Restaurant.com

Restaurant.com offers discounts on dining.  They could do this on a very straightforward basis, but my experience was that they don't.  When I logged on recently (circa 2010) I found an offer for a restaurant we were going to visit that evening. It was a $50 certificate for $25. That would be a 50% discount which was right up my alley. After paying for it (and not paying attention as closely as I should have) I checked the actual certificate and found it required a $100 purchase. This is not the type of restaurant where it is easy to spend $100, so that really wasn't workable. I called and a nice young lady offered to make an adjustment for me, which she did. I then went back online and attempted to purchase a $25 certificate. This was not available using the "code" I was given for the refund. I could only purchase this item as a "new" customer - not with this code. Then I started doing the math (and this is why you need to learn math in school, boys and girls). The $25 certificate requires a $50 purchase. That means I would pay $17.50 to Restaurant.com for essentially a $7.50 "discount." Since I'm required to make a $50 purchase that means the actual $7.50 "discount" works out to a whopping 15%. Needless to say, I won't be a Restaurant.com customer in the future.