Restaurant.com is not a scam, it's the few small restaurant owners
restaurant.com is not a scam It's the few restaurant owners that give it a bad experience for a few consumers. Instead of paying for traditional advertising, owners allow a discount on their meals. You agree to let restaurant.com advertise your business and for them to keep whatever c...

Be alerted!!! www.restaurant.com and www.shoppingessentialsplus.com, two dirty websites
So I purchased some giftcards from www.restaurant.com. Almost immediately, www.shoppingessentialsplus.com sent email about some registration of membership. It also threatened to charge me with so called membership fee. I called restaurant.com, some manager told me that restaurant.com is so...

Gift Certificates
HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE.

What a great deal. Give someone a Restaurant.com gift card so they can pick a restaurant and go out for dinner on you... EXCEPT, they will still have to pay to cover the minimum to be able to use the certificate. Advertised as a great gift with ...

Scam
This company sells $25 gift certificates for restaurants at a fraction of that price. Problem is, if the restaurant goes out of business before you can use your certificate, they refuse you a refund.

Also, if the restaurant doesn't honor the certificate, the restaurant....

Hidden expenses & restaurant denies coupon
Hidden expenses not shown until you pay for and print the online coupon. I had to type out what is on my certificate so that others can see BEFORE they make a purchase from Restaurants.com. They sure do not make it easy for you.
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Bad service
The day before my aniversary I decided to buy my husband a gift certificate from Restaurant.com, paid right away $40 and my aniversary was ruined, had to tell my husband I have bought something that did not arrive (nov 15), as his birthday was yesterday, though at least would be able to us...

Unauthorized purchases with my credit card
I am writing about restaurant.com and the scam they are doing to custmers who purchase gift certicates on their site. It is unethical, and they are doing it for ecomomic gain without your consent.
When you purchase a gift certificate, you are unwillingly letting them sign you up fo...

poor online experience
Restaurant.com is a great service if their site worked properly. For a business that's solely online you'd think that they would invest in some good servers and a functional site, but I guess not. Agreed with all that they absolutely do not answer your email, I sometimes wonder i...

Scam and unauthorized charges!
In July 2007, I signed up for a coupon on restaurant.com to a restaurant near where I work. In JANUARY, Shopping Essentials Plus (an on-line shopping site of some kind) began charging my credit card for some type of membership fee for some type of services I never knew about and never requ...

Terrible place
I have emailed them and reported them to the BBB. They are a scam. I purchased a $100 certificate and then had to spend $200, plus buy the certificate, total would have been $140 for $200 restaurant bill. That is worse than a 50% off Entertainment coupon. But the restaurant wouldn't h...

FRAUD
I ordered 6 certificates thru this web site for our trip to South Texas. We were able to use 1 of them. When I bought them I had no idea that we could only use 1 per month and that we had to spend $150.00 to use the $75.00 certificate. This I must say is a huge rip off and I have learned m...

unauthorized use of account
Cancelled within two dayson site and by phone. Still charged $40.00 to my account. I am reporting thses people to the state attorney general.

buyer bewart
You guys don't know how Restaurant.com works. I'll explain it from the standpoint of someone who owns a restaurant and works directly with them. Restaurant.com sells the Gift Certificates and keeps all of the money from said sale. Restaurant.com 'sells' their program to...

Scam
What a scam...they advertise great deals on restaurant gift certificates - like $4 for a $25 restaurant gift certificate - and they show you quite a selection of name brand and "heard of" restaurants..so you fall for it..and buy one. THEN you see ALL of the EXCLUSIONS...CAN'...

Rejected certificates
Restaurant.com certificates used to be a great way to save money. Sure, you must read the fine print. A minimum purchase is required and many have specific days that are blacked out. It has saved me some money, however I have had several certificates refused at the restaurant. They've...

Certificates
I am really surprised to see so many complaints about Restaurant.com. I have purchased dozens of certificates from them and never had a problem. We have gone to many new places we would have never tried without the coupon. I have never had a restaurant reject the coupon. I was able to see ...

Consumer Fraud
They offer discount certificates for restaurants. I bought three $25 certificates for a local restaurant which I like (Regatta Bar & Grill in Syracuse, NY). It provided a $25 discount; I only needed to spend $35 to qualify for the discount each time. We tried to used one of the certifi...

Big Scam
Beware of items you might be buying that offer a discount card from restaurant.com. They are a big SCAM..coupons offered for you favorite restaurant on there site...that says...more coupons coming on the 1st. of the month is an outright lie! The coupons will never be offered...so your gift...

scam
Scam! Scam! Scam! I got a gift card to Restaurant.com with a purchase from Abe's of Maine. With the card, I purchased 3 discount coupons for 3 different restaurants. The first time I tried to use one, I was informed that they didn't deal with the company any more, but would still...

Customer Service
I have been ordering from Restaurant.com for the past several months and have enjoyed the savings at various local restaurants. For the recent holiday, however, I ordered 20 general gift certificates from this company and it has been a disaster ever since. When one of the recipients printe...

Huge Scam - Stay Away
This is a huge scam. Don't buy anything "certificates" from this website. They are not certificates, they are "coupons". You can only use ONE coupon per month per purchase and each purchase has to be a certain amount. I didn't find out the ONE coupon per month...

scam
We signed up with Restaurant.com about a month ago under false pretenses. A representative from their company came into our restaurant and reassured us that we were making the right decision to sign up. First, she promised alot of advertising and exposure but all we got were 2 little pictu...

fraudulent practices and fraudulent billing practices
I live in Atlanta, GA. I ordered two restaurant gift certificates from restaurant.com
The first gift certificate I ordered was on June 9, 2009. Subsequently, charges of $14.95 have appeared as "Shopess Plus" on my credit card statements on 7/10/09, 8/9/09, 9/8/09, and 10/8...

Fraudulent/deceptive ways
hi,
I bought 4 gift certificates worth 25$ each at restaurant.com valid only online through mrsfields.com. It was on a sunday, so I couldn't inquire either of them (restaurant.com or mrsfields.com) about the expiry and the minimum order. I came to know about the fraud after I...

Buyers beware, they are shysters!
Restaurant.com, Shysters!!!

I was overcharged for certificates I purchased. I've made several attempts to get in touch by email or phone.

They won't answer emails or pick-up phone... Shysters!

Buyers Beware, they are SHYSTERS!!!