Have you ever used restaurant.com? This deal I just got sounds too good to be true. Please tell me its legit!?

I just ordered my first discounted gift certificates for local restaurants from there. ( http://cobrand.restaurant.com/index.asp?… ) I have heard of the site before. They advertise on local radio (CT) and there was a link to it in my weekly email from "Borders Reward Perks." When I checked it out it showed what I expected... the certificates had restrictions and your bill had to come to a certain amount before you could put the certificate towards it and it sometims couldn't be weekend nights... that sort of thing. But when I clicked on a restaurant to see what it was going to charge me it calculated it at 80% off! I am a strong believer in the "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" theory, however, I ended up purchasing about 8 gift certificates for values from $10 - $25 dollars each and my total came to $7.60! Like I said, they have restrictions on them; for example I got 4 $10 gift certificates to one of my local pizza/grinder/Italian shops. They have to be used one at a time, only Sunday through Thursday and the bill has to be at least $20.00. That's completely do-able for a restaurant that I go to all the time. I ordered the certificates and was able to print them immediately and each has its own restrictions and its own Certificate/ID/Confirmation number (Whatever you want to call it). I am guessing this extreme discount was because it is the last day of the month but I'm not sure.



Has anyone used this site before? Did I just get scammed? (I'm assuming Borders Books Store would not promote a scam... right? Also it was a secure site and I confirmed it through the BBB. What do you think?



Thanks!Have you ever used restaurant.com? This deal I just got sounds too good to be true. Please tell me its legit!?
I've never used restaurants.com, but i have used other websites that have half off deals for various things...like for example, i bought tickets to go to midevil times in dallas for $25, when they're usually more than 50 bucks full price. They were selling a limited quantity and it was only for a limited time. They had the same thing for gift certificates for various restaurants. And I have heard of restaurants.com before....so it's legit.Have you ever used restaurant.com? This deal I just got sounds too good to be true. Please tell me its legit!?
No, I don't think you got scammed - i just think it is a lot of hype.



Basically - they are selling coupons with restrictions. Although they call it a "gift certificate" it's just an agreement for them to take so much money off your bill as long as you still purchase a certain amount of food from them.



It is kind of like the "discounts" offered throught the Entertainment books (or at least how they used to be)



It is a form of advertising for the restaurants involved. There are a number of restaurants around my town that are have deals with restaurants.com - but none of the really good or popular ones.



Like other coupons - if the restaurant is sold, they usually no longer honor the coupons.