Can anyone recommend a good NYC bar on restaurant.com?

70% Discount!!
 

New Promo Code: WOW
Expires: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Discount: 70% (Get $25 certs for $3.00)

NOTE: This is the largest discount I've seen in years!! Might want to load up now.

ALSO: If you are a member of Fat Wallet (www.fatwallet.com) you can get up to 10% of the discounted price as a rebate.

LivingSocial also has a deal for a $200ecert for $40. Not having bought the ecert before, will I be able to stack that along with the "WOW" deal?

http://t.https://m.livingsocial.com/...m_source=blast

Will you be able to split the $200 into multiple cards? Most places on the site don't offer a $200 dollar card in Austin.

I guess that was kind if my question, I just worded it poorly. Buying the $200ecert will give you a $200 credit on The restaurant.com site to purchase individual gift certificates. My question is whether when using the ececrt money you are able to apply a coupon code on top of it.

i.e. Spend $40 for the ecert and then purchase 16 $100 gift certificates (with a corresponding 80% code) which would leave you $8 leftover from the ecert.

I don't think you understand how the certs are priced.

Normally a $25 (face value) cert costs $10, so if you're buying $200 (face value) in certs at that rate you'd expect to pay $80. Getting it for $40 would seem to be a 50% reduction, similar to what is offered periodically.

If you're asking whether you could have used the now-expired WOW 70% reduction on the $40 price, my guess would be no, since you are supposedly allowed to use only one code per purchase.

However, I'm not sure. Next time you get a similar offer, check to see if there's another reduction being offered in the same timeframe (e.g., by looking here on FlyerTalk to see if one is posted), and give it a try by tryng to enter that code at the appropriate place in the order. If the order accepts it and re-prices, great; if it refuses to accept the code, you'll know the answer.

Either way, you should know before you have to commit to the transaction, so there's no downside risk in trying.

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EDITED TO ADD: Your link in the #1293 message doesn't work. Try this link.

Two points. First, note the fine print at the asterisk that says "discount may not be combined with any other offer or promotion" so I suspect that answers the question of whether you can further discount the $40 price.

Secondly, it's pretty clear from the description that what you're buying is not an actual $200 "credit" to be used to "purchase" certificates, but rather a $200 face value certificate that can be broken down into lesser face values (e.g., if you use the $200 cert to get a $25 face value cert that would normally cost $10, the remaining value of your $200 cert is now $175 -- $200 minus $25 -- not $190).

New Promo Code: SPICY
Expires: Monday, October 6, 2014 - ONE DAY ONLY
Discount: 50% (Get $25 certs for $5.00)

New Promo Code: FAST
Expires: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - ONE DAY ONLY
Discount: 60% (Get $25 certs for $4.00)

New Promo Code: MOBILE
Expires: Saturday, October 11, 2014 - MOBILE ONLY
Discount: 40% (Get $25 certs for $6.00)

New Promo Code: PUMPKIN (PUNKIN is also mentioned in case PUMPKIN doesn't work)
Expires: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Discount: 60% (Get $25 certs for $4.00)

New Promo Code: NEW
Expires: Friday, October 17, 2014 - ONE DAY ONLY
Discount: 40% (Get $25 certs for $6.00)

New Promo Code: BEST
Expires: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - ONE DAY ONLY
Discount: 50% (Get $25 certs for $5.00)

New Promo Code: TREAT
Expires: Friday, October 24, 2014 - MOBILE ONLY
Discount: 50% (Get $25 certs for $5.00)

Restaurant.com use to always have specials for 80% off...or $5 for $25 gift certificates.

They usually have restrictions that you need to spend double the coupon amount. IE $50 spending limit for $25 off coupon.

In realty you are looking at probably <40% off total bill

Example
Total Bill $50
Coupon -25
Coupon 5
Tip 18% 4.5
Total 29.5 (40% off)

It's not bad, but make sure you don't go over the min spending requirement or else you won't be saving as much. Only down fall is that not many restaurants participate near me.

Make sure to always ask if the restaurant will honor the coupon BEFORE ordering, as I have 2 experience where the restaurant denied the coupon as they stated that it was a horrible program. At least if a restaurant refuse to honor you can contact restaurant.com and they will give you code for ordering similar value coupon on another restaurant. (I have about 7-8 exchange codes lying around, and another handful of coupons not yet used, I guess that is how they make money)

A couple of comments:

Restaurant.com's normal price is $10 for a $25 certificate (or $2 for a $5 certificate or $4 for a $10 certificate, etc.). When we say the certificates are 60% off, we mean the 60% discount is from the normal price of $10, not from the $25 face value of the certificate. Sorry for the confusion.

You are absolutely correct that many certificates have a required minimum purchase, and that in order to maximize your savings you shouldn't get much above that minimum. You're also correct that some restaurants have refused to honor the certificates, but that usually means they have opted out of the program and you have a certificate that was issued while they were still in the program. Certificates no longer have expiration dates, so you should always show the waiter the certificate at the time of ordering and make sure the restaurant (still) takes them.

It is a bargain if you find a restaurant you like that is in the program, and also a price incentive for trying a new restaurant (reducing the risk).

Oh, one last thought: Generally one is expected to tip based on the price on the tab before the certificate is deducted. After all, the waiter isn't the entity issuing the certificate, and he or she did the same amount of work whether the certificate is used or not.