire.
So the Restaurant.com never expires? I thought it expired 1 year from the date purchased. Is the “never expires” thing new? I bought mine in Dec 2009. I assumed that I lost my money, but if not ……. this is GOOD news to me.
Do you know if they are strict on the “minimum party of 2” requirement?
Thanks.
“Restaurant.com Gift Certificates do not expire. ” This is from their own site. The best way to check is to go to the site and check out your account (you needed one to get the certificate originally, right? – If you can’t find anything, call customer service. They’re very nice.). You should see what certificates you have/used. Until it’s redeemed by the restaurant, it shows up as open in your account. Until fairly recently, it was up to you to mark us used, but now they take care of all that. If a restaurant drops the program or closes, restaurant.com sends you an email saying that they transferred the value of that certificate into a gift certificate in your account. Seriously, this is a can’t lose proposition.
The “minimum party of 2” must be a requirement of the restaurant you selected. If you don’t want that restriction, call customer service and either have the gift certificate transferred to another restaurant without those restrictions or place it in your account as a gift certificate (blank), where it will rest until you decide on some place.
Thanks, I’m pretty sure that the coupon that I printed out said “expires in 1 year” and the “minimum of 2” was nor advertised but that was part of the terms which is why I never got around to using it(was a different palate that I wanted to try). I wonder if things have changed in the last year(got it in Dec 2009).
I was really surprised by your post mentioning “never expires” so I figured I ask you to confirm. I’ll call customer service to straighten this all out.